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According to the CEO of Catholic Relief Services, one of the largest recipients of USAID funding, “We had over 130,000 metric tons of American food sitting in warehouses overseas, and we couldn't distribute it. Vaccines, polio vaccines for kids, we had them in the clinic. We couldn't give them out. Treatment for HIV and AIDS, at first, some of that was frozen, so we can't give antiviral therapy to a mother or a child.”
PBS, 5/27/25
“In Colombia, Trump’s aid freeze is undermining another of his key objectives: keeping migrants away from the U.S. southern border. Venezuelans have made up one of the largest nationalities crossing the southern border in recent years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Many of them previously lived in South American countries before migrating north and crossing the Darién Gap, a dangerous jungle crossing connecting Colombia and Panama.”
Foreign Policy, 05/14/2025
Hillary Onek, Uganda’s minster for refugees, has warned that following U.S. and European aid cuts, “[i]t’s impossible for us now to shoulder the burden of refugee challenge alone. I see there is going to be impending confusion, increased violence and war.”
The Guardian, 05/08/2025
“Several U.N. agencies that provide aid to children, refugees and other vulnerable people around the world are slashing jobs or cutting costs in other ways, with officials pointing to funding reductions mainly from the United States and warning that vital relief programs will be severely affected as a result. The U.N. World Food Program is expected to cut up to 30% of its staff. The head of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said it would downsize its headquarters and regional offices to reduce costs by 30% and cut senior-level positions by 50%.”
PBS, 4/29/25
In Guatemala, a program “to provide legal and psychosocial support to the Mujeres Achí, a group of ethnic-minority women in Guatemala who endured extreme sexual violence during the country’s internal armed conflict in the early 1980s” was forced to end just as the women were about to go to trial.
ABA Journal, 04/09/2025
Scholarships funded by USAID to support Afghan women pursuing higher education have been shut down. “It is unclear if [the American University of Afghanistan] classes will be able to continue this semester.”
NPR, 04/08/2025
In Myanmar, “a 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through the country’s heavily populated center on Friday” with more than 1,700 people killed. China, Russia and other countries have sent aid and emergency response teams to the country, but the United States has been slow to respond. “On Sunday, the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar announced on its website that the United States would provide up to $2 million in aid, dispersed through humanitarian groups based in Myanmar. But many of the systems needed to funnel American aid to Myanmar have been shattered.”
New York Times, 03/30/2025
“In the Democratic Republic of Congo, over 21,300 children in war-torn South Kivu have had lost access to learning materials and training for their teachers.”
Save the Children, 3/27/25
“Tens of thousands are people will die as a result of foreign aid cuts to humanitarian programmes in the poorest countries in the world, according to one Canadian charity operating in South Sudan.”
The Irish News, 03/26/2025
“In FY 2024, the U.S. allocated $607.5 million for [global family planning programs], including $32.5 million in appropriated funding for UNFPA. If these critical funds are not renewed and spent as appropriated, over the course of one year, 47.6 million women and couples will be denied modern contraceptives, resulting in 17.1 million unintended pregnancies and 34,000 preventable pregnancy-related deaths. Every day without this aid, 130,390 women lose access to contraceptive services.”
Ms. Magazine, 3/19/25
Arm and Arm, a Minnesota-based organization in Africa, works closely with partners in South Africa to supply “food relief, health care, education and empowerment” and were warned that “without a question people will die without the U.S.A.I.D. funding.”
Kare11, 03/17/2025
“[I]n Thailand, [the International Organization for Migration’s] assistance to detained minorities, including Uyghurs and the Rohingya community, has ceased, depriving them of a vital source of food assistance, health care, hygiene supplies, and mental health services.”
Devex, 03/13/2025
In Zambia, a program to protect women and combat gender-based violence in remote fishing camps has been shut down. These women and girls are now “at risk of being forced into exploitative “sex for fish” practices.”
ReliefWeb, 03/08/2025
A field hospital in Sudan that delivered approximately 50 babies a week to women with complicated pregnancies has been closed. “The hospital served women living more six hours from the next closest health facility.”
