Conflict and violence become the leading driver of internal displacements by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)   May 2026   States must act to protect Civilians in Armed Conflict   Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict is a Responsibility that Member States and the UN Security Council Must Uphold. Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC):   "As the Protection of Civilians Week unfolds in New York, we strongly condemn and raise the alarm about the growing and blatant violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law meant to protect civilians in armed conflict.   Across conflicts, civilians, including children, are killed, injured, and displaced at an alarming scale. Sexual violence is used as a tactic of war, overwhelmingly affecting women and girls and devastating lives. Homes, schools, places of worship, hospitals, including maternal wards, are destroyed or damaged, as are civilian infrastructure and assets, such as water systems, transport network, markets, food production. Essential services are collapsing. Forced displacement is accelerating.   Conflict-induced hunger and famine are spreading, often driven by unlawful siege tactics, starvation, and the arbitrary denial of humanitarian access. This is happening despite the existence of clear obligations under International Humanitarian Law and the framework reaffirmed by UN Security Council resolution 2417 (2018), which condemns the deliberate starvation of civilians and the use of hunger as method of warfare.   And a decade after the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2286 (2016) that demands the protection of the wounded, sick, and medical personnel, violence, attacks and threats against healthcare workers and facilities continue with impunity. More than 10,000 incidents against health care facilities and workers have been verified to date.   Aid workers are also under attack and killed in unprecedented numbers. More than 1,000 humanitarian colleagues have been killed over the past three years. Many others are arbitrarily detained. Often the first to respond, staff from national and local organisations and community initiatives pay an unacceptably high toll. Many women-led-organisations addressing lifesaving protection and gender-based violence are being attacked.   From Gaza to El Fasher, and from Kharkiv to Beirut, the use of explosive weapons in populated areas is devastating civilian lives. At the same time, new technologies, including drones and artificial intelligence, are reshaping warfare and expanding the battlefield.   Wars have rules that apply to all parties to conflict. The problem is not a lack of law. The problem is the failure to uphold them consistently, the erosion of accountability and inaction, even in the face of atrocities.   Protecting civilians is a legal obligation and a moral imperative. For the sake of our shared humanity, rules that protect civilians must be upheld.   http://interagencystandingcommittee.org/inter-agency-standing-committee/statement-principals-iasc-protecting-civilians-armed-conflict-responsibility-member-states-and-un http://www.unocha.org/news/un-heads-condemn-failure-protect-civilians-growing-threats-their-security   20 May 2026   Briefing to the UN Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict - by Edem Wosornu, Director, Crisis Response Division for OCHA, on behalf of Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:   "One civilian was killed approximately every 14 minutes in 2025. These are only the deaths that the United Nations could document across 20 armed conflicts. We know the real toll is far higher in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Sudan, in Ukraine, in the occupied Palestinian territory and beyond.   I saw some of this devastation myself over the past year during my visits to countries affected by war.   Civilians, including children, are killed in their homes, in markets, at work, at school, on roads, and while fleeing for safety. All too often, they are not collateral damage. They are the target.   Explosive weapons continue to tear through towns and cities, destroying not only lives but the systems that sustain them such as power grids, water networks, schools, and hospitals.   Health care is under attack. Ten years after this Council adopted Resolution 2286 on the protection of health care in armed conflict, the situation has only gotten worse.   In 2025, the United Nations recorded more than 1,350 attacks on medical care across 18 conflicts. Hospitals and ambulances were hit. Medical personnel were killed, detained, intimidated, or criminalized simply for doing their jobs.   Conflict‑driven hunger has deepened. 147 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2025, driven largely by armed conflict. Two famines were confirmed – not because food was unavailable, but because of the way parties conducted hostilities, used siege tactics, and denied humanitarian access. Food has become a weapon of war.   Sexual violence remains widespread. The United Nations reported over 9,300 cases last year – the overwhelming majority women and girls – many of whom will struggle to get the basic assistance they need. We know that number unfortunately is much higher.   