The United Nations has launched an appeal to raise $8.4 billion (€7.7bn) this year, and hopes to receive major pledges at the one-day conference which will be attended by delegates from 78 nations.
The pledges have been kick-started by the US and Kuwait with the US pledging $507m towards addressing the humanitarian crisis while summit hosts Kuwait got the ball rolling with a promise of $500m.
- Saudi Arabia said it was providing an additional $60million.
The conference is being held as the humanitarian situation deteriorates in Syria with many international aid agencies complaining that a shortage of funding could lead to their operations being halted.
Ahead of the meeting, around 40 international non-governmental organisations pledged $506m, much higher than funds promised at two previous NGO conferences.
UN humanitarian affairs chief Valerie Amos said the donor response at today's conference "needs to be comprehensive".
She said the humanitarian situation had deteriorated in Syria with no reduction in violence and children particularly affected.
At the first and second conferences, also hosted by Kuwait, pledges of $1.5 billion and $2.4 billion were made. However, the UN has complained that not all pledges were honoured.
- Mr Ban said in a report last week that devastation from the fighting in Syria had left around 7.6m people internally displaced.
- Another 3.9m have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
"Every day brings more death, displacement and destruction," the UN report said.
With the conflict now in its fifth year, almost half of all Syrians have been forced to flee their homes, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
Of the $8.4bn needed, $5.5bn is for refugees in neighbouring nations and $2.9bn for people inside Syria, it said.
International aid agency Oxfam has criticised the international response to the Syria crisis, saying the funds were woefully inadequate................http://www.rte.ie/news/world/2015/0331/690982-un-syria-donors/
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Internationale Syrien-Geberkonferenz..... Hilfsappelle - und erste Zusagen ...
ReplyDeleteDie Geberkonferenz in Syrien steht vor einer Mammutaufgabe: 7,7 Milliarden Euro sind laut UN nötig, um den Syrern zu helfen - und damit das Doppelte von dem, was vorher zusammenkam. Nun machen die ersten Staaten Zusagen - mal mehr, mal weniger hoch.
Auf der internationalen Geberkonferenz in Kuwait-Stadt hat UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon die Weltgemeinschaft zu einer Hilfe in Milliardenhöhe für notleidende Syrer aufgerufen. Bei der Eröffnung sprach er von der "schlimmsten humanitären Krise unserer Zeit". Vier von fünf Syrern lebten in Armut, im Elend und litten Entbehrungen. Das Land habe "fast vier Jahrzehnte humane Entwicklung verloren". Rund die Hälfte der Männer, Frauen und Kinder hätten fliehen müssen. Sie fragten nicht nach Mitleid, sondern nach Unterstützung.
Die Syrer benötigen das Doppelte, was auf den bisherigen zwei Geberkonferenzen zusammengekommen war: Laut dem UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk UNHCR werden umgerechnet 7,7 Millionen Euro benötigt. Bei den beiden vorherigen Konferenzen waren 1,5 Milliarden beziehungsweise 2,4 Milliarden Euro zugesichert worden. Nach UN-Angaben wurden die Zusagen jedoch teilweise nicht eingehalten...............http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/syrien-geberkonferenz-103.html
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed "shame, deep anger and frustration" at the international community's failure to resolve the Syria conflict...
ReplyDelete"Year after year after year, the world has watched Syria being torn apart," Ban said Tuesday at an international, Kuwait-hosted donors' conference on Syria.
"By conservative estimates, more than 220,000 Syrians are now dead," he said, adding that the actual death toll was "likely much higher."
"Four out of five Syrians live in poverty, misery and deprivation. The country has lost nearly four decades of human development. Unemployment is over 50 percent. Life expectancy has been cut by an astounding 20 years," Ban lamented..............http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/486342--uns-ban-deeply-angry-at-intl-community-over-syria
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