{"id":140741,"date":"2025-06-05T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/they-will-die-foreign-aid-cuts-hit-women-and-girls-the-hardest-as-ngos-face-closure\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:35:56","slug":"they-will-die-foreign-aid-cuts-hit-women-and-girls-the-hardest-as-ngos-face-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/they-will-die-foreign-aid-cuts-hit-women-and-girls-the-hardest-as-ngos-face-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019They will die\u2019: Foreign aid cuts hit women and girls the hardest as NGOs face closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140741\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nReduced aid funding threatens the lives of women and girls worldwide as many NGOs that support them predict they will be forced to shut down soon. Young girls are denied an education and forced into child labour or early marriage, pregnant women in refugee camps have to give birth without a midwife, female survivors of rape, sex workers and HIV patients are left without shelter or support.<\/p>\n<p>These are not hypothetical scenarios or stark warnings, but the real and current impacts of massive foreign aid cuts on NGOs that support women and girls in war and conflict zones and crisis-stricken countries ranging from Gaza to Ukraine, several aid groups told Euronews. Women-led and women\u2019s rights groups operating on the frontlines of humanitarian crises have been hit the hardest \u2014 with almost half of all such organisations expecting to shut down within six months due to a lack of funding, warned a recent report by UN Women.<\/p>\n<p>A survey it conducted in March of 411 women-led and women&#8217;s rights organisations across 44 countries also found that nearly three-quarters of the groups had already laid off staff while just over half had suspended programmes due to funding cuts. \u201cSimply put, women and girls will die from lack of access to these services,\u201d said Sabine Freizer Gunes, UN Women\u2019s country representative in Ukraine. \u201cThis situation will worsen as women\u2019s organisations providing vital services are forced to close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International aid fell in 2024 for the first time in six years, and over the last year or so, top donor governments have announced cuts to overseas development assistance (ODA), including Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US \u2014 the world\u2019s largest donor. The administration of US President Donald Trump has dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and slashed billions of dollars for aid projects globally. Only 11.1% of the $46 billion (\u20ac40.6bn) required for global humanitarian needs in 2025 has been funded, forcing the entire aid system to reform and cut back, UN Women said.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Sang, head of advocacy and policy at CARE International UK, described the responses to UN Women&#8217;s survey as \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d, and said it was not just a case of \u201cabstract losses or numbers on a spreadsheet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about daily, human experience: a girl who no longer has a safe space to learn; a mother giving birth without medical support; a survivor of violence turned away from a shelter that\u2019s been closed,\u201d she told Euronews. \u201cThe international aid architecture is being turned on its head and while we of course want to see vital aid being restored \u2014 we need to make sure the decisions being made right now do not leave a legacy of destruction for women and girls,\u201d Sang added.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/06\/04\/they-will-die-foreign-aid-cuts-hit-women-and-girls-the-hardest-as-ngos-face-closure\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/06\/04\/they-will-die-foreign-aid-cuts-hit-women-and-girls-the-hardest-as-ngos-face-closure\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/they-will-die-foreign-aid-cuts-hit-women-and-girls-the-hardest-as-ngos-face-closure\/\">\u2019They will die\u2019: Foreign aid cuts hit women and girls the hardest as NGOs face closure<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[555,19006,655],"class_list":["post-140741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-csr-news-en","tag-foreign-aid-cuts","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}