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	Education Under Attack by Global Coalition to Protest Education from Attack   Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack 2024 Report   On average, eight attacks on education or cases of military use of schools were recorded daily around the world in 2022 and 2023.   In conflicts around the world – from Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the State of Palestine to Ukraine and Burkina Faso – schools have increasingly become targets rather than safe havens. This is the alarming trend revealed in the timely ‘Education Under Attack 2024’ report, launched today by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA).   From bombings of schools to the systematic targeting of students and educators, GCPEA’s latest report compiles research collected from attacks on education which occurred in 2022 and 2023. The report finds that, globally, attacks on education increased during the two years, as compared to 2020 and 2021, with attacks and military use of schools seeing an increase of nearly 20%.   GCPEA’s research team found reported cases of attacks on education or military use in 79 countries. In 2022-2023, GCPEA identified around 6,000 reported attacks on education and cases of military use of schools and universities. With at least 10,000 students and educators killed, injured, abducted, arrested or otherwise harmed during these attacks, one thing is clear: urgent action is needed to protect children and education.   "Education must never be a target. Attacking schools, students and teachers may constitute serious breaches of international humanitarian law. The report highlights the alarming increase in attacks on education worldwide,” said Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW). “This comprehensive study underscores the urgent need for action to safeguard students and teachers in conflict zones. Amidst crises, education's transformative power becomes even more evident – offering protection, hope and a pathway to brighter futures."   Attacks on education have become all too common, posing significant threats to the safety and accessibility of learning environments. From bombings of schools to targeted assaults on students and educators, these acts undermine the right to education and perpetuate cycles of instability and inequality.   Every child must be safe to learn, no matter who or where they are. We must continue to work to make this fundamental human right a reality through safeguarding education, and the children and youth who depend on it.   http://protectingeducation.org/publication/education-under-attack-2024/ http://www.educationcannotwait.org/news-stories/featured-content/attacks-education-20-global-coalition-protect-education-attack http://www.educationcannotwait.org/news-stories/directors-corner/act-humanity http://www.educationcannotwait.org/news-stories/postcards-the-edge http://www.unicef.org/education-under-attack http://www.unicef.org/children-under-attack/change-agenda http://www.unicef.org/press-releases/meaningful-action-prevent-use-explosive-weapons-populated-areas-could-almost-halve http://www.unicef.org/media/press-centre http://www.savethechildren.net/blog/education-lifeline-emergencies http://data.stopwaronchildren.org http://www.stopwaronchildren.org/ http://www.savethechildren.net/news http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/west-and-central-africa-alarming-rise-school-closures http://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154086 http://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/2024/09/leaders-convene-in-doha-to-address-the-escalating-crisis-of-attacks-on-education-in-conflict-zones/   Sep. 2022   Fifty-seven million children, adolescents and youth are barred from attending school in the Central and West Africa region, representing 24.1 per cent of the 236 million out of school worldwide, warn the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in a report published on eve of the International Day to Protect Education from Attack.   “Every child out of school, every day of learning lost, is one brick fewer to build peace and prosperity in the region,” said Maureen Magee, Regional Director for NRC in Central and West Africa. “In this context of relentless violence and families repeatedly uprooted from their homes, the leaders of the Central and West African Region must do their utmost to ensure the full implementation of the Safe Schools Declaration and protect every child’s right to go to school.”   The number of school closures has spiked in eight countries of the region, with over 12,400 schools closed by the end of the 2021-22 school year*. In Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger more than half of all children and adolescents do not have access to education. Over the last school year, the number of closed schools increased by 66 per cent in the Central Sahel region alone. Schools are either the direct target of attacks by non-state armed groups or deserted by students in fear of attacks. Violence also forces entire communities to lose their resources and flee, cutting off children and adolescents' access to education.   The region is facing an unprecedented challenge to ensure there is not a whole generation of lost learners. Their future depends on the ability of governments to prioritise the rehabilitation, reopening and securing of damaged or destroyed schools, and to reinforce alternative learning solutions when that is not possible. Concrete measures should be taken by parties to the conflicts in the region to end the military use of schools.   "Sadly, learning institutions have not been spared from attacks by armed groups. Maintaining access to safe, quality education for all children, including refugees, is crucial," said Millicent Mutuli, Director of UNHCR Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa.   International funding to the education sector is also often among the lowest of the humanitarian responses in the Central and West Africa region. In 2021, donor governments provided less than a quarter of the funds needed to meet emergency education needs, half of the 2018 allocation. In Burkina Faso, which has a third of all schools currently closed in the region, the amount allocated by donors so far this year represents barely 20 US Cents per month per displaced child under the age of 15.   As tomorrow marks the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the three humanitarian organisations call on governments, armed forces, other parties to conflicts and the international community to take concerted action to stop attacks and threats against schools, students and teachers, as well as to step up sustainable support for quality learning for every child in the region.   http://www.nrc.no/news/2022/september/central-and-west-africa-home-to-almost-a-quarter-of-out-of-school-children-worldwide/ http://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127201 http://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/2022/12/attacks-on-schools-increased-a-year-after-adoption-of-resolution-safeguarding-right-to-education/   May 2022   More than 9,000 students, teachers, and academics were harmed, injured, or killed in attacks on education during armed conflict over the past two years, according to Education under Attack 2022, a 265-page report published today by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA).   More than 5,000 separate attacks on education facilities, students, and educators, or incidents of military use, took place in 2020 and 2021, a significant increase over the previous two years.   Researchers for Education under Attack 2022 found that the number of attacks on education and military use of schools increased from 2019 to 2020 by one-third, and continued at this heightened rate in 2021, even as schools and universities around the world closed for prolonged periods during the Covid-19 pandemic.   GCPEA found attacks on the rise in countries including Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ethiopia, Mali, Myanmar, and Nigeria, and emergent in others such as Mozambique and Azerbaijan, while downward trends were identified in South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.   Attacks intensified in 2022: Over a thousand schools and universities have been damaged in Ukraine since February 24, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science and civil society groups.   “It is crucial for governments and armed groups to end attacks on education, and stop using schools and universities for military purposes,” said Diya Nijhowne, GCPEA executive director. “Governments should investigate attacks and prosecute those responsible for abuses. In post-Covid-19 ‘back to school’ campaigns, they need to fully integrate students affected by attacks, expanding alternative education programs developed during the pandemic as necessary.”   Attacks on education involve armed forces and non-state armed groups bombing and burning schools and universities, and killing, injuring, raping, abducting, arbitrarily arresting, and recruiting students and educators at or near educational institutions, during armed conflict.   In addition to the deaths and injuries caused by these attacks, destroyed and occupied schools upend learning, sometimes permanently, and have long-term social and economic consequences.   Explosive weapons, which were involved in one-fifth of all reported attacks on education, had particularly devastating effects, killing or injuring countless students and educators and damaging hundreds of schools and universities.   In Afghanistan, attacks on schools involving explosive weapons killed or injured at least 185 students and educators, nearly all of them girls, in the first half of 2021 alone. In Palestine, air-launched and ground-launched strikes damaged a quarter of Gaza’s schools during an escalation of hostilities in May 2021.   Attacks on schools made up nearly two-thirds of all reports of attacks on education and military use collected by GCPEA, a similar proportion to the previous two years. In 2020 and 2021, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Palestine were the countries most affected by attacks on schools, with each experiencing over 400 threatened or actual attacks.   Rates of military use of schools and universities by armed forces and non-state armed groups more than doubled in 2020 and 2021 as compared with the previous two years. Driving this increase was an uptick in schools used as barracks, detention centers, or for military operations. Myanmar had more than 200 such cases, mostly after the February 2021 military coup.   Targeted attacks on students and educators were also widespread. In Nigeria, over 1,000 students or educators were reportedly abducted, injured, or killed, at least one-third of them women and girls.   The rate of these attacks, many by unidentified armed groups, escalated from December 2020. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Palestine, Somalia, and Colombia also had high numbers of students and educators threatened, abducted, injured, or killed.   