After a 90 -day suspension of all foreign aid ordered by the Trump administration, UN agencies have begun to reduce their global aid operations.
The head of the United Nations Refugee Agency, Philippo Grandi, who is responsible for helping 122 million people displaced from their homes in 136 countries, sent an email overnight to cost. The clip was ordered. In addition to the emergency, 90 days delay, in addition to the emergency, renting and freezing the contract and withholding all international air travel, as the agency seeks to adopt US funding.
The new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has claimed that the US will not describe freezing life -saving support as “basic medicine, medical services, food, asylum, provision and supply”, and aid in it. Programs are focused. Abortion, family planning or “gender theory”. However, the initial effects of frozen immediately eliminated humanitarian aid throughout the board and all over the world.
The majority of most UN agencies and other international aid organizations have been affected, Grandi said. Worldwide, humanitarian aid programs have been forced to fire staff and reduce operations after an extraordinary US funding suspension by Trump, which reviews all aid programs. The allies of Israel and Egypt are exempt only emergency food programs and military assistance.
In his all -staff email, Grandi said: “We must go very carefully in the next few weeks to reduce the impact of the uncertainty of this funding to refugees and homeless people, on their actions and their teams. “”
“These steps will help us handle our resources while we visit this challenging period,” he added. “What is clear is that more than ever, we should continue to perform the effects and performance of our work.”
F -fifth of the agency’s total budget, according to the latest data from 2024, provided UNHCR to B2BN (49 2.49bn) to the fund.
Rubio ordered Trump’s financing suspension has come at a time when World War II has been forced from the homes of World War II through war or unrest, either refugees outside their country’s boundaries. Countries
“For a long time, the United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy have not been compatible with US interests, and in many cases, the State Department spokesman, Temy Bruce, said. “” He said that he works to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries, which are directly upsetting to the internal and stable relations between the countries of the countries.
“The American people have called for the elimination of policies that have long been harmed to our nation and are expected to return to comansis measures and priorities. Bruce added that it is now time.
The Trump administration tried to create an unconfirmed relief program that marks the cost of aid to send “Gaza to a condom”.
At a press conference on Tuesday, White House spokesman Karoline Levit said: “Without providing evidence of the program, there were $ 50 million taxpayers to go out of the door for funds for condoms in Gaza “This is a funny waste of taxpayers. So focusing on this pause, being a good steward of the tax dollar, whether it affects food on the wheels or head start or disaster aid.
The Trump administration on Monday kept about 60 60 senior officials in the US Agency for International Development (USAD), suspected that they were helping to freeze humanitarian organizations.
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The agency’s acting administrator, Jason Gray, earlier wrote in an email by his Chief Information Officer, Jason Gray, earlier that his Chief Information Office Dux Development News Agency. “As a result, we have kept several USAID employees with full salary and benefits at administrative departure as long as we complete our analysis of these measures.”
“The recipient should stop all work on the program and no new expenses should be spent after effective date, a copy of the US stopwork order seen by the Guardian told a European grant. [of 24 January]. The recipient has to cancel maximum outstanding responsibilities.
Current and former USAID officials have warned that stopwork orders around the world may pose a life -threatening risk to millions, especially if together with natural catastrophe like earthquakes or floods.
“If there is a tropical storm that collides with the Cox’s market tomorrow, how will you save all of these people, and then how will you rebuild if you have a stop work order?” Referring to the city of Bangladesh, where more than one million Rohingya refugees are living, said a former senior USAID official. “You sit for 90 days sitting and sitting and waiting for what you can wait for? That’s what is more upset.”
On Tuesday, the Foreign Department said it would investigate “tremendous funding” in which Gaza funded the International Medical Corps, 102,236,000, to fund institutional contractors at the Gender Development Office, 16,840,876 and $ 612,000 for technical support for family planning in Latin America.
In the first days of the Trump administration, a clean move is causing a growing friction with US allies. At the UN Security Council on Tuesday, the French envoy condemned the Israeli government’s ban on the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA – which the Trump administration has strongly supported. –
“The UNRWA is not a reliable alternative. UNRWA plays an essential human -friendly role, but it also provides public services. And it does this in one -third of the cost of other UN agencies, “said Nicholas de Ravier.
“The Gaza Strip should be part of the Palestinian state in the future,” said De Revenue, said De Revenue, a day later, a day after Gaza’s transfer to Egypt or Jordan. He added that Saudi Arabia and France will host an international conference in New York in June to seek a two -state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
