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Globale Stärke statt Unterordnung: Bewahrt das Entwicklungsministerium!
In diesen Tagen verhandeln Union und SPD über Weichenstellungen für die Zukunft Deutschlands. Die großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit – Sicherheit, Klima, Wirtschaft und Migration – lassen sich nicht allein in Deutschland lösen, sondern nur in globaler Zusammenarbeit. Die Tagesspiegel-App Aktuelle Nachrichten, Hintergründe und Analysen direkt auf Ihr Smartphone. Dazu die digitale Zeitung. Hier gratis herunterladen.
Globale Stärke statt Unterordnung: Schleifen Union und SPD das Entwicklungsministerium?
In diesen Tagen verhandeln Union und SPD über Weichenstellungen für die Zukunft Deutschlands. Die großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit – Sicherheit, Klima, Wirtschaft und Migration – lassen sich nicht allein in Deutschland lösen, sondern nur in globaler Zusammenarbeit.
The Tigray Crisis - Famine hidden in plain sight
The rural economy of northern Ethiopia is today beginning to collapse as a catastrophic food crisis “hidden in plain sight” begins to bite. Unchecked famine should be expected to generate hundreds of thousands of starvation deaths over the coming 12 months on a scale not seen since the 1984-85 famine.
Council’s actions in trees saga were ‘serious and sustained’ leadership failure
Speaking as his report was published, Sir Mark said: “Our conclusion is that the council’s behaviour amounted to a serious and sustained failure of strategic leadership.
International aid cuts undermine the UK's commitment to clean growth
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The merger of the Foreign Office and DFID has damaged Britain's soft power. It's time to reverse it
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Why Don’t We Just… let people affected by humanitarian crises decide what help they need?
The war in Ukraine has put global humanitarian issues in the spotlight. Russian aggression and atrocities are brutalising the population. But the effects ripple out much further, with disruption of grain exports from the region leading to sharp increases in food prices round the world. That is affecting everyone, but it is bringing millions of starving people in countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen right to death’s door.
Africa: The World's Worst Food Crisis for Decades - and What to Do About It
London — This is what happens when you starve. With no food, the body's metabolism slows down to preserve energy for vital organs. Hungry and weak, people often become fatigued, irritable and confused. The immune system loses strength. As they starve, people--especially children--are likelier to fall sick or die from diseases they may have otherwise resisted. Cholera, respiratory infections, malaria, dengue, and diphtheria kill more people in famines than starvation itself.
The World’s Worst Food Crisis for Decades - and What to do About It
Development & Aid, Food Security and Nutrition, Food Sustainability, Global, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Poverty & SDGs, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Reprint | | Print | LONDON, Jun 8 2022 (IPS) - This is what happens when you starve. With no food, the body’s metabolism slows down to preserve energy for vital organs. Hungry and weak, people often become fatigued, irritable and confused. The immune system loses strength.
How to Destroy a Country: Does Ethiopia Have a Future?
Abiy has two objectives in Tigray. The first is to starve the population either into subjugation or out of existence. The second is to do that without attracting the global opprobrium that would still, even in today’s fractured geopolitical environment, arise from deliberately causing a massive famine taking millions of lives.
Investing in data saves lives
NEW YORK — When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 38 million, would experience a peak of up to 520,000 cases and 3,900 deaths per day by the beginning of summer. Facing the prospect of 10 million cases within a matter of months, aid workers and government officials braced for a public-health catastrophe.
Investing in Data Saves Lives
By Mark Lowcock & Raj Shah NEW YORK – When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 38 million, would experience a peak of up to 520,000 cases and 3,900 deaths per day by the beginning of summer. Facing the prospect of ten million cases within a matter of months, aid workers and government officials braced for a public-health catastrophe.
Opinion | Investing in data saves lives
When the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 38 million, would experience a peak of up to 520,000 cases and 3,900 deaths per day by the beginning of summer. Facing the prospect of ten million cases within a matter of months, aid workers and government officials braced for a public-health catastrophe.
Investing in data saves lives
By Mark Lowcock and Raj Shah NEW YORK — When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 38 million, would experience a peak of up to 520,000 cases and 3,900 deaths per day by the beginning of summer. Facing the prospect of ten million cases within a matter of months, aid workers and government officials braced for a public-health catastrophe.