Armed groups or armed forces also targeted schools to recruit children. In the past two years, state armed forces or armed groups reportedly recruited students from schools in Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Yemen, while armed forces, security forces, or armed groups were reportedly responsible for sexual violence in, or on the way to or from, schools and universities in at least seven countries.   Universities, and their students and staff, also came under fire over the past two years, with over 320 reported incidents. Most of these attacks targeted university students and personnel, while a quarter of incidents targeted university facilities. Over 550 university students or personnel were injured, abducted, or killed and another 1,450 were detained, arrested, or convicted.   The Covid-19 pandemic did not slow attacks on education. In fact, some violations became more prominent in 2020 and 2021. Armed forces and non-state armed groups took advantage of vacant schools to use them for military purposes, including in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, and Syria.   Elsewhere, the police responded with excessive force to students’ and educators’ protests over policies related to the closure or reopening of schools and universities during the pandemic, including using water cannons and teargas. In other countries, such as Colombia and Palestine, after lockdown measures were lifted, schools that had sustained damage during attacks experienced delayed reopenings, or reopened with damaged facilities.   This report was released on the seventh anniversary of the Safe Schools Declaration, a political commitment to protect education in armed conflict, endorsed by 114 countries. By joining the Declaration, countries commit to taking concrete steps to safeguard education, including by using the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use During Armed Conflict. Since the Declaration was opened for endorsement in 2015, governments and their partners have madetangible improvements in law and practice to protect education from attack. Over one-third of the countries profiled in the report are not signatories.   “As attacks on schools and universities, their students, and educators continue to occur in both new andprotracted conflicts, the Safe Schools Declaration, on its seventh anniversary, remains a critical tool,” Nijhowne said. “All governments should endorse and implement the Declaration to save lives and safeguard the right to education for all, including those in the most dire situations of war.”   * The report is the sixth in the Education under Attack series. It analyzes global trends and profiles attacks and military use of schools and universities in 28 countries. The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA)  is a coalition of United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations working in the fields of education in emergencies, protection, and higher education.   http://eua2022.protectingeducation.org/ http://protectingeducation.org/ http://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/01/attacks-education-increased-worldwide-during-pandemic Visit the related web page
	Conflict breeds hunger. And widespread hunger in return aggravates instability by OCHA, WFP, ICRC, Red Cross, agencies   Sep. 2022   Conflict breeds hunger. And widespread hunger in return aggravates instability. (OCHA)   UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths remarks at UN Security Council briefing on conflict-induced food insecurity and the risk of famine:   "Four years ago, this Council made a connection between its responsibility to maintain peace and security and its commitment to address food insecurity and conflict-induced hunger.   You asked at that time to be swiftly informed when the risk of conflict-induced famine and widespread food insecurity occurs. That risk, as we will hear and discuss today, is now upon us, and so, regretfully, we are here today.   Last month, we highlighted four contexts where this risk is clear: Ethiopia, north-east Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.   Of course, food insecurity has reached alarming levels in other situations that also demand our attention, such as Afghanistan and Somalia - and you may perhaps permit me to make reference to Somalia before I close - and the Secretary-General has recently written to all Member States to convey his concern.   In Somalia, more than 200,000 people were at risk of famine. And that number is expected to reach 300,000 very soon as we will hear from colleagues in FAO and WFP. Famine will happen in Somalia, and we fear it won’t be the only place either.   In the four contexts I mentioned, recent assessments have identified hundreds of thousands of people facing catastrophic levels of hunger, or phase 5 of the Integrated Phase Classification system, IPC-5, which monitors food security and food insecurity worldwide.   Phase 5, as we have all come to know, is the system’s ultimate, most devastating phase. It doesn't get any worse than that and it is rare for people to return from it.   This widespread suffering comes down to the direct and indirect impact of conflict and violence, and the behaviour of the warring, fighting parties. A similar pattern recurs in each context.   Civilians killed or injured. Families forcibly displaced from the land they depend on for their livelihoods and their food.   