Devex, 02/28/2025
Programs to support “[e]ighty-seven shelters that took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
In Afghanistan, “secret schools” educating hundreds of Afghan girls have been suspended. Classes at the American University of Afghanistan, an online school and one of the last remaining options for higher education for women in the country, have also been suspended.
The New York Times, 02/21/2025; NPR, 02/11/2025
The Family Planning Organization of the Philippines was supposed to start a new project to raise awareness and reduce teen pregnancies, which have been on the rise, particularly among girls under 15 years old. The project is now on hold.
Devex, 02/13/2025
In Burkina Faso, a program tracking violence against Christian communities has been halted, leaving the communities more vulnerable to attacks.
Devex, 02/11/2025
In Peru and Ecuador, nearly 100,000 refugees will lose services that help them stay, rather than migrate to the United States.
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
PEPFAR will be unable to provide services to 3,618 people experiencing domestic and sexual violence every day. This includes things like rape kits, HIV testing, post-exposure prophylaxis, and other essential services.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
As many as 1,000 migrants are seeking asylum in Mexico every day. Due to the foreign aid freeze, “nonprofit shelters, legal aid providers and other groups that work with migrants in Mexico [have been forced to] lay off staff members or suspend their operations.”
Los Angeles Times, 03/04/2025
In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a program supporting 80 radio stations that provided vital information regarding which areas were safe for displaced persons to flee to, was terminated.
Devex, 02/28/2025
In southwest Uganda, a nonprofit managing the transit centers for thousands of Congolese refugees—particularly children arriving alone and women fleeing sexual violence and rape—has had to cut both its mental health and livelihoods programs.
Devex, 02/17/2025
Programs and resources for Venezuelan migrants to receive Temporary Protection Permits (PPT) and be regularized in Colombia have been suspended, leaving the migrants unable to access health care and work permits, among other challenges.
Voice Of America, 02/12/2025
In Brazil, support for the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on “conservation and improving livelihoods for Indigenous peoples and other forest communities,” has been frozen.
AP, 02/05/2025
“In Tanzania, more than 50,000 children face having their education disrupted or completely stopped due to aid cuts, with one headteacher in a refugee camp in the country's north-west saying this was having ‘heartbreaking consequences’ for children.”
Save the Children, 3/27/25
In Lebanon, “over 500,000 children and their families risk losing critical subsistence cash support from UN agencies, stripping the most vulnerable of their last lifeline.”
Forbes, 03/27/2025
The UN’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR), is being forced to contemplate a 5,000–6,000 reduction in its workforce, with the agency’s high commissioner warning, “The consequences for people fleeing danger will be immediate and devastating. Refugee women and girls at extreme risk of rape and other abuses are already losing access to services that keep them safe. Children are being left without teachers or schools, pushing them into child labour, trafficking, or early marriage.”
Devex, 03/20/2025
The United Nationals Population Fund, which receives 70% of its funding for its humanitarian response in eastern Chad from the State Department, says that if the freeze isn’t lifted by the end of March they will have to stop “health care services gap for pregnant women fleeing Sudan in search of a safe place to live and give birth to their unborn children.”
ABC News, 3/19/25
“In Myanmar, [the International Organization for Migration] has shuttered an emergency food program for more than 135,000 conflict- and disaster-affected people. An additional 500,00 others will lose access to clean water, health care, shelter, and sanitation services.”
Devex, 03/13/2025
More than 400 Burmese students lost their scholarships for higher education. Over a quarter of the students had fled Myanmar following the military coup.
Voice of America, 01/31/2025
The Trump administration is attempting to move overseas disaster response functions from USAID to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, but is only hiring “20 experts out of the roughly 525 who did the work at” USAID.
Reuters, 5/21/2025
“The Danish Refugee Council, a major humanitarian group, said it will end its relief programmes in [Burundi, Central African Republic, Georgia, Kosovo, Mexico, and Tanzania,” following cuts to U.S. aid.
