Global aid cuts strip 1M women and girls of essential services

Aid cuts across the globe have cost 1 million women and girls access to support at a time when demand for services is “at historic levels.” UN Women says 84% of women’s organizations report rising demand, and nearly nine in 10 can no longer meet current levels of need. “The women’s organizations at risk of being shut down are on the frontlines of the world’s most severe humanitarian crisis,” UN Women Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp says, citing Afghanistan, the Democrat Republic of the Congo and Haiti as particularly dangerous places. “Every dollar withdrawn from women’s organizations is a dollar withdrawn from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, displaced mothers, girls forced from school and communities struggling to survive.” UN women says sustained investment in women’s organizations as first responders is critical as cuts continue.