{"id":39258,"date":"2026-07-10T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39258"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:02:52","slug":"one-million-women-lose-aid-access-due-to-funding-cuts-un","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/one-million-women-lose-aid-access-due-to-funding-cuts-un\/","title":{"rendered":"One million women lose aid access due to funding cuts: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">At least one million women and girls have lost access to \u200clife-saving support within the last year due to global donor aid cuts, a new United Nations (UN) report on Friday found.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nearly nine in 10 women\u2019s organisations can no longer meet the needs on the ground despite a large increase \u200bin demand since January last year, following the steepest drop in aid funding on record, the \u200bUN Women report found.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The United States (US) President Donald Trump administration slashed billions of dollars in foreign assistance this \u2060year, while other major international donors have also reduced aid budgets due to fiscal pressures and \u200bincreased defence spending.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The US had previously been the world&#8217;s largest aid donor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some 120 million women and \u200bgirls require humanitarian assistance and protection worldwide.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, 40% of the 855 women&#8217;s organisations surveyed in countries such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Haiti are at risk of shutting down temporarily or permanently within \u200bthe next year due to a shortage of funds, the report found.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37901,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39258","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"One million women and girls have lost access to \u200clife-saving support","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39259,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39258\/revisions\/39259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}