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	Democratic institutions offer the best framework for addressing social injustices by PBS, Education International, agencies   June 2025   On 1 May 1925, with Benito Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced his fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories – scientists, philosophers, writers and artists – took a stand in support of the essential tenets of a free society: the rule of law, personal liberty and independent thinking, culture, art and science.   Their open defiance against the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology – at great personal risk – proved that opposition was not only possible, but necessary. Today, 100 years later, the threat of fascism is back – and so we must summon that courage and defy it again.   Fascism emerged in Italy a century ago, marking the advent of modern dictatorship. Within a few years, it spread across Europe and the world, taking different names but maintaining similar forms.   Wherever it seized power, it undermined the separation of powers in the service of autocracy, silenced opposition through violence, took control of the press, halted the advancement of women’s rights and crushed workers’ struggles for economic justice.   Inevitably, it permeated and distorted all institutions devoted to scientific, academic and cultural activities. Its cult of death exalted imperial aggression and genocidal racism, triggering the second world war, the Holocaust, the death of tens of millions of people and crimes against humanity.   At the same time, the resistance to fascism and the many other fascist ideologies became a fertile ground for imagining alternative ways of organising societies and international relations. The world that emerged from the second world war – with the charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the theoretical foundations of the EU and the legal arguments against colonialism – remained marked by deep inequalities.   Yet, it represented a decisive attempt to establish an international legal order: an aspiration toward global democracy and peace, grounded in the protection of universal human rights, including not only civil and political, but also economic, social and cultural rights.   Fascism never vanished, but for a time it was held at bay. However, in the past two decades, we have witnessed a renewed wave of far-right movements, often bearing unmistakably fascist traits: attacks on democratic norms and institutions, a reinvigorated nationalism laced with racist rhetoric, authoritarian impulses and systematic assaults on the rights of those who do not fit a manufactured traditional authority, rooted in religious, sexual and gender normativity.   These movements have re-emerged across the globe, including in long-standing democracies, where widespread dissatisfaction with political failure to address mounting inequalities and social exclusion has once again been exploited by new authoritarian figures.   True to the old fascist script, under the guise of an unlimited popular mandate, these figures undermine national and international rule of law, targeting the independence of the judiciary, the press, institutions of culture, higher education and science, even attempting to destroy essential data and scientific information.   They fabricate “alternative facts” and invent “enemies within”; they weaponise security concerns to entrench their authority and that of the ultra-wealthy 1%, offering privileges in exchange for loyalty.   This process is now accelerating, as dissent is increasingly suppressed through arbitrary detentions, threats of violence, deportations and an unrelenting campaign of disinformation and propaganda, operated with the support of traditional and social media barons – some merely complacent, others openly techno-fascist enthusiasts.   Democracies are not flawless: they are vulnerable to misinformation and they are not yet sufficiently inclusive. However, democracies by their nature provide fertile ground for intellectual and cultural progress and therefore always have the potential to improve.   In democratic societies, human rights and freedoms can expand, the arts flourish, scientific discoveries thrive and knowledge grow. They grant the freedom to challenge ideas and question power structures, propose new theories even when culturally uncomfortable, which is essential to human advancement.   Democratic institutions offer the best framework for addressing social injustices, and the best hope to fulfil the post-war promises of the rights to work, education, health, social security, participation in cultural and scientific life, and the collective right of peoples to development, self-determination and peace.   Without this, humanity faces stagnation, growing inequality, injustice and catastrophe, not least from the existential threat caused by the climate emergency that the new fascist wave negates.   In our hyper-connected world, democracy cannot exist in isolation. As national democracies require strong institutions, international cooperation relies on the effective implementation of democratic principles and multilateralism to regulate relations among nations, and on multistakeholder processes to engage a healthy society.   The rule of law must extend beyond borders, ensuring that international treaties, human rights conventions and peace agreements are respected. While existing global governance and international institutions require improvement, their erosion in favor of a world governed by raw power, transactional logic and military might is a regression to an era of colonialism, suffering and destruction.   