Explosive remnants of war disrupting people’s access to markets, agricultural production and income generation. Civilian infrastructure and equipment essential for people’s food security stolen, damaged or destroyed. Food stocks looted. Livestock killed.   Economic decline and rising prices have put sufficient food out of reach in these contexts for the most vulnerable.   In the most extreme cases, and most egregious of cases, fighting parties have deliberately cut off access to the commercial supplies and essential services that civilians rely on to survive. Hunger is sometimes used as a tactic of war.   Humanitarian organizations have extended relief lifelines to people in all these crises, working with local aid groups, the frontline responders, the first to deal with trouble, the first to understand the suffering of their people, and sometimes they are the only people there, on the ground.   But too often, we all face interference, impediments, harassment and attacks on our staff and our reputations, and looting or diversion of our assets.   This prevents us from reaching people in need, and it makes their suffering worse. Humanitarians will stay and deliver, but the conditions in some contexts are simply too difficult, too unacceptable.   Other drivers of hunger, including drought, I’ll come back to that, the effects of COVID-19 and rising global commodity prices, are also compounding food insecurity.   The secondary impacts of the war in Ukraine are also among the drivers of food insecurity in many armed conflicts, increasing food and fertilizer prices and contributing to spikes in energy prices.   Finally, although we are here to discuss the link between conflict and hunger, I would be remiss if I did not point out that in every single one of the countries I have mentioned, people are quite literally on the front lines of climate change.   People are feeling the impact first of climate change, and as the Secretary-General has been making clear recently in public and private statements, climate change is here and stalks the land. Madam President, if I may offer a brief snapshot of each of these countries and crises:   In Yemen, more than seven years of armed conflict, have wreaked havoc on people across the country. Some 19 million people – six out of ten of the population – are acutely food insecure.   An estimated 160,000 people are facing catastrophe, the IPC-5 that I mentioned, and 538,000 children are severely malnourished.   The situation may worsen there due to funding gaps for the humanitarian response and continuing economic instability.   Disruptions to commercial imports could also exacerbate food insecurity – a prospect that has become very real over recent weeks. I know we will hear more from other briefers, as lack of funding threatens the operations of the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism, which inspects all commercial imports, including food, to Yemen’s Red Sea ports.   We hope that that particular funding gap will be quickly addressed so that we can avoid a shutdown of the mechanism due on 1 October.   In South Sudan, 63 per cent of the population, or 7.7 million people, were projected to be in crisis or worse or catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity during the peak season this year. Assessments project that 87,000 people, mostly in Jonglei State and Greater Pibor Administrative Area, could face catastrophe, IPC-5.   South Sudan was, I should add, one of the most dangerous places to be an aid worker last year, with 319 violent incidents targeting humanitarian personnel and assets. Five aid workers, our colleagues, were killed in 2021, and five more have died since the beginning of this year doing their best to get people the help they need and deserve.   In Ethiopia, more than 13 million people need life-saving food assistance across Afar, Amhara and Tigray.   In June, 87 per cent of people surveyed in Tigray were food insecure, more than half of them severely so. I am sure David Beasley will speak to the World Food Programme’s assessment in February that also found extremely worrying food insecurity in parts of Afar and Amhara.   We saw some recent improvements in the delivery of humanitarian assistance in northern Ethiopia, but that’s done now. The resumption of hostilities in recent weeks is undoing that progress.   Elsewhere in Ethiopia, in parts of Benishangul-Gumuz and southern and western Oromia, food insecurity and malnutrition are also believed to be extremely high.   The prediction of famine in the Horn will not be limited to Somalia and the numbers at risk in Ethiopia dwarf even the level of stress that we see in Somalia.   Finally, north-east Nigeria, we project that 4.1 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity in the conflict-affected states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.   They include 588,000 people who already faced emergency levels between June and August, almost half of whom were inaccessible to our colleagues due to insecurity and therefore food security assessments could not be conducted in those areas.   But we can deduce, and we can fear, that some people may already be at the level of catastrophe and already dying.   Member States could take the following actions in all four of these places, and well beyond:   • First, leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of peaceful and negotiated resolutions to conflicts and other situations of violence. We may hope to see that in Yemen, we may plead to see that in Ethiopia, and we may hope to see that elsewhere.   • Second, remind and encourage States and armed groups to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights law. They must not do that which threatens the survival of civilians, and they must ensure the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief. And I say that knowing full well how absurd that may seem to some people.   • Third, support an integrated response to address the underlying drivers of acute food insecurity, and this is about supporting the economies of countries facing severe, largescale hunger. The issues of economic collapse and economic shocks, also related to the climate, are ones which become more and more the agenda of humanitarian action.   • Finally, please sustain humanitarian financing for these crises. In all these countries, we are well below half of the funding required. And without those resources, we will do little.   I do want to highlight the issue which is central to peace and security and that is climate change.   I have just come back from Somalia and indeed attending the Secretary-General’s visit to Pakistan, and the absolute clarity of purpose expressed in those visits, by him in Pakistan, and I tried in Somalia, was that the impact of climate change is felt by those who have done little to create it, and the access to climate financing is as yet pitifully little. Somalia has received nothing.   Yet if we want to invest in resilience, if we want to shelter the peoples of these countries from a repetition of the shocks of this year, if we want Somalia to survive the famines that will come, late this year and into next year, we need attention from the climate community - from Member States who have pledged money, all of which has not reached its destination".   World Food Programme (WFP) chief executive David Beasley addressing the Security Council underlined the threat of growing mass starvation and famine, “we are facing a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude”.   And since the Ukraine conflict began, “a wave of hunger has turned into “a tsunami”, he said, noting that up to 345 million people in 82 countries are “moving towards starvation”.   “This is a record high – now more than 2.5 times the number of acutely food insecure people before the pandemic began”.   Mr. Beasley presented alarming statistics on the dire situation faced by hundreds of millions around the world.   As raging conflicts push millions of “blameless civilians ever closer to starvation and famine,” he called on the Council to “show the humanitarian leadership the world urgently needs right now and… break the vicious cycle of hunger and conflict, which is fuelling a global food insecurity crisis that threatens to spin out of control".   “The hungry people of the world are counting on us to do the right thing – and we must not let them down,” implored Mr. Beasley.   Sep. 2022   Crisis fatigue not an option as global hunger crisis deepens, the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement warns.   More than 140 million people face acute food insecurity due to conflict and instability.   The warning lights are flashing on high: armed conflict, climate-related emergencies, economic hardship and political obstacles are leading to a growing wave of hunger in countries around the world. The misery for millions will deepen without immediate urgent action.   Systems-level improvements must be made to escape a cycle of recurrent crises, including investments in climate-smart food production in conflict-affected areas, and reliable mechanisms to support hard-to-reach communities hit by food shortages and skyrocketing prices, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly.   The international armed conflict in Ukraine has greatly disrupted global food supply systems as well as future harvests in many countries due to the impact it’s having on the availability of fertilizer. The importance of more shipments by the Black Sea grain initiative reaching vulnerable populations in East Africa cannot be overstated. Too few grain shipments are getting to where they are needed.   As hunger emergencies hit the headlines, the risk of crisis fatigue is high. Yet what’s uniquely frightening about this moment is the breadth and depth of the needs. More than 140 million people face acute food insecurity due to conflict and instability, even as climate change and economic precarity indicate that hunger needs will rise in the coming months.   Political will and resources are needed now. Without them, many lives will be lost, and the suffering will endure for years. An emergency response alone will not end these hunger crises. Concerted action and long-term approaches are the only way to break the cycle.   While addressing urgent needs, it is essential to set the foundation for resilience. More efforts must be made — by governments, private sectors, and humanitarian and development groups — to support long-term food security, livelihoods, and resilience plans.   Measures must include investments in strengthening grassroots food systems and community actors to sustainably achieve food and economic security. One of the approaches to consider is anticipatory action for food security, based on forecasts and risk analysis.   Francesco Rocca, president of the IFRC, said: “Two dozen countries across Africa are grappling with the worst food crisis in decades. Some 22 million people in the Horn of Africa are in the clutches of starvation due to such compounding crises as drought, flooding, COVID-19’s economic effects, conflict – even desert locusts.   