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Services to millions of people collapse as USAID cuts contracts worldwide

News / 27th March 2025

U.S.-funded projects worldwide, including those providing lifesaving care for millions of people, have received termination notices sending shockwaves across the global aid community.

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Stopping Israel’s war in Gaza

Article / 24th March 2025

On 18 March, Israel resumed bombing Gaza, upending a two-month ceasefire. Returning to war promises little but more death and destruction, explains the International Crisis Group.

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Children, refugees pay hefty price of global aid funding crisis

News / 24th March 2025

Children, refugees and displaced people worldwide are paying the price for the deep-seated funding crisis that has engulfed the international aid sector, made worse by pronounced cuts in Washington, the UN children’s report. 

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Hunger skyrockets by nearly 80 percent in Eastern and Southern Africa over past five years amidst worsening water crisis

Report / 20th March 2025

The climate crisis has dramatically worsened water scarcity in Eastern and Southern Africa over the past few decades, leaving nearly 116 million people without safe drinking water.

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Humanitarian system at breaking point as funding cuts force life-or-death choices

News / 13th March 2025

The UN’s top relief official has warned that the humanitarian system has reached breaking point, with funding cuts forcing life-or-death decisions over which aid programmes to sustain or shut down.

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Faith leaders blast GOP’s attacks on poor and tax cuts for the rich

Report / 6th March 2025

Faith leaders came together in Washington, D.C. to share an open letter and report calling out efforts by Republicans in Congress to rip resources away from the working class to fund tax giveaways for the ultrarich.

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A landmark recognition of tax and human rights

Blog / 3rd March 2025

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has just issued a much-awaited and historic statement: for the first time, it explicitly recognises that states must tackle inequality and guarantee rights through fair tax policies. 

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UK aid cuts are a symptom of our broken economic model

Article / 28th February 2025

Aid agencies across the UK are reeling from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s surprise announcement this week to increase military spending at the expense of foreign aid, writes Maxine Betteridge-Moes.

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Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it

Article / 18th February 2025

Measures to address world hunger must start with its known causes and proven policies, not just 'moonshot' technological innovations, writes Jennifer Clapp.

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Shutting down USAID threatens to endanger world’s poorer nations

Article / 13th February 2025

The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US government’s primary channel for humanitarian aid and disaster relief, is expected to have a devastating impact on the world’s developing nations, writes Thalif Deen.

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