As in 1925, we scientists, philosophers, writers, artists and citizens of the world have a responsibility to denounce and resist the resurgence of fascism in all its forms. We call on all those who value democracy to act:   Defend democratic, cultural and educational institutions. Call out abuses of democratic principles and human rights. Refuse pre-emptive compliance.   Join collective actions, locally and internationally. Boycott and strike when possible. Make resistance impossible to ignore and costly to repress.   Uphold facts and evidence. Foster critical thinking and engage with your communities on these grounds.   This is an ongoing struggle. Let our voices, our work and our principles be a bulwark against authoritarianism. Let this message be a renewed declaration of defiance.   Nobel laureates: Eric Maskin, Roger B Myerson, Alvin E Roth, Lars Peter Hansen, Oliver Hart, Daron Acemoglu, Wolfgang Ketterle, John C Mather, Brian P Schmidt, Michel Mayor, Takaaki Kajita, Giorgio Parisi, Pierre Agostini, Joachim Frank, Richard J Roberts, Leland Hartwell, Paul Nurse, Jack W Szostak, Edvard I Moser, May-Britt Moser, Harvey James Alter, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Barry James Marshall, Craig Mello, Charles Rice   Leading scholars on fascism and democracy: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Claudia Koonz, Mia Fuller, Giovanni De Luna and Andrea Mammone.   http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/nobel-laureates-fascism http://stopreturnfascism.org/ http://zenodo.org/records/15696097 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/millions-turn-out-nationwide-for-no-kings-protests-against-trump-administration http://www.ei-ie.org/en/item/29988:educators-families-and-activists-unite-against-trump-policies-in-one-of-the-largest-demonstrations-in-us-history http://www.nokings.org/watch http://www.nokings.org/next http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr-ryan/our-work/carr-ryan-commentary/one-governments-efforts-dismantle-accountability http://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/trump-checks-balances.html http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/29/us-authoritarian-donald-trump-national-guard http://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-condemns-president-trumps-threats-to-use-the-military-in-cities-across-the-country http://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab http://www.ucs.org/resources/science-and-democracy-under-siege http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/07/17/trump-budget-appropriations-spending-plan/ http://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trials-of-the-trump-administration/tracking-trump-administration-litigation Visit the related web page
	Foreign Aid cuts threaten human rights globally by Amnesty International USA, MSF, agencies   July 2025   Six Months into his Presidency, Donald Trump has Created a Global Humanitarian Catastrophe, writes Olivier De Schutter - United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.   As the UN’s independent expert on poverty, I am no stranger to harrowing statistics. But few numbers have shaken me like those emerging in the wake of the Trump administration’s suspension of U.S. foreign aid. According to new estimates published in The Lancet, these funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths by 2030, a third of them young children.   These deaths will not be the result of droughts, earthquakes, pandemics, or war. They will be the direct consequence of a single, lethal decision made by one of the wealthiest men to ever walk this planet.   On his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump handed a death sentence to millions of people. Hours after taking office on January 20, 2025, he signed Executive Order 14169, ordering a pause on billions of dollars of foreign aid under the guise of a “90-day review” to ensure aid was aligned with his “America First” approach.   Six months later, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been dissolved, and the entirety of America’s global humanitarian aid workforce will be terminated over the summer. The findings of the “review” have not been published.   Until the U.S. State Department releases a full assessment report, one can only conclude that the decisions to suspend foreign aid and subsequently dismantle USAID were made in an environment of zero transparency, zero accountability, and with no clear justification for a decision that will ultimately cost millions of lives.   What was billed as a temporary policy reassessment has transformed over the first half of 2025 into a full-blown humanitarian emergency. Estimates put the death toll since the aid freeze was announced at nearly 350,000 people—more than 200,000 of them children. All of these deaths were entirely preventable.   USAID and additional cuts to the UN and its agencies mean the UN faces the gravest threat to its existence in its 80-year history. UNFPA, the UN's reproductive health agency, estimates 32 million people will lose access to its services. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, warns that 12.8 million displaced people are at risk of losing life-saving health interventions. The International Organization for Migration projects 10 million migrants and internally displaced people will miss out on emergency assistance.   