Stephen O’Brien, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, has launched $20.1 billion humanitarian appeal to help more than 90 million people of the world’s most vulnerable and marginalised people in 2016.
O’Brien, who was also the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said on Tuesday at the launching in Geneva that the amount for the “Global Humanitarian Overview 2016” was five times the amount appealed for a decade ago.
He said the appeal was intended to help 87 million people in 37 national and regional crises in 2016.
O’Brien disclosed that the human suffering had reached levels not seen since the Second World War, with more than 125 million people urgently in need of humanitarian assistance to survive in 2016.
The coordinator urged the international community to respond generously again to the call for funding.
He noted that the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan and Yemen would remain among the greatest drivers of prolonged humanitarian needs in 2016, fueling new displacement within countries and across borders.
Xinhua/NAN.
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