Investing in Data Saves Lives | by Mark Lowcock & Raj Shah - Project Syndicate
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for more and better data, and the value of models in informing humanitarian response strategies. The world must now invest in data infrastructure and human capacity in order to get ahead of crises, predict future needs, and trigger responses earlier. NEW YORK – When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units.
Opinion: What’s wrong with the humanitarian aid system - and how to fix it
A Rohingya refugee holds her humanitarian aid card as she lines up to receive humanitarian aid in Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo by: Hannah McKay / Reuters The global humanitarian system is a remarkable public good. Tens of thousands of people around the world working for NGOs, Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations, and the U.N. do a good job, saving millions of lives every year and overcoming huge obstacles.
IMF’s spring meetings lack ambition for a world in crisis
The writer is the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs At the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank this week, we can...
A Global Pandemic Needs A Global Response: US Contributions to COVID Relief
The American Rescue Plan—the massive COVID-19 relief package recently signed into law—has featured in plenty of headlines. While the vast majority of the nearly $1.9 trillion package is allocated to domestic relief and response, the legislation provides nearly $11 billion in supplemental international affairs spending.
Vereinte Nationen warnen vor Hungersnot im Jemen
Anhaltende Kämpfe zwischen schiitischen Huthi-Rebellen und Regierungskräften, verschlechtern die Lage für Vertriebene im Jemen dramatisch. Die UN warnen vor einer Hungersnot. Neben mangelnder medizinischer Grundversorgung droht im Jemen auch Hungersnot. Quelle: dpa Im Bürgerkriegsland Jemen droht nach Angaben der Vereinten Nationen einen Hungersnot. Die Lage verschlechtere sich dramatisch, so UN-Jemenbeauftragte Martin Griffiths.
Tackling the Covid-19 hunger crisis
London—Today, 270 million people—equivalent to the combined population of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy—are on the brink of starvation. This number has doubled over the last 12 months. And it is the world’s children who are suffering most. An estimated 11 million children under the age of five face extreme hunger or starvation in 11 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.
Tackling the Covid hunger crisis
Today, 270 million people—equivalent to the combined population of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy—are on the brink of starvation. This number has doubled over the last 12 months. And it is the world's children who are suffering most. An estimated 11 million children under the age of five face extreme hunger or starvation in 11 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.
Opinion | Tackling the Covid-19 hunger crisis
Today, 270 million people—equivalent to the combined population of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy—are on the brink of starvation. This number has doubled over the last 12 months. And it is the world’s children who are suffering most. An estimated 11 million children under the age of five face extreme hunger or starvation in 11 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.
Tackling the COVID-19 hunger crisis
coronavirus|15 February, 2021 The choice facing world leaders is simple: act now to tackle the hunger crisis, or pay a much higher price later A pregnant woman, who fled from attacks of armed militants in Sahel region, carries a jerrycan of water at a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kaya, Burkina Faso November 23, 2020.
Tackling the COVID-19 hunger crisis
A child in the queue holds a pot aloft in Harare, Zimbabwe, December 31, 2020. /Getty A child in the queue holds a pot aloft in Harare, Zimbabwe, December 31, 2020. /Getty Editor's note: Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. Mark Lowcock is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Prevent the next food crisis now
NEW YORK / WASHINGTON, DC — The toxic cocktail of climate change, conflict, and COVID-19 is making itself felt most intensely in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries. As a result, a record 235 million people worldwide will need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2021 — an increase of 40 percent from last year. It can be hard to wrap one’s head around such numbers. But behind the statistics are individual human lives.
Prevent the next food crisis now
The toxic cocktail of climate change, conflict, and Covid-19 is making itself felt most intensely in the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries. As a result, a record 235 million people worldwide will need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2021—an increase of 40 percent from last year. It can be hard to wrap one's head around such numbers. But behind the statistics are individual human lives.
Prevent the Next Food Crisis Now
Home » Opinion » Prevent the Next Food Crisis Now January 31,2021 | Mark Lowcock The toxic cocktail of climate change, conflict, and COVID-19 is making itself felt most intensely in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries. As a result, a record 235 million people worldwide will need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2021 – an increase of 40% from last year. It can be hard to wrap one’s head around such numbers. But behind the statistics are individual human lives.