We are numbed by numbers. “One death is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic,” the saying goes. But these are our fellow humans—right now—suffering and dying. Children refused food. Refugees denied life-saving care after fleeing the horrors of war. Mothers bleeding to death during childbirth. All because the United States, once the backbone of the global humanitarian system, has suddenly turned off the tap.   America has abandoned the fight against poverty. But what does it mean to put America first while letting children elsewhere starve to death? The retreat may feel politically convenient, but the consequences will not stay confined to distant borders. When food systems collapse, migration spikes. When vaccines are cut off, disease spreads. When aid disappears, conflict grows. There is no version of global instability in which the U.S. remains unscathed.   No other country is stepping in to fill the void left by the United States. On the contrary, many are following suit, redirecting money once earmarked for life-saving development programmes—initiatives that ultimately build a safer, more stable world–towards defense spending.   These decisions are not just budgetary shifts; they represent a fundamental threat to multilateralism and the international rules-based order that has kept the world from the brink of world war for well over half a century.   The question now facing other world leaders is stark: will they continue to capitulate to Trump’s unilateralism, or will they stand up and defend multilateralism and international solidarity, including financial support, as our only safeguard against chaos, endless conflict, and unnecessary human suffering?   http://www.srpoverty.org/2025/07/18/common-dreams-opinion-six-months-into-his-presidency-trump-has-created-a-global-humanitarian-catastrophe/ http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext http://www.unicefusa.org/press/statement-unicef-usa-president-and-ceo-michael-j-nyenhuis-vote-approving-proposed-rescissions   Aid cuts leaving millions without support, by Jan Egeland. (Norwegian Refugee Council)   “Cuts in aid from major donors are close to crippling the humanitarian response in some of the world’s most dire displacement crises. It is hard to articulate the depth of donors’ abandonment. Compared to this point last year, just two-thirds of the humanitarian funding has been received, which itself was dramatically lower than the previous year,” said Jan Egeland, Secretary General of NRC. “These cuts are costing lives and must be reversed.”   As of the end of June, 6 billion US Dollars have been provided globally for the humanitarian response, down from 9 billion US Dollars at the same point in 2024. In total, 44 billion US Dollars has been requested for 2025.   Last month the United Nations announced a ‘hyper-prioritised’ plan to try and ensure the most vulnerable were able to receive support. This plan aims to reach 114 million of the 300 million people in need, with 29 billion US Dollars. This prioritisation leaves almost 200 million people who need assistance beyond the focus of the humanitarian response.   “Given the funding levels so far in 2025, even many of those targeted by the ‘hyper-prioritised’ plan are likely to be left with their needs unmet. Alongside traditional humanitarian donors, we need to see other step up to bridge this gap, including a wider group of donor countries and the private sector. Development actors, including development banks, must also step up their investments in fragile and conflict-affected countries so that displaced people and host communities can access the support they need,” said Egeland.   The consequences of aid cuts can be clearly seen across the world. In Mozambique, where Japan is so far this year’s largest humanitarian donor country, aid agencies are being forced to scale down their support due to the abrupt ending of their United States (US) funding.“I witnessed first-hand the consequences in Mozambique, where I saw water tanks that can no longer be refilled due to the overnight cancellation of US funding. Families are left without a safe supply of drinking water. This is not only devastating lives but means that good investments already made with taxpayers’ money are getting lost. Our NRC teams too have been forced to scale down their support due to this halt in funding, and are now no longer able to provide safe housing for families made homeless by the recent cyclones. This is truly gut-wrenching,” said Egeland.   In Afghanistan, the US has drastically cut its aid work. Last year it supported 45 per cent of the humanitarian response in country.   “Our teams in Afghanistan remain on the ground and committed to the communities we have been working with for over two decades, but having lost our largest donor in the country our teams are being compelled to make heartbreaking choices on who and where we can help. We are not alone in this challenge. Many humanitarian organisations are being forced to reduce their support at a time when we are seeing more and more families returning to the country in need of urgent assistance,” said Egeland.   “This picture is being repeated time and time again around the world as international solidarity is being forced to cede to other priorities. Wealthy nations should step up funding before more lives are lost. If we can afford to host World Cups and global summits, and if NATO members can afford to increase defence spending to five per cent of GDP, we can afford to maintain support to the most vulnerable in their hour of greatest need.”   http://www.nrc.no/news/2025/july/aid-cuts-leaving-millions-without-support http://www.nrc.no/feature/2025/a-global-displacement-crisis-as-the-world-abandons-aid http://humanitarianaction.info/document/hyper-prioritized-global-humanitarian-overview-2025-cruel-math-aid-cuts http://humanitarianaction.info/   May 2025   May 2025   The Trump administration’s abrupt suspension of U.S. foreign aid is placing millions of lives and human rights at risk across the globe.   In its research briefing Lives at Risk, Amnesty International examines how the cuts have halted critical programs across the globe, many of which provided essential health care, food security, shelter, medical services, and humanitarian support for people in extremely vulnerable situations.   The cuts have come in response to the executive order ‘Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid’ issued by President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, as well as other executive orders that targeted specific programs for cuts.   In his testimony on May 21 and 22 in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided weak or incomplete answers about the grave human rights impact of the implementation of this order contrary to the evidence gathered by Amnesty and other organizations. He even erroneously asserted there have been no deaths associated with these cuts.   Given the scale of the cuts, the number and extent of robust modeling predicting substantial mortality, and the fact that deaths have been documented already, the assertion that there has not been any death stemming from these cuts defies logic.   “This abrupt decision and chaotic implementation by the Trump administration is reckless and profoundly damaging,” said Amanda Klasing, national director of government relations and advocacy with Amnesty International USA. “The decision to cut these programs so abruptly and in this untransparent manner violates international human rights law which the U.S. is bound by and undermines decades of U.S. leadership in global humanitarian and development efforts.   While U.S. funding over the decades has had a complex relationship with human rights, the scale and suddenness of these cuts have created a life-threatening vacuum that other governments and aid organizations are not able to fill in the immediate term, violating the rights to life and health, and dignity for millions.”   The rights to life and to health are under grave threat. The U.S. government has long been a key funder of global health, investing in HIV prevention, vaccine programs, maternal and child health, humanitarian relief and more. Since President Trump’s abrupt suspension of aid across multiple countries, many vital health services have been suspended or shut down.   In Haiti, health services have lost funding including for child survivors of sexual violence. In South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV epidemic, funding for HIV prevention and community outreach for orphans and vulnerable children, including for young survivors of rape, was terminated, leaving people without care.   In Yemen, lifesaving assistance and protection services, including malnutrition treatment to children, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, safe shelters to survivors of gender-based violence, and healthcare to children suffering from cholera and other illnesses have been shut down.   In South Sudan, projects providing a range of health services including rehabilitation services for victims of armed conflict and emergency nutritional support for children, have been stopped.   Funding cuts to groups that provide essential services for migrants, particularly those in dangerous or difficult situations, including refugees, people seeking asylum and internally displaced persons, have been widespread and devastating.   In Afghanistan, 12 out of 23 community resources centers, which provided approximately 120,000 returning and internally displaced Afghans with housing, food assistance, legal assistance and referrals to healthcare providers, have been shut down. Key aid organizations have suspended health and water programs, with disproportionate impacts on women and girls.   In Costa Rica, local organizations helping asylum seekers many from neighboring Nicaragua, are forced to scale back or close food and shelter programs. In Myanmar and Thailand, U.S.-funded health and humanitarian programs supporting displaced people and refugees have been suspended or drastically reduced. Clinics in Thai border camps closed abruptly after the stop-work orders, reportedly resulting in preventable deaths.   “These abrupt cuts in funding are undermining the humanitarian support and infrastructure that enables people around the world who have been forcibly displaced to access some measure of support and protection, placing already marginalized people in acute danger.   Amnesty International urges the Trump administration to restore foreign assistance, to programs where the chaotic and abrupt cut in funding has harmed human rights and ensure that future aid is administered consistent with human rights law and standards.   Amnesty calls on Congress to continue robust funding of foreign assistance and to ensure that all U.S. foreign assistance remains consistent with human rights and humanitarian principles and is allocated according to need.   