Reuters, 05/14/2025
“Due in part to the Trump administration’s devastating cuts to foreign aid, only a skeleton staff of international humanitarian workers are on hand to receive” Sudanese refugees fleeing to Tiné, Chad. “There are shortages of food, water, medicine, and shelter in Tiné, and few resources to move people anywhere else.”
The Atlantic, 05/12/25
“Myanmar residents forced to flee their homes for camps across the border in Thailand are facing growing hardship amid cuts to international aid, with more than 108,000 people now struggling to access stable food supplies, civil society organizations told Radio Free Asia.”
RFA, 05/07/2025
The U.N. refugee agency in Mexico has closed four offices in the country and laid off 190 people due to the “serious funding crisis” facing the agency, the head of UNHCR in Mexico said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump slashed overseas aid.
Reuters, 4/29/25
In Afghanistan, “a new $24 million grant from the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, to fight gender-based violence, provide psychosocial support, and other health services across the country” was terminated. A similar $17.1 million grant for UNFPA programming in Syria was also terminated.
Devex, 04/08/2025
The USAID workers sent to Myanmar to “assess how the United States could help with earthquake relief efforts” were terminated while in the country. “The three experienced aid workers got termination emails addressed specifically to them just days after arriving in Myanmar.”
New York Times, 04/06/2025
In Sinjar, Iraq—a town where thousands of Yazidis had previously been massacred by the Islamic State—the foreign aid freeze “has halted operations to provide water and electricity, primary healthcare centres, the construction of schools, community centres and other basic infrastructure at a time when thousands of Yazidis are returning home after more than a decade in Syrian refugee camps.”
The Guardian, 02/13/2025
Shelter programs for minors seeking protection from criminal gang recruitment in Central America have been halted.
Devex, 02/11/2025
In the Honduras and Guatemala, more than 22,000 women and girls will lose access to services that protect them from domestic violence.
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
In Brazil, two organizations working to assist Venezuelans fleeing Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship shut down their operations.
The Guardian, 01/30/2025
“Funding to the exiled Tibetan government has been cut by a third, freezing projects worth $12 million annually.” “For decades, U.S. funding has helped tens of thousands of Tibetan refugees from China, with their thriving community across the border in India representing a small but symbolic counterweight to Beijing’s rising power.”
Washington Post, 3/28/25
“In Syria's Al Hol Camp, the closure of Save the Children's two temporary learning spaces has taken away safe spaces for education and mental health services for 640 children who face high levels of child labour and violence.”
Save the Children, 3/27/25
In Bangladesh, the Refugee Agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration warned that the “funding shortfalls in critical areas, including reductions to food assistance, cooking fuel or basic shelter, will have dire consequences for this highly vulnerable population and may force many to resort to desperate measures, such as embarking on dangerous boat journeys to seek safety.”
U.S. News, 03/24/2025
In Bangladesh, the Refugee Agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration warned that the “funding shortfalls in critical areas, including reductions to food assistance, cooking fuel or basic shelter, will have dire consequences for this highly vulnerable population and may force many to resort to desperate measures, such as embarking on dangerous boat journeys to seek safety.”
U.S. News, 03/24/2025
A program to assist and ensure the unaccompanied children fleeing the civil war and famine in Sudan are not trafficked, has been canceled. A program to provide free medical care to refugees and sexual assault survivors in South Sudan has also been terminated.
The New York Times, 03/15/2025
“More than 80 Afghan women who fled the Taliban to pursue higher education in Oman now face imminent return back to Afghanistan” because their scholarships, funded by USAID, have been terminated.”
BBC, 03/06/2025
In Sudan, a program led by Search for Common Ground, which had “brought the only delegation of women to U.S.-led peace talks — ultimately leading to the opening of a humanitarian corridor in Darfur” was terminated.