Children are abducted and recruited to fight. Too many are injured and killed – a direct result of the use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas. Information and Communication Technology, including social media, is used to abduct, to extort, and recruit children.   Journalists are targeted. According to UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), 186 journalists were killed while covering wars and conflict zones between 2022 and 2025 – a 67 per cent increase compared to the period 2018-2021.   Persons with disabilities are left behind when bombs fall and warnings fail.   Last month, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, briefed this Council on attacks against humanitarian workers. Since then, eight more colleagues were confirmed killed in 2025. Already in 2026, 144 humanitarian workers have been reported killed, injured, abducted or detained as they try to serve those in need.   New technologies are intensifying these risks. Armed drones and artificial intelligence are accelerating the pace and reach of violence, often in densely populated areas. The use of drones increased by 4,000 per cent from 2020 to 2024 across conflicts. The impact is not only physical. The impact is psychological – constant fear, constant disruption. The consequences for children are alarming.   None of this is inevitable. These patterns are the result of choices. The choice by parties of conflict to ignore their obligations to protect civilians, and, too often, to target them.   The choice by some to adopt increasingly permissive interpretations of international humanitarian law, hollowing out the very rules designed to protect civilians during war. The choice to subordinate the protection of civilians to claims of military necessity or exceptional threat. The choice to let impunity prevail.   The choice to harness technology to increase lethality, sow devastation, and spread misinformation, instead of using it to better protect civilians.   And the choice to attack the United Nations Charter, humanitarian norms, and the tools built over decades – that extraordinary scaffolding meant to protect people from and during war.   My message to this Council and to the United Nations membership is simple: there is another path. Other choices are possible. They must be made. They must be made because protecting civilians, ensuring respect for the law, and ending impunity is not only a legal and moral obligation.   It is also in Member States’ shared interest. In a world where conflicts are rising and rearmament is accelerating, unrestrained force and unapologetic brutality do not make anyone safer. They put everyone at risk.   Those who believe war will never reach them, their families, or their people are living in a dangerous illusion. War does not respect borders. It does not respect privileges.   So, the law exists. The tools exist. What is needed now is the resolve, the leadership, the courage, and the moral clarity to hold the line and to push it forward.   Protecting civilians requires more than expressions of concern. Protecting civilians requires genuine commitment that translates into concrete action. To uphold the United Nations Charter and prevent disagreements from escalating into armed conflict.   To ensure respect for international humanitarian law, without exceptions, without selectivity, regardless of who the parties are. No reinterpretation. No exceptionalism. No double standards.   To avoid the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and call out those who raze entire cities to the ground. To stop the transfer of weapons when there is a clear risk they will be used against civilians. To safeguard medical care, humanitarian personnel and journalists; not stigmatize them, not criminalize them.   To keep human control over the use of force. To steer AI and technology toward greater, not lesser, protection of civilians. To help victims seek justice. And to end impunity.   Protecting civilians in armed conflict is not charity. It is the minimum that humanity and civilization require. It is central to peace and security.   It is a responsibility of this Council and of every Member State that signed the United Nations Charter. And it is what many people around the world expect the Member States of the United Nations to do. It cannot be outsourced, it cannot be postponed, it cannot be diluted. It is the choice we have to make, now.   http://www.unocha.org/news/ocha-tells-security-council-protecting-civilians-cannot-be-outsourced-postponed-or-diluted http://www.unocha.org/news/over-1000-aid-workers-killed-often-hands-member-states-un-relief-chief-demands-action http://www.icrc.org/en/statement/icrc-president-un-security-council-open-debate-protection-civilians-armed-conflict http://www.icrc.org/en/statement/icrc-ifrc-world-red-cross-red-crescent-day-call-uphold-protections-civilians-medical-personnel-humanitarian-workers-communities-depend-on http://globalprotectioncluster.org/publications/2474/communication-materials/advocacy-note/poc-advocacy-note-civilian-protection-2026 http://civiliansinconflict.org/press-releases/joint-civil-society-statement-ahead-of-the-2026-open-debate-on-the-protection-of-civilians-in-armed-conflict/   * Protection of civilians in armed conflict - Report of the Secretary-General: http://docs.un.org/en/S/2026/390   May 2026   Conflict and violence become the leading driver of internal displacements - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre   Conflict and violence drove a record 32.3 million internal displacements in 2025, surpassing disaster displacements for the first time on record, according to the Global Report on Internal Displacement 2026 published today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).   “Never have we recorded such a staggering number of displacements related to conflict,” said IDMC director Tracy Lucas. “As conflicts are intensifying, it is often the same people who are uprooted again and again. Yet the systems meant to protect them are being dismantled.”   The number of internal displacements includes each instance a person is forced to flee within the borders of their own country, often multiple times over the course of the year.   Meanwhile, the number of people living in internal displacement remained near record levels, at 82.2 million, the second-highest figure ever recorded.   Emerging, escalating and entrenched conflicts forced people to move repeatedly within their countries, driving a 60 per cent increase in conflict displacements compared with 2024. As instability deepened throughout the year, Iran, with 10 million internal displacements, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 9.7 million, together represented two-thirds of conflict displacements.   Disasters also continued to drive large-scale forced movement. Storms, floods and other hazards triggered 29.9 million internal displacements in 2025, a 35 per cent decrease compared with the exceptionally high levels of 2024, but still 13 per cent above the annual average of the past decade.   Countries previously less affected recorded large-scale displacements, while previous hotspots continued to be exposed, pointing to the ever-evolving patterns linked to a changing climate and need to invest in climate adaptation. Wildfires illustrated this shift by becoming an increasingly significant driver of displacement globally, accounting for more than 694,000 displacements in 2025, the hazard’s second-highest figure recorded in the past decade.   While the total number of internally displaced people fell slightly compared with 2024, it remained close to its historic peak. The decline was partly linked to reported returns, many of which took place under fragile conditions.   “Internal displacement of tens of millions is a sign of a global collapse in prevention of conflict and basic protection of civilians,” said Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). “Countless families are returning to destroyed homes and disappearing services - or cannot return at all. From DR Congo and Sudan to Iran and Lebanon, we see millions more displaced on top of the previous record numbers driven out if their homes. We cannot continue like this.”   Internal displacement remained highly concentrated: nearly half of all conflict IDPs (31.4 million) lived in just five countries, with Sudan hosting the largest number for the third consecutive year (9.1 million), followed by Colombia (7.2 m), Syria (6 m), Yemen (4.8 m) and Afghanistan (4.4 m).   In 2025, data availability declined in several contexts due to fewer assessments and reduced coverage, limiting visibility on displacement dynamics and the situation of displaced people.   “Reliable displacement data is critical for understanding where needs and risks are greatest and for ensuring that policies and resources match the scale of the challenge,” Lucas said. “With rising needs and shrinking resources, investing in national data systems and coordination remains essential.”   Global instability deepened in 2025, driving internal displacement to near-record levels worldwide. A total of 62.2 million internal displacements were reported during the year, including a record 32.3 million displacements caused by conflict and violence and 29.9 million caused by disasters.   Disaster displacements declined from the extreme highs of 2024, but risks remain severe. The 29.9 million disaster displacements recorded in 2025 were still 13 per cent above the average of the past decade, underscoring the fluctuating but persistent toll of climate and weather shocks.   Growing data gaps risk hiding the scale and impact of the crises. In 2025, IDMC observed reduced displacement data availability in 15 per cent of monitored countries, three times the share of 2024.   What is needed to reduce the number of IDPs?   Humanitarian aid alone will not suffice to reduce the scale of displacement. To help IDPs put a sustainable end to their situation, governments need to set up policies and take actions that resolve conflicts and build peace, reduce poverty and disaster risk, and enable people to return, resettle, or locally integrate in host communities. Data on displacement and solutions will continue to be key to inform such policies and actions moving forward.   * The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) is the world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. Since its establishment in 1998 as part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), IDMC has provided high-quality data, analysis and expertise on internal displacement to inform policy and operational decisions that can improve the lives of internally displaced people (IDPs) worldwide and reduce the risk of future displacement.   http://www.internal-displacement.org/news/conflict-and-violence-become-the-leading-driver-of-internal-displacements/ http://www.internal-displacement.org/global-report/grid2026/ http://www.nrc.no/news/2026/conflict-and-violence-become-the-leading-driver-of-internal-displacements http://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2026/does-foreign-aid-really-make-a-difference http://www.nrc.no/feature/2025/a-global-displacement-crisis-as-the-world-abandons-aid http://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing-notes/unhcr-middle-east-crisis-ripple-effects-strain-aid-efforts-beyond-region http://www.unhcr.org/news/announcements/acute-food-insecurity-and-malnutrition-remain-alarmingly-high-crises-deepen-un Visit the related web page