Prevent the Next Food Crisis Now | by Mark Lowcock & Axel van Trotsenburg - Project Syndicate
The number of chronically hungry people increased by an estimated 130 million last year, to more than 800 million – about eight times the number of COVID-19 cases to date. The international community needs to adopt an anticipatory approach to the growing hunger pandemic, by acting before food emergencies turn into full-blown famines.
Ten Generations - Troubador Book Publishing
A Family Story from Rags to Riches by Mark Lowcock Piecing together the story of more than one hundred of his ancestors across the British Isles and beyond from the 1650s to the 1950s, Mark Lowcock presents an extraordinary piece of social and family history in his new book Ten Generations: A Family Story from Rags to Riches. They were ordinary people: barmen, carpenters, coal miners, dockers, domestic servants, dressmakers, glass blowers, labourers, sailors, shop assistants and textile workers.
Tigray conflict in Ethiopia: The UN and other aid agencies must have safe passage to help civilians - The Washington Post
Mark Lowcock is the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs. I was first in northern Ethiopia in the mid-’80s in the wake of the horrific famine that took the lives of a million people. In the 35 years since then, Ethiopia’s story has been one of remarkable progress. Children in school and jobs created. Roads, railways, factories and power stations built. Addis Ababa became one of the leading African cities; Ethiopia a bulwark of relative stability in the region.
The COVID-19 fallout: Challenges for the international humanitarian system
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #BrookingsUN The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the international humanitarian system to confront a broad set of challenges that will have long-lasting social and economic implications.
West Africa: Greater Sahel - USG Lowcock Remarks on How to Avert a Looming Tragedy
New York — Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock today spoke virtually at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Paris, on the situation in the greater Sahel region.
Africa: Opinion - Attacks Against Humanitarian Workers Must Stop
Unprecedented rates of attacks against aid workers, restrictions linked to COVID-19, and counter-terrorism laws are making delivering aid harder than ever. In May, seven young health workers were abducted from a hospital in Somalia and brutally killed. In June, the executions of five of our colleagues in north-eastern Nigeria were posted online for the world to watch. These terror tactics are designed to drive panic through the global humanitarian community.
Attacks against humanitarian workers must stop
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Unprecedented rates of attacks against aid workers, restrictions linked to COVID-19, and counter-terrorism laws are making delivering aid harder than ever. Mark Lowcock is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. Jan Egeland is the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council and a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
What America needs to do if we are to beat this pandemic Original
Sir Mark Lowcock is the United Nations undersecretary-general and emergency relief coordinator. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. (CNN)The world handles global crises best when there is strong US leadership. Almost 20 years ago, President George W. Bush's emergency plan for HIV/AIDS did more than anything to fight the disease and save many millions of lives.
Global response to COVID-19 must address rights of women
May 8, 2020 By Dr Natalia Kanem and Mark Lowcock In a week in which people in some parts of the world have been given cause for optimism that they have passed the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how the extraordinary actions of individuals can change the trajectory for a whole nation.
Covid-19 knows no borders; response should not, either
To stop the covid-19 pandemic, nations must look beyond their own borders. The coronavirus is now reaching places where people live in war zones, cannot easily get their hands on soap and clean water, and have no hope of a hospital bed if they fall critically ill. If countries with strong healthcare systems are buckling under the pressure of coronavirus outbreaks, imagine what will happen in countries beset by deep humanitarian crises caused by war, natural disasters and climate change.
To stop the COVID-19 pandemic countries need to look beyond their own borders
Employees work in Cormart factory as the company steps up production of hand sanitizers to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja The virus is now reaching places where people live in warzones, cannot easily get their hands on clean water and soap, and have no hope of a hospital bed if they fall critically ill.
Opinion | The coronavirus threatens all of humanity. All of humanity must fight back.
Mark Lowcock is the United Nations’ under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is director-general of the World Health Organization. To stop the covid-19 pandemic, nations must look beyond their own borders. The coronavirus is now reaching places where people live in war zones, cannot easily get their hands on soap and clean water, and have no hope of a hospital bed if they fall critically ill.
The female face of Southern Africa’s climate crisis
Home Africa Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change. We must be relentless in our collective fight against inequality and patriarchy. Mark Lowcock Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Schoolgirls in Harare, Zimbabwe, protest over child marriages. (Aaron Ufumeli/TNH) NEW YORK The global climate crisis is not gender neutral.
