Global Humanitarian Overview: Aid cuts and inaction threaten millions

For millions of people, 2025 has been a year of hardship amid escalating conflicts, hunger, displacement, climate disasters, and inequality. The number and intensity of conflicts worldwide are at their highest since 1946, threatening global peace and security.

Threats to the global humanitarian situation include political pushback against inclusion and gender equality. Violations of international humanitarian law are ignored, aid is obstructed, and humanitarian and healthcare workers are being killed or injured in record numbers. Further, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of starvation and gender-based violence as weapons, draw condemnation but little or no action to protect civilians. Women of all ages, children, people living with disabilities, and older persons are among the hardest hit.

Today’s humanitarian crisis is the result—in large part—of a lack of political leadership. Despite much-publicised peace deals, there is no political will to maintain peace or hold perpetrators of international crimes accountable. Many crises have persisted for decades, with a total failure to address the underlying causes.

Finally, brutal cuts to humanitarian assistance have plunged communities deeply into poverty and deprivation, stripping resources from local and national organisations that these people rely on.

This situation must not be allowed to persist.

Read the full statement here.