Devex, 02/28/2025
130,390 women will be denied contraceptive care every day. Over the course of the full 90-day review period, 11.7 million women and girls will be denied essential contraceptive care. Of those 11.7 million, 4.2 million will experience unintended pregnancies, and 8,340 will die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
Guttmacher Institute, 01/2025
“The Trump administration has devised plans to spend up to $250 million earmarked for foreign assistance to fund instead the removal and return of people from active conflict zones, including 700,000 Ukrainian and Haitian migrants who fled to the United States amid extreme, ongoing violence back home.”
Washington Post, 5/20/2025
A recently issued “survey shows half of women’s organizations aiding women in crises may shut down in six months due to global aid cuts.” “A staggering 51 per cent of organizations have already been forced to suspend programmes, including those for supporting survivors of gender-based violence or those which provide critical access to protection, livelihoods, multi-purpose cash and health care. Almost three-quarters (72 per cent) report having been forced to lay off staff—many at significant levels.”
ReliefWeb, 05/13/25
In Kenya, hundreds of refugees at the Dadaab refuge complex staged a peaceful demonstration to voice their concerns about the negative impacts from the USAID funding cuts, which have resulted in drastically reduced food rations. “As we speak all the humanitarian services are down, we fear that the quality of education for our children in the refugee camps could be affected and the lack of teachers, these funding cuts have affected every aspect of our lives,” said Mohamed Abdi, a refugee who lives in Hagadera camp.
The Standard, 05/06/2025
The progress that has been made to reduce global maternal mortality is being threatened by the foreign aid cuts. “Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births dropped by about 40 percent worldwide between 2000 and 2023” but “cuts have led to facility closures and loss of health workers, while also disrupting supply chains for lifesaving supplies and medicines such as treatments for hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and malaria – all leading causes of maternal deaths.”
The Hill, 04/13/25
Church World Service, a faith-based American organization that focuses on disaster relief and refugee assistance, “had 27 grants with partners across Haiti worth more than $10 million that targeted nearly 82,000 people.” Already, the foundation reports “an estimated 500 to 600 Haitians being denied medical care each month; in some 14,500 Haitians losing access to seed loans, tools and other services; and in 40% fewer loans being available, according to the report.”
AP News, 04/4/25
Supporting Vulnerable Populations
According to the CEO of Catholic Relief Services, one of the largest recipients of USAID funding, “We had over 130,000 metric tons of American food sitting in warehouses overseas, and we couldn't distribute it. Vaccines, polio vaccines for kids, we had them in the clinic. We couldn't give them out. Treatment for HIV and AIDS, at first, some of that was frozen, so we can't give antiviral therapy to a mother or a child.”
PBS, 5/27/25
“In Colombia, Trump’s aid freeze is undermining another of his key objectives: keeping migrants away from the U.S. southern border. Venezuelans have made up one of the largest nationalities crossing the southern border in recent years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Many of them previously lived in South American countries before migrating north and crossing the Darién Gap, a dangerous jungle crossing connecting Colombia and Panama.”
Foreign Policy, 05/14/2025
Hillary Onek, Uganda’s minster for refugees, has warned that following U.S. and European aid cuts, “[i]t’s impossible for us now to shoulder the burden of refugee challenge alone. I see there is going to be impending confusion, increased violence and war.”
The Guardian, 05/08/2025
“Several U.N. agencies that provide aid to children, refugees and other vulnerable people around the world are slashing jobs or cutting costs in other ways, with officials pointing to funding reductions mainly from the United States and warning that vital relief programs will be severely affected as a result. The U.N. World Food Program is expected to cut up to 30% of its staff. The head of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said it would downsize its headquarters and regional offices to reduce costs by 30% and cut senior-level positions by 50%.”
PBS, 4/29/25
In Guatemala, a program “to provide legal and psychosocial support to the Mujeres Achí, a group of ethnic-minority women in Guatemala who endured extreme sexual violence during the country’s internal armed conflict in the early 1980s” was forced to end just as the women were about to go to trial.
ABA Journal, 04/09/2025
Scholarships funded by USAID to support Afghan women pursuing higher education have been shut down. “It is unclear if [the American University of Afghanistan] classes will be able to continue this semester.”