	Let’s show that humanity can do better by United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs   Geneva, 11 March 2026   Remarks at Press Conference on 87 Million Lives Campaign by Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. (Extract):   "I want to start by saying that we’re living through a moment right now of grave peril across the Middle East. We’re seeing these crises escalate rapidly and increasingly collide in dangerous ways. We’re seeing violence reverberate across borders, displacement, economic shocks, soaring humanitarian needs – and we’re seeing the consequences spread faster than we can respond.   Later this afternoon, I’ll make three asks of the United Nations Security Council.   Firstly, that civilians, all civilians, wherever they are in the region, must be protected. Constant care must be taken to spare civilians and critical civilian infrastructure, schools, hospitals, at all times and by all parties. And humanitarians must be protected and our movements facilitated.   My second ask: we must be supported to go wherever the needs are in the region. I’ve reaffirmed our readiness to help Lebanese, Iranian, Palestinian, Israeli or other civilians, as needed. Humanitarian action is always harder in times of war, but this is, of course, when it is most needed. We call on Member States to help ensure that our life-saving work continues.   And a third ask of the Security Council is for a revival of strategic, calm, rational, patient, hopeful diplomacy – we need calmer heads to prevail. Peacemaking is hard, but it is always better and takes more courage than the alternatives.   So, every time you hear the powerful attack the UN, ask yourself what they gain by weakening us. Let’s have the courage instead, to recommit to lasting peace, sustained stability, dependable governance and international law.   The developments of the last two weeks are further confirmation that we’re living in a time of brutality, impunity and indifference. The rules-based scaffolding meant to restrain the worst excesses of war is cracking.   Human ingenuity is being applied to find ever more sinister ways to kill at scale, while civilians are subjected to ever more abject violence.   Aid workers are increasingly under attack. Just today, three more of my humanitarian colleagues, in Sudan, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in Lebanon have, I’m afraid, been killed.   So, this is a tough moment for humanitarian action. We are overstretched, under sustained attack and under-resourced, but we refuse to retreat from our principles and we refuse to retreat from our mission. We refuse to give up on the people who rely on us to survive.   Ans that’s why today I actually want to talk a bit about something more uplifting: a global mission to rediscover solidarity and humanity, even in these toughest of times.   Just over 87 days ago, the humanitarian community unveiled a hyper-prioritized humanitarian plan calling for $23 billion to reach 87 million people this year with life-saving support.   87 million people, more than died in the Second World War, the catastrophe that, of course, led to the creation of the United Nations. And of course, behind every number is a life, is a story.   We gave ourselves 87 days to challenge Member States to back this plan with resolve, with resources, with a determination to deliver in 2026. Of course, the real needs are far greater than just those 87 million lives. And, of course, we have vital, vital appeals that go well beyond $23 billion, but what we’ve done here is to prioritize on the basis of greatest need, where the most urgent cases are that we must respond to first.   This plan will be delivered by around 2,000 humanitarian organizations across our extraordinary global humanitarian community. Over 60 per cent of them are local partners, local organizations.   In January, we reached over 7 million people with life-saving support – and they are the 7 million people facing the most severe needs in the most hard-to-reach places across 17 of our operations. In Sudan alone, we reached almost 2 million people in January, despite the security challenges we face.   Imagine delivering that same result every month, this year: 7 million lives a month. We can do that if we get the support we need, and we would then reach our target of saving 87 million lives across the year.   I said over 87 days ago, when we announced this plan that we would set out where we were on the funding at this stage. So far we've received $5 billion for the plan, with additional pledges and announcements, bringing the total to $8.7 billion. But we still face a massive gap without additional support, millions of people will die.   