Yemen
The first high-profile funding cut, with UK humanitarian aid reduced from £197m pledged in 2020 to £87m this year.
Syria
UK humanitarian funding halved from £400m in 2019 to a minimum of £205m this year. Care UK was told that funding for its Syrian food, job and protection programme had been cut by two-thirds. Save the Children said humanitarian aid had been £1.6bn in 2019-20, cut to £906m this year.
Polio
UK funding for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative reduced from £100m to £5m. The UK pledged £400m towards polio eradication in 2019 to fund vaccines and distribution.
Malaria
End of drug treatments as part of the Ascend neglected tropical diseases programme and cuts to research funding at Imperial College London into infectious diseases such as malaria.
Island FM Last week, the UK government announced that it would be cutting its annual foreign aid commitment.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab set out the allocation for the UK s Official Development Assistance spending for 2021-22 at 0.7% to 0.5% of gross national income.
Following the announcement, 200 UK charities and aid organisations accused the government of delivering a tragic blow to the world s most marginalised people.
Four aid charities operating in Lebanon, Zambia, Congo and Sierra Leone spoke to Sky News about the impact these cuts will have on their work.
Rami Shamma, World Vision, Lebanon Let s see what surprises we have today, and which part of our lives will be destroyed.
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The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has been informed that the UK government has made significant cuts to the UK aid budget, including allocated funding for vital sexual and reproductive health services. The brutal cuts are a tragic blow for the world s poorest and most marginalized women and girls.
The significant loss of funding for IPPF – totalling around £72 million (approximately $100 million USD) – will mean massive reductions to the UK s flagship WISH (Women s Integrated Sexual Health) programme and the closure of services in four countries. This initiative delivers life-saving contraception and sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in some of the world s poorest and most marginalized communities.
Denver Newsroom, Aug 14, 2020 / 04:14 pm (CNA).- Governor Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is set to sign a ban on dilation and evacuation abortions into law at a ceremony on Saturday, after the bill passed the state legislature on Thursday.
The Nebraska Catholic Conference, one of the main organizations supporting the legislation, announced that the signing would take place outside on the steps of the state capitol at 11am Aug. 15. Attendees are asked to wear a mask.
Lauren Garcia, communication specialist for the NCC, told CNA that they are happy that Ricketts is signing the bill into law right away, and in a public setting, because only five days remain in the current legislative session.
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The British government is slashing its funding to the UN population fund (UNFPA) in a move described as âdevastatingâ for women and girls.
The agency confirmed on Wednesday that the UK, its largest donor, is cutting funding for contraceptives and reproductive health supplies by 85% this year â from £154m to £23m â and cutting core funding from £20m to £8m.
UNFPA said the £130m that has been withheld would have helped prevent a quarter of a million child and maternal deaths, 14.6 million unintended pregnancies and 4.3 million unsafe abortions.
It is a huge blow to UNFPA, which works in 150 countries. Britain is the first donor government to back away from its existing commitments. When the US government stopped funding the agency under Donald Trump, commitments already made were honoured.