NPR, 04/08/2025
In Myanmar, “a 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through the country’s heavily populated center on Friday” with more than 1,700 people killed. China, Russia and other countries have sent aid and emergency response teams to the country, but the United States has been slow to respond. “On Sunday, the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar announced on its website that the United States would provide up to $2 million in aid, dispersed through humanitarian groups based in Myanmar. But many of the systems needed to funnel American aid to Myanmar have been shattered.”
New York Times, 03/30/2025
“In the Democratic Republic of Congo, over 21,300 children in war-torn South Kivu have had lost access to learning materials and training for their teachers.”
Save the Children, 3/27/25
“Tens of thousands are people will die as a result of foreign aid cuts to humanitarian programmes in the poorest countries in the world, according to one Canadian charity operating in South Sudan.”
The Irish News, 03/26/2025
“In FY 2024, the U.S. allocated $607.5 million for [global family planning programs], including $32.5 million in appropriated funding for UNFPA. If these critical funds are not renewed and spent as appropriated, over the course of one year, 47.6 million women and couples will be denied modern contraceptives, resulting in 17.1 million unintended pregnancies and 34,000 preventable pregnancy-related deaths. Every day without this aid, 130,390 women lose access to contraceptive services.”
Ms. Magazine, 3/19/25
Arm and Arm, a Minnesota-based organization in Africa, works closely with partners in South Africa to supply “food relief, health care, education and empowerment” and were warned that “without a question people will die without the U.S.A.I.D. funding.”
Kare11, 03/17/2025
“[I]n Thailand, [the International Organization for Migration’s] assistance to detained minorities, including Uyghurs and the Rohingya community, has ceased, depriving them of a vital source of food assistance, health care, hygiene supplies, and mental health services.”
Devex, 03/13/2025
In Zambia, a program to protect women and combat gender-based violence in remote fishing camps has been shut down. These women and girls are now “at risk of being forced into exploitative “sex for fish” practices.”
ReliefWeb, 03/08/2025
A field hospital in Sudan that delivered approximately 50 babies a week to women with complicated pregnancies has been closed. “The hospital served women living more six hours from the next closest health facility.”
Devex, 02/28/2025
Programs to support “[e]ighty-seven shelters that took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
In Afghanistan, “secret schools” educating hundreds of Afghan girls have been suspended. Classes at the American University of Afghanistan, an online school and one of the last remaining options for higher education for women in the country, have also been suspended.
The New York Times, 02/21/2025; NPR, 02/11/2025
The Family Planning Organization of the Philippines was supposed to start a new project to raise awareness and reduce teen pregnancies, which have been on the rise, particularly among girls under 15 years old. The project is now on hold.
Devex, 02/13/2025
In Burkina Faso, a program tracking violence against Christian communities has been halted, leaving the communities more vulnerable to attacks.
Devex, 02/11/2025
In Peru and Ecuador, nearly 100,000 refugees will lose services that help them stay, rather than migrate to the United States.
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
PEPFAR will be unable to provide services to 3,618 people experiencing domestic and sexual violence every day. This includes things like rape kits, HIV testing, post-exposure prophylaxis, and other essential services.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
As many as 1,000 migrants are seeking asylum in Mexico every day. Due to the foreign aid freeze, “nonprofit shelters, legal aid providers and other groups that work with migrants in Mexico [have been forced to] lay off staff members or suspend their operations.”
Los Angeles Times, 03/04/2025
In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a program supporting 80 radio stations that provided vital information regarding which areas were safe for displaced persons to flee to, was terminated.
Devex, 02/28/2025
In southwest Uganda, a nonprofit managing the transit centers for thousands of Congolese refugees—particularly children arriving alone and women fleeing sexual violence and rape—has had to cut both its mental health and livelihoods programs.
Devex, 02/17/2025
Programs and resources for Venezuelan migrants to receive Temporary Protection Permits (PPT) and be regularized in Colombia have been suspended, leaving the migrants unable to access health care and work permits, among other challenges.
Voice Of America, 02/12/2025
In Brazil, support for the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on “conservation and improving livelihoods for Indigenous peoples and other forest communities,” has been frozen.