So we need those countries who’ve made these pledges to deliver that disbursement quickly. We need those who have more funds available to get those funds moving fast towards this plan in the first half of the year, not the second half, to allow us to deliver where support is most needed. And we need more partners to come forward, from the private sector, everyone who can to join this global effort.   We still need over $14 billion now to deliver this plan, and this is at a time when conflict in the Middle East is costing $1 billion dollars a day. Listen to that number and feel the shame that I feel that we’re spending a billion dollars a day on this war. Even just $1 billion would allow us to save millions of lives.   So the choice is, are we going to close this gap? The resources exist, but does the solidarity?   We’re not asking you to choose between a hospital in Brooklyn, London, Mexico City, Rio, Manila, or a hospital in Kandahar, Akobo, Aleppo, Port-au-Prince. We’re asking you just to recognize that maybe the world can spend a little less on weapons this year and more on saving lives. (In 2025, Global military spending was $2.7 trillion)   A recent global survey demonstrated that supporters of international aid outnumber opponents by four to one. There is a movement of billions supporters out there.   I believe that when people understand what humanitarian funding represents and delivers, they overwhelmingly support this action – it’s about solidarity, humanity, kindness.   Our ask, therefore, is simple. Choose solidarity. Choose this year to save 87 million lives. No one can end every crisis, but together, we can help end someone’s crisis – one life at a time. Let’s make 2026 a story of genuine solidarity and genuine hope. Let’s show that humanity can do better.   Q: You mentioned the $1 billion cost every day of the war. How much does it cost in extra humanitarian needs? In other words, do you have to already revise the plan that you unveiled in December?   Under-Secretary-General Fletcher: Yes, the cost of our response is going up, and we will have to prioritize even harder and further with the resources that we have. We basically have to make do responding to crisis as they come.   Because of the conflict in the region, we are now going to have to scale up further in places like Lebanon, for example. I’m having to use more money from the Central Emergency Response Fund to react to these crises across the region. And every time we do that, it means that we have to deprioritize the response elsewhere at a time when, as I say, the needs go well beyond the 87 million people in critical need.   I’m also really worried about rising food costs, energy costs, fertilizer costs as this conflict goes on. I’m worried that further escalation will damage other supply routes. All of this has a direct impact on our humanitarian supplies, including going to areas of key need in sub-Saharan Africa. But more broadly, the conflict drives up the prices and so drives more people into greater need.   Q: I was wondering what kind of contingency plans you are looking at for the region – if you have any estimates yet, of the numbers of numbers of people, more people who will be in need or who will be displaced because of the conflict now. Is there any way of estimating that? Also, you mentioned that you’re calling on countries to spend less on weapons and more on solidarity, but I think the trend that we’re seeing right now is going in the opposite direction, with more spending on a lot of arms.   Under-Secretary-General Fletcher: It’s hard for us to predict how many will be displaced, but already, hundreds of thousands of people are on the move. Many in Iran are internally displaced at the moment.. Of course, that’s already happening in Lebanon, where you have hundreds of thousands displaced.. Those numbers are very worrying, and every day of the war pushes more people away from their homes and their communities. I’m sorry, the second question?   Q: It was on the weapons spending.   Under-Secretary-General Fletcher: I think the world has decided that it’s far more interested in spending enormous amounts of money developing increasingly deadly weapons than it is on saving lives. It seems to have decided that it hasn’t got time to work on ensuring that the rules that govern these weapons, these lethal autonomous weapons, keep up with the pace of technology.   So you’ve got this dangerous alliance between very innovative technology and huge amounts of money and people’s desire to kill more people – and that’s a toxic combination. Last year, 90 per cent of all deaths caused by drones and other explosive weapons in populated areas were civilians.   And we’re seeing that across the crises on which we work – whether it’s Gaza, Sudan or in Ukraine, we’re seeing these bad practices move between crises. The bad actors are actually discovering newer ways to kill and learning from each other new ways to kill, and we’re struggling to keep up with that innovation in killing.   I’m really concerned that this conflict whenever it ends, or whenever people claim it ends, this phase of the conflict, will mean that in the next phase, people will be spending even more money on arms and defense, because they’ll be more anxious about the next conflict. There’ll be even less funding for humanitarian action.   