Behind the staggeringly high numbers are real people – men, women and children battling death-level hunger every day. The situation is expected to deteriorate into 2023. However, with swift action, many lives can be saved.   We need urgent and massive action to scale up life-saving assistance to millions of people in dire need of aid, but also to decisively address the root causes of this crisis through longer term commitments.”   The IFRC and its membership—which consists of Red Cross and Red Crescent teams in nearly every corner of the globe—are delivering aid in hard-to-reach communities. Assistance includes getting cash into the hands of families to meet food, health and other urgent needs. In Nigeria, Red Cross volunteers focus on pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, whose nutrition is paramount for healthy births and childhoods. In Madagascar, volunteers restore land and water sources through anti-erosion activities, the construction of water points, and a focus on irrigation in addition to traditional ways to fight hunger, like nutrition monitoring.   Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, said: “Conflict is a huge driver of hunger. We see violence preventing farmers from planting and harvesting. We see sanctions and blockades preventing food delivery to the most vulnerable. My wish is that we build resiliency into the fabric of humanitarian response, so that communities suffer less when violence and climate change upend lives. A cycle of band-aid solutions will not be enough in coming years.”   The ICRC this year has helped nearly 1 million people in south and central Somalia buy a month’s worth of food by distributing cash to more than 150,000 households. A similar programme in Nigeria helped 675,000 people, while more than a quarter million people received climate smart agriculture inputs to restore crop production. The ICRC works to strengthen resilience through seeds, tools and livestock care so that residents can better absorb recurrent shocks. And its medical professionals are running stabilization centres in places like Somalia, where kids are getting specialized nutrition care.   Communities around the world are suffering deep hardship. A short snapshot of some of the regions in need includes:   In Sub-Saharan Africa: One in three children under the age of five is stunted by chronic undernutrition, while two out of five women of childbearing age are anaemic because of poor diets. The majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa live on less than $1.90 a day.   In Afghanistan: The combination of three decades of armed conflict and an economic crash resulting in few job opportunities and a massive banking crisis are having a devastating effect on Afghan families’ ability to buy food. More than half the country – 24 million – need assistance.   The International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement welcomes any measure aimed at easing the effect of economic sanctions. But given the depth of the humanitarian crisis, long-term solutions are also needed, including the resumption of projects and investments by states and development agencies in key infrastructure.   In Pakistan: The recent flooding has led to an estimated $12 billion in losses. Food security in the country was alarming before this latest catastrophe, with 43 percent of the population food insecure. Now the number of acutely hungry people is expected to rise substantially. Some 78,000 square kilometers (21 million acres) of crops are under water. An estimated 65 percent of the country’s food basket – crops like rice and wheat– have been destroyed, with over 733,000 livestock reportedly killed. The floods will also negatively affect food delivery into neighboring Afghanistan.   In Somalia: We have seen a five-fold increase in the number of malnourished children needing care. Last month the Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa admitted 466 children, up from 82 in August 2021. Children admitted here die without the specialized nutritional care they receive.   In Syria: Food insecurity rates have risen more than 50 percent since 2019. Today, two-thirds of Syria’s population –12.4 million out of 18 million – can’t meet their daily food needs. The compounding effects of more than a decade of conflict, including the consequences of sanctions, have crippled people’s buying power. Food prices have risen five-fold in the last two years.   In Yemen: Most Yemenis survive on one meal a day. Last year 53 percent of Yemen’s population were food insecure. This year it’s 63 percent – or some 19 million people. Aid actors have been forced to cut food assistance due to a lack of funds. Some 5 million people will now receive less than 50 percent of their daily nutritional requirement because of it.   http://www.icrc.org/en/document/crisis-fatigue-not-option-global-hunger-crisis-deepens-international-red-cross-red-crescent http://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1126771 http://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/under-secretary-general-humanitarian-affairs-and-emergency-relief-coordinator-martin-griffiths-remarks-security-council-briefing-conflict-induced-food-insecurity-and-risk-famine http://www.wfp.org/global-hunger-crisis http://www.wfp.org/conflict-and-hunger http://www.ipcinfo.org/ http://gho.unocha.org/trends/conflict-remains-major-driver-humanitarian-need http://peace-dividend.org/ http://www.fsinplatform.org/global-report-food-crises-2023-mid-year-update http://www.fightfoodcrises.net/hunger-hotspots/en Visit the related web page
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