AP, 02/05/2025
“In Tanzania, more than 50,000 children face having their education disrupted or completely stopped due to aid cuts, with one headteacher in a refugee camp in the country's north-west saying this was having ‘heartbreaking consequences’ for children.”
Save the Children, 3/27/25
In Lebanon, “over 500,000 children and their families risk losing critical subsistence cash support from UN agencies, stripping the most vulnerable of their last lifeline.”
Forbes, 03/27/2025
The UN’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR), is being forced to contemplate a 5,000–6,000 reduction in its workforce, with the agency’s high commissioner warning, “The consequences for people fleeing danger will be immediate and devastating. Refugee women and girls at extreme risk of rape and other abuses are already losing access to services that keep them safe. Children are being left without teachers or schools, pushing them into child labour, trafficking, or early marriage.”
Devex, 03/20/2025
The United Nationals Population Fund, which receives 70% of its funding for its humanitarian response in eastern Chad from the State Department, says that if the freeze isn’t lifted by the end of March they will have to stop “health care services gap for pregnant women fleeing Sudan in search of a safe place to live and give birth to their unborn children.”
ABC News, 3/19/25
“In Myanmar, [the International Organization for Migration] has shuttered an emergency food program for more than 135,000 conflict- and disaster-affected people. An additional 500,00 others will lose access to clean water, health care, shelter, and sanitation services.”
Devex, 03/13/2025
More than 400 Burmese students lost their scholarships for higher education. Over a quarter of the students had fled Myanmar following the military coup.
Voice of America, 01/31/2025
The Trump administration is attempting to move overseas disaster response functions from USAID to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, but is only hiring “20 experts out of the roughly 525 who did the work at” USAID.
Reuters, 5/21/2025
“The Danish Refugee Council, a major humanitarian group, said it will end its relief programmes in [Burundi, Central African Republic, Georgia, Kosovo, Mexico, and Tanzania,” following cuts to U.S. aid.
Reuters, 05/14/2025
“Due in part to the Trump administration’s devastating cuts to foreign aid, only a skeleton staff of international humanitarian workers are on hand to receive” Sudanese refugees fleeing to Tiné, Chad. “There are shortages of food, water, medicine, and shelter in Tiné, and few resources to move people anywhere else.”
The Atlantic, 05/12/25
“Myanmar residents forced to flee their homes for camps across the border in Thailand are facing growing hardship amid cuts to international aid, with more than 108,000 people now struggling to access stable food supplies, civil society organizations told Radio Free Asia.”
RFA, 05/07/2025
The U.N. refugee agency in Mexico has closed four offices in the country and laid off 190 people due to the “serious funding crisis” facing the agency, the head of UNHCR in Mexico said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump slashed overseas aid.
Reuters, 4/29/25
In Afghanistan, “a new $24 million grant from the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, to fight gender-based violence, provide psychosocial support, and other health services across the country” was terminated. A similar $17.1 million grant for UNFPA programming in Syria was also terminated.
Devex, 04/08/2025
The USAID workers sent to Myanmar to “assess how the United States could help with earthquake relief efforts” were terminated while in the country. “The three experienced aid workers got termination emails addressed specifically to them just days after arriving in Myanmar.”
New York Times, 04/06/2025
In Sinjar, Iraq—a town where thousands of Yazidis had previously been massacred by the Islamic State—the foreign aid freeze “has halted operations to provide water and electricity, primary healthcare centres, the construction of schools, community centres and other basic infrastructure at a time when thousands of Yazidis are returning home after more than a decade in Syrian refugee camps.”
The Guardian, 02/13/2025
Shelter programs for minors seeking protection from criminal gang recruitment in Central America have been halted.
Devex, 02/11/2025
In the Honduras and Guatemala, more than 22,000 women and girls will lose access to services that protect them from domestic violence.
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
In Brazil, two organizations working to assist Venezuelans fleeing Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship shut down their operations.
