August 18, 2016, the heart-rending images of a child who has lost a child through our screens and in newspapers. He was of the internationa...
August 18, 2016, the heart-rending images of a child who has lost a child through our screens and in newspapers. He was of the international community is not able to the child, identified as Omran Daqneesh, 5, treated by doctors after an air raid in the north of Aleppo destroyed home and his brother's life was leaving his parents' fate unknown. His image has given us a unique view of the suffering of millions of children in fragile environments have to go day by day worldwide.
The numbers are clear - more than 130 million people are now in need of humanitarian aid. Sixty million people have been driven from their homes and in 37 countries were directly affected by conflicts or natural disasters. The people in these environments live facing displacement, hunger and violence, including violence based on sex and sexual (VSG), injury, trauma, and lack of access to health services based. The most vulnerable population groups in these areas are women and children.
There are an estimated 26 million women and girls of childbearing age live in emergency situations that need to all health services. show OECD data shows that the risk of an estimated lifetime of maternal mortality in fragile states is 1 in 54, compared with 1 in 4,000 in developed countries. occur more than 60% of maternal deaths, 53% of children under five deaths and 45% of neonatal deaths, in fragile situations. Behind these statistics are countless families that have been broken, women who have lost everything, they are expensive, and the children will never know the joy of childhood. There are women, young people and children who have as much right to survive, to grow and to change the way we do it. Since our children are not different from Omran or Alan Kurdi, a Syrian 3 year old boy, who died a little more than a year on the shore of a beach in Turkey, fleeing the Syrian conflict.
It was encouraging to