UN Women, a United Nations entity dedicated to promoting gender equality and empowerment of women has sounded an alarm of a possible shutdown of organizations aiding girls and women in crises due to aid cuts.
In a press release, Chief of UN Women Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp says that with just US Dollars 3.05 billion of the total US Dollars 44.79 billion required as funding, humanitarian actors are being forced to scale back life-saving operations and prioritize the most urgent needs in these organizations.
She says that due to the funding deficit, nearly half of women's rights organizations providing essential, life-saving services for women and girls in close to 73 countries globally face slowed operations and eventual closure as a result of the drastic reductions in funding. "The situation is critical.
Women and girls simply cannot afford to lose the lifelines that women's organizations are providing.