But you also have this knock-on effect on international law and international trust. It will be even harder for us to stand up the systems and processes, the scaffolding, that’s meant to hold the world together because it’s facing such sustained attritional attack. So that’s what I mean about the warning lights are flashing red right now.   Q: Can you elaborate a little more on other areas where you need to channel funds to save lives. Besides the Middle East region, what about other crisis areas that are not getting into the spotlight, like Central and West Africa?   Under-Secretary-General Fletcher: I’m glad that you mentioned the neglected crises, because this is a big concern we have. There are many neglected crises: Gaza, Sudan, Haiti, DRC, South Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon is moving up the list as we speak, crisis in sub-Saharan Africa.. We are struggling to fundraise for the Sahel, where you have a lot of people in need. The Ukraine crisis is, of course, a massive humanitarian crisis.   What we are trying to do across these major crises and many others is to show where the gaps are and to ensure that as a world, we’re not neglecting those in real need of our support".   http://www.unognewsroom.org/story/en/3044/un-relief-chief-presser-tom-fletcher http://humanitarianaction.info/document/global-humanitarian-overview-2026 http://www.unocha.org/latest/news-and-stories   * A US Iran War Cost Tracker: http://iran-cost-ticker.com/   17 Mar. 2026   US war spending in Iran could have saved 87 million lives, says UN. (EU Observer)   The money spent by the US attacking Iran over the past two weeks could have saved the lives of 87 million people, according to the United Nations.   “The US alone has already spent more money on this conflict in the last two and a half weeks than the $23bn we need to save 87 million lives this year,” said Tom Fletcher, a senior official at the United Nations.   The Trump administration spent over $11.3bn in the first six days alone of its war against Iran.   Speaking to European lawmakers at the development committee on the 17th of March, Mr Fletcher said the $23bn also represents less than one percent of what the world will spend this year on guns and arms and defence.   “This is a very tough time to be a humanitarian. It’s a very tough time actually, to be a UN official,” he said, noting that major UN agencies and international NGOs have been forced to cut a third of their staff.   Mr Fletcher, whose full official title is UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator is appealing for greater international funding to support those in urgent need. As hundreds of child nutrition centres for severely malnourished children shut down in multiple vulnerable countries.   Last year was marked a stark reversal for global aid funding. Major donors implemented drastic cuts despite escalating crises, raising alarms about a funding shortfall. As a result, only about one-third of global humanitarian needs were funded last year.   Over 240 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, says UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).   The funding cuts has forced the UN to prioritise only 87 million people facing life threatening needs. But only $5bn has been mobilised so far, or about 15 percent of what is needed.   http://euobserver.com/207273/us-war-spending-in-iran-could-have-saved-87-million-lives-says-un/   * The Iran War Is Breaking Global Humanitarian Aid Efforts   The war in Iran has triggered severe global economic disruption, choking off disaster relief supply chains and spiking oil prices—further exacerbating existing humanitarian crises. Sam Vigersky an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations calls on the Trump administration to immediately release the $5.5 billion that the US Congress recently appropriated to the WFP, UNHCR, and NGOs working mitigate the global fallout from the crisis.   "Even that funding would not contain what is unfolding across the globe. That figure is less than half of what the United States historically devoted toward international humanitarian response, and it arrives at a moment of growing need. Still, releasing those funds would be an immediate, and desperately needed, first step. As Congress debates supplemental funding for the war with Iran, the United States already has money appropriated for a humanitarian response sitting inside the State Department. Moving it quickly—and following up with a larger surge of funding—may determine whether millions of people teetering on the edge of survival fall into catastrophe".   http://www.unops.org/news-and-stories/speeches/millions-of-people-around-the-world-at-risk-over-three-weeks-on-the-war-in-the-middle-east http://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-projects-food-insecurity-could-reach-record-levels-result-middle-east-escalation http://www.unocha.org/news/closure-hormuz-could-have-immense-impact-humanitarian-operations-un-relief-chief-warns http://www.rescue.org/press-release/closure-strait-hormuz-and-regional-airspace-closures Visit the related web page
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