It’s not enough to respond to crises. We need to take action before they happen
The humanitarian system needs to adopt an anticipatory approach. This will involve greater use of insurance, Catastrophe Bonds, anticipatory actions, as well as addressing underlying problems. We must track results in order to scale-up successful experiments, and abandon others. We face a world where record numbers of people need humanitarian assistance, climate change is hitting the poorest hardest, and combatants routinely flout humanitarian principles. The outlook is bleak.
Somalia: Opinion - Somalia's Food Crises Can Be Tackled By Data-Driven Early Action and Investment
opinion By Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Mark Lowcock and Mahmoud Mohieldin | United Nations Our recent joint mission to Somalia took place after news broke that the country's main harvest was to be the worst since the 2011-2012 famine. But the data then also showed that a million fewer Somalis were a step away from starvation than had been projected three months earlier. So, what happened? Early warning systems worked and led to early action.
The Hope I Have for Yemen
Mark Lowcock is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. He last visited Yemen in late November 2018. This past November, I met an extraordinary little boy named Fawaz in a hospital in Aden, Yemen. At 18 months old, Fawaz weighed a little more than 4 kg (9 lbs). Severely malnourished, Fawaz had been in the hospital for more than a month, barely able to hold the therapeutic milk he was being given. Yet, he persevered, determined to live.
We're running out of time and money to help the children of Yemen
Mark Lowcock is the United Nations undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. He last visited Yemen in late November. The opinions in this article belong to the author. (CNN)I met an extraordinary little boy named Fawaz in November in a hospital in Aden, Yemen. At 18 months old, Fawaz weighed a little more than 4 kg (9 lbs). Severely malnourished, Fawaz had been in the hospital for more than a month, barely able to hold the therapeutic milk he was being given.
3 ways to fix the way we fund humanitarian relief
Each year, humanitarian aid organizations save and protect tens of millions of people caught up in crises across the world. Their interventions are more timely, relevant and effective than ever. But humanitarian action is not always as fast as it should be, and needs are unevenly met. Even as record sums are raised, growing levels of vulnerability worldwide have resulted in a stubborn and harmful gap between need and response.
Líder humanitario de las Naciones Unidas: No es demasiado tarde para salvar a Yemen del apocalipsis
Nota del editor: Mark Lowcock es el subsecretario general de asuntos humanitarios y coordinador de ayuda de emergencia de las Naciones Unidas. Viajó a Yemen del 28 de noviembre al 1 de diciembre. Síguelo en Twitter. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario son exclusivas de él. Ver más artículos de opinión en la CNN. (CNN) - La semana pasada, en Yemen, incluso un veterano de 30 años de crisis humanitarias como yo no podía evitar sorprenderse. Millones de vidas están en riesgo.
UN humanitarian chief: It's not too late to save Yemen from apocalypse
Traveling last week in Yemen, even a 30-year veteran of humanitarian crises like me could not fail to be shocked. Millions of people's lives are at risk. But it's not too late to save Yemen. Missing the opportunity to do so would be a huge moral failure. Four years ago, Yemen was a fragile country where millions of people struggled to make ends meet. Many were reliant on external help.
UN humanitarian chief: It's not too late to save Yemen from apocalypse
Four years ago, Yemen was a fragile country where millions of people struggled to make ends meet. Many were reliant on external help. But there was a functioning economy, infrastructure stretched across the country and people received basic services from their government. All of this has been destroyed and brought Yemen to the brink. The war has decimated the economy. National income is half of what it was at the start of the war.
The most effective way to respond to the massive humanitarian nee
Comment: Tens of millions of people across the globe need assistance to survive, notes United Nations humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock Today, I am launching the authoritative Global Humanitarian Overview 2019 (GHO), which outlines what the humanitarian and donor communities must do to assist and protect the world's most vulnerable crisis-affected people. In 2019, nearly 132 million people in 42 countries will require humanitarian assistance and protection.
Africa: The Most Effective Way to Respond to the Massive Humanitarian Need Across the Globe
By Mark Lowcock | United Nations Today, I am launching the authoritative Global Humanitarian Overview 2019 (GHO), which outlines what the humanitarian and donor communities must do to assist and protect the world's most vulnerable crisis-affected people. In 2019, nearly 132 million people in 42 countries will require humanitarian assistance and protection. The United Nations and partner organizations aim to assist nearly 94 million of the most vulnerable among these people.
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