{"id":14326,"date":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/04\/29\/this-ramadan-unhcr-calls-for-solidarity-with-those-hit-hardest-by-the-global-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","slug":"this-ramadan-unhcr-calls-for-solidarity-with-those-hit-hardest-by-the-global-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/04\/29\/this-ramadan-unhcr-calls-for-solidarity-with-those-hit-hardest-by-the-global-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"This Ramadan, UNHCR calls for solidarity with those hit hardest by the global pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 29 April 2021 &#8211;\u00a0As the Islamic world enters the holy month of&#13;<br \/>\nRamadan, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges greater support for millions of&#13;<br \/>\nrefugees and internally displaced people hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>People forced to flee their homes must be included on an equal footing in&#13;<br \/>\nglobal vaccination programmes and economic recovery plans. Greater efforts are&#13;<br \/>\nalso needed to address their educational needs, mental health and psychosocial&#13;<br \/>\nwelfare, child protection risks, and in preventing and responding to&#13;<br \/>\ngender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time of deep reflection and generosity, our solidarity with the&#13;<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s forcibly displaced is needed more than ever,&#8221; said Filippo Grandi, the&#13;<br \/>\nUN High Commissioner for Refugees. &#8220;In the spirit of solidarity during the Holy&#13;<br \/>\nMonth, I&#8217;m appealing for greater support for vulnerable people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Around 85 per cent of the world&#8217;s refugees are hosted in low- and middle-&#13;<br \/>\nincome countries that are facing financial challenges and often have fragile&#13;<br \/>\nhealth systems. As a result of the pandemic, refugees and the displaced have&#13;<br \/>\nlost livelihoods and been thrust into extreme poverty, with disastrous and&#13;<br \/>\nfar-reaching consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>UNHCR estimates that three in four refugees worldwide can only meet half or&#13;<br \/>\nless of their basic needs. Families have cut spending on food, are no longer&#13;<br \/>\nable to pay rent, have fallen deeper into debt, or have been forced to stop&#13;<br \/>\nchildren from attending lessons, even where schools have remained open. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan, UNHCR has launched the &#8220;Every&#13;<br \/>\nSecond Counts&#8221; global fundraising campaign. Donations received as Zakat,&#13;<br \/>\nSadaqah, or general giving can ease the burden for forcibly displaced families&#13;<br \/>\nthat are away from home and their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together we can help refugees and the internally displaced have a roof&#13;<br \/>\nover their heads, a warm meal for iftar, clean water, and hope for a better and&#13;<br \/>\nsafer future,&#8221; said Grandi. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Financial support is urgently needed for UNHCR to continue providing&#13;<br \/>\nlife-saving assistance and support to vulnerable families, orphans, single&#13;<br \/>\nmothers, and older people. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The campaign will also provide funds for UNHCR&#8217;s regular programming and&#13;<br \/>\nhelp meet the mounting needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Campaign video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xOd5kcObpqo\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/xOd5kcObpqo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-04-29\/75937\/this-ramadan-unhcr-calls-for-solidarity-with-those-hit-hardest-by-the-global-pandemic\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 29 April 2021 &#8211;\u00a0As the Islamic world enters the holy month of&#13; Ramadan, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges greater support for millions of&#13; refugees and internally displaced people hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. &#13; &#13; People forced to flee their homes must be included on an equal footing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}