The Guardian, 01/30/2025
“Funding to the exiled Tibetan government has been cut by a third, freezing projects worth $12 million annually.” “For decades, U.S. funding has helped tens of thousands of Tibetan refugees from China, with their thriving community across the border in India representing a small but symbolic counterweight to Beijing’s rising power.”
Washington Post, 3/28/25
“In Syria's Al Hol Camp, the closure of Save the Children's two temporary learning spaces has taken away safe spaces for education and mental health services for 640 children who face high levels of child labour and violence.”
Save the Children, 3/27/25
In Bangladesh, the Refugee Agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration warned that the “funding shortfalls in critical areas, including reductions to food assistance, cooking fuel or basic shelter, will have dire consequences for this highly vulnerable population and may force many to resort to desperate measures, such as embarking on dangerous boat journeys to seek safety.”
U.S. News, 03/24/2025
In Bangladesh, the Refugee Agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration warned that the “funding shortfalls in critical areas, including reductions to food assistance, cooking fuel or basic shelter, will have dire consequences for this highly vulnerable population and may force many to resort to desperate measures, such as embarking on dangerous boat journeys to seek safety.”
U.S. News, 03/24/2025
A program to assist and ensure the unaccompanied children fleeing the civil war and famine in Sudan are not trafficked, has been canceled. A program to provide free medical care to refugees and sexual assault survivors in South Sudan has also been terminated.
The New York Times, 03/15/2025
“More than 80 Afghan women who fled the Taliban to pursue higher education in Oman now face imminent return back to Afghanistan” because their scholarships, funded by USAID, have been terminated.”
BBC, 03/06/2025
In Sudan, a program led by Search for Common Ground, which had “brought the only delegation of women to U.S.-led peace talks — ultimately leading to the opening of a humanitarian corridor in Darfur” was terminated.
Devex, 02/28/2025
130,390 women will be denied contraceptive care every day. Over the course of the full 90-day review period, 11.7 million women and girls will be denied essential contraceptive care. Of those 11.7 million, 4.2 million will experience unintended pregnancies, and 8,340 will die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
Guttmacher Institute, 01/2025
“The Trump administration has devised plans to spend up to $250 million earmarked for foreign assistance to fund instead the removal and return of people from active conflict zones, including 700,000 Ukrainian and Haitian migrants who fled to the United States amid extreme, ongoing violence back home.”
Washington Post, 5/20/2025
A recently issued “survey shows half of women’s organizations aiding women in crises may shut down in six months due to global aid cuts.” “A staggering 51 per cent of organizations have already been forced to suspend programmes, including those for supporting survivors of gender-based violence or those which provide critical access to protection, livelihoods, multi-purpose cash and health care. Almost three-quarters (72 per cent) report having been forced to lay off staff—many at significant levels.”
ReliefWeb, 05/13/25
In Kenya, hundreds of refugees at the Dadaab refuge complex staged a peaceful demonstration to voice their concerns about the negative impacts from the USAID funding cuts, which have resulted in drastically reduced food rations. “As we speak all the humanitarian services are down, we fear that the quality of education for our children in the refugee camps could be affected and the lack of teachers, these funding cuts have affected every aspect of our lives,” said Mohamed Abdi, a refugee who lives in Hagadera camp.
The Standard, 05/06/2025
The progress that has been made to reduce global maternal mortality is being threatened by the foreign aid cuts. “Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births dropped by about 40 percent worldwide between 2000 and 2023” but “cuts have led to facility closures and loss of health workers, while also disrupting supply chains for lifesaving supplies and medicines such as treatments for hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and malaria – all leading causes of maternal deaths.”
The Hill, 04/13/25
Church World Service, a faith-based American organization that focuses on disaster relief and refugee assistance, “had 27 grants with partners across Haiti worth more than $10 million that targeted nearly 82,000 people.” Already, the foundation reports “an estimated 500 to 600 Haitians being denied medical care each month; in some 14,500 Haitians losing access to seed loans, tools and other services; and in 40% fewer loans being available, according to the report.”
AP News, 04/4/25
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