Published December 3, 2021 at 08.21
Domestic. The UN claims that more money is needed to “meet the growing humanitarian needs of the world”, partly due to the “climate”. Now the new S-government contributes another 110 million tax kroner to the organization.
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The UN has launched a new humanitarian report stating that 274 million people will need humanitarian aid.
This is an increase of over 60 percent in just two years, “due to of climate change, conflicts, and the effects of the pandemic “, the government writes on its website.
On Thursday, the government decided to contribute an additional SEK 110 million in non-earmarked” core support “, distributed among some of the UN humanitarian organizations.
With Thursday's decision, the government will increase Swedish support in 2021 to the United Nations Disaster Relief Fund (CERF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).