All states in a position to do so should fulfill their obligations under UN General Assembly Resolution 2626 by committing at least 0.7% of gross national income to overseas aid. As part of aiming to meet this target, donor states should increase support where possible to help fill critical funding gaps left by the abrupt U.S. aid suspensions and ensure continued progress in realizing economic, social, and cultural rights and effective humanitarian response around the world.   “It is a false choice that the U.S. government has to choose between addressing the economic needs of Americans or the rising cost of living here in the U.S. and development and humanitarian assistance abroad,” said Klasing.   “Foreign assistance represents about one percent of the U.S. budget, and the U.S. has a global responsibility and interest in providing support to the most marginalized. As one of the world’s wealthiest nations with a history of providing foreign assistance, our analysis shows that this chaotic withdrawal from multilateral cooperation is in practice cruel and endangers the lives and rights of millions of people already facing crisis. The U.S. government can – and must – do better.”   http://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/lives-at-risk-chaotic-and-abrupt-cuts-to-foreign-aid-put-millions-of-lives-at-risk/ http://reliefweb.int/report/world/lives-risk-chaotic-and-abrupt-cuts-foreign-aid-put-millions-lives-risk http://www.interaction.org/statement/statement-on-the-latest-wave-of-foreign-assistance-terminations/ http://www.mercycorps.org/blog/human-cost-of-foreign-aid-cuts http://www.wfp.org/news/tens-millions-risk-extreme-hunger-and-starvation-unprecedented-funding-crisis-spirals http://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-executive-director-catherine-russell-globalforeign-aid-reductions http://www.acaps.org/en/us-funding-freeze http://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/biggest-ever-aid-cut-g7-members-death-sentence-millions-people-says-oxfam   May 2025   How US Aid Cuts are putting millions of Lives at Risk.   A catastrophe is unfolding in clinics, refugee camps, and conflict zones worldwide, says Farhat Mantoo; Executive Director of Medecins Sans Frontieres in South Asia.   In a remote health facility in Afghanistan, a young mother clutches her newborn, desperately waiting for the care she and her child so urgently need. But the clinic’s doors may soon close. Like hundreds of other health centers across Afghanistan, this facility is caught in the fallout of abrupt U.S. foreign aid cuts. For this mother, and millions like her in crisis-affected regions, the consequences are immediate and tragic — losing access to essential care at the very moment it is needed most.   In Afghanistan, several international NGOs have been forced to suspend critical health services, from maternal care to tuberculosis (TB) treatment, due to the abrupt termination of U.S.-funded programs. Therapeutic feeding centers in provinces like Badakhshan and Kabul have shut down, leaving malnourished children without care. Key services such as TB treatment, maternal health, mental health, mobile clinics, and vaccination programs have been suspended in multiple provinces, leading to reduced patient care, increased referrals to private (often unaffordable) facilities, and gaps in disease surveillance.   This is not an isolated story. Over the past 100 days, we have witnessed a growing, human-made disaster. The abrupt termination of U.S. foreign aid is dismantling critical health and humanitarian services across the globe, as the United States alone accounted for nearly 40 percent of global humanitarian funding.   While the scale of the U.S. cuts is shocking, it is a part of a wider shift. In the last few months, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands have all made significant cuts to their aid budgets.   Programs addressing diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, which have saved millions of lives, are now at risk of collapse. The resulting gaps will be felt most severely by those who already face the greatest challenges to their survival.   At Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, we do not accept U.S. government funding, and we continue to run medical humanitarian programs in more than 70 countries. However, we cannot do this alone. We work closely with other health and humanitarian organizations to deliver vital services, and many of our activities involve programs that have been disrupted and, in some contexts, dissipated due to funding cuts.   In our operations across regions where these funding cuts are most profound, we are already witnessing the devastating effects.   The United States has historically been a key contributor to humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan, accounting for 43.9 percent of all reported aid in the country, according to the United Nations. Following the recent aid suspension announced by the Trump administration, over 200 World Health Organization-supported health facilities — previously serving 1.84 million people — have either closed or halted operations. These closures have cut off access to vital services such as vaccinations, maternal care, and child health programs.   The impact is especially severe in northern, western, and northeastern Afghanistan, where more than one-third of clinics have shut down, and an additional 220 facilities are projected to close by June due to ongoing funding gaps. The crisis extends beyond the WHO. Save the Children has shuttered 18 of its 32 clinics, and the Norwegian Refugee Council has closed two community resource centers supporting displaced populations, with two more on the brink of shutting down. Action Against Hunger was forced to halt all U.S.-funded operations in March when the funding was abruptly cut.   In Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, home to one of the world’s largest refugee camps with 1 million Rohingya refugees, the United States has typically contributed nearly half of the total humanitarian aid allocated to support the refugees, amounting to approximately $300 million in 2024. Around 48 health facilities, including 11 primary care centers, have been affected by aid cuts, resulting in many refugees being left without access to essential healthcare services, according to the International Rescue Committee. As per the Inter-Sector Coordination Group, which oversees NGO activities in Cox’s Bazar, disruptions in healthcare services have impacted roughly 300,000 refugees.   MSF teams in more than 20 countries have reported concerns with disrupted or suspended sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programs, which MSF relies on for referrals for medical emergencies, supplies, and technical partnerships. These include contexts with already high levels of maternal and infant mortality. In Cox’s Bazar, MSF teams report that other implementers are not able to provide SRH supplies, like emergency birth kits and contraceptives. Referrals for medical emergencies, like post-abortion care, have also been disrupted, increasing urgent needs for SRH care in the region.   In Pakistan, the pause on U.S. foreign assistance would affect 1.7 million people, including 1.2 million Afghan refugees, who would be cut off from lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services with the closure of over 60 facilities, according to the U.N.   Cuts to President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and USAID have led to suspensions and closures of HIV programs in countries, including South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe — threatening the lives of people receiving antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. South Africa’s pioneering Treatment Action Campaign — which helped transform the country’s response to HIV/AIDS — has had to drastically reduce its community-led monitoring system that helps ensure that people stay on treatment. The monitoring is now only happening on a small scale at clinics.   The reported decision of the U.S. government to end its support for Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, which was set up 25 years ago to increase access to vaccines for the world’s poorest countries, will have devastating consequences for children across the globe. As per Gavi’s own estimates, the loss of U.S. support to Gavi is projected to deny approximately 75 million children routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children potentially dying as a result.   The United Nations has warned that these funding cuts are disrupting global childhood immunization efforts almost as severely as the COVID-19 pandemic did. Millions of children are now missing routine vaccinations, heightening the risk of outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles, polio, and diphtheria.   For more than 50 years, we have been vaccinating children who live in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach areas, including war zones, refugee camps, and rural areas cut off from health care. This decision will risk leaving these children unprotected. While we do not accept Gavi funding and will not be directly affected by cuts to the program, more than half of the vaccines we use in our projects come from ministries of health and are procured through Gavi.   We are standing at a perilous crossroads where political agendas and funding decisions are dismantling lifelines for millions. The erosion of humanitarian aid is not a future threat — it is a present catastrophe unfolding in clinics, refugee camps, and conflict zones worldwide. We cannot allow narrow national interests and harmful narratives to dictate who lives and who is left to suffer.   The international community — governments, donors, and citizens alike — must reaffirm an unwavering commitment to humanity. This means urgently restoring and protecting funding for essential health and humanitarian services, shielding vulnerable communities from the fallout of political decisions, and upholding the principles of impartiality, dignity, and care. Silence and inaction will cost lives. Now is the time to stand in solidarity, to demand that humanitarian aid remains a beacon of hope, not a tool of politics. The world must not turn its back on those who need us most.   http://www.msf.org/after-first-100-days-us-aid-budget-cuts http://msf.org.au/event/navigating-global-pressures-humanitarian-aid-impacts-msf-and-our-response/recording http://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/news/2025/04/105810/millions-will-die-funding-cuts-says-un-aid-chief http://humanitarianaction.info/document/us-funding-freeze-global-survey http://reliefweb.int/report/world/children-facing-extreme-hunger-crisis-put-risk-aid-cuts-clinics-close http://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/05/two-drops-of-life-for-me-aid-gamechanger/ http://www.one.org/us/stories/cost-of-cuts/ http://www.wvi.org/publication/world-refugee-day/report-ration-cuts-2025 http://www.justsecurity.org/114839/us-foreign-aid-cuts-world-must-respond/ Visit the related web page
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