Archive for June 15th, 2025

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15/06/2025

Biggest-Ever Aid Cut by G7 Members a Death Sentence for Millions of People

Human Wrongs Watch

By Oxfam*

ALBERTA, Canada, Jun 13 2025 (IPS)* – Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment.
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Credit: United Nations The 51st G7 summit is scheduled to take place 15-17 June 2025 in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. The G7 consists of seven of the world’s largest developed economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States plus the European Union (EU), a non-enumerated member.

G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and reneging on their international commitments.

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15/06/2025

What Is Famine and Who Is at Risk?

Human Wrongs Watch

By the World Food Programme*

— Famine is defined as “extreme food deprivation” by the Integrated Food Security Classification, or IPC, the global hunger monitoring body. It is at the extreme end of IPC Phase 5, the highest hunger level under the IPC’s classification. Not all IPC 5 areas are in famine.
A man carries a box of food assistance in Tawila, Sudan - the only country where famine is currently confirmed. Photo: WFP Mohamed Galal
WFP food assistance arriving in Sudan’s North Darfur State, where pockets of famine have been confirmed. Photo: WFP/Mohamed Galal

Famine is rare, predictable and – with the right resources, political will and action –  preventable. Vulnerable population groups such as young children, pregnant and nursing women and displaced people are most at risk of hunger emergencies.

Once a famine is declared, many people have already died of starvation, and it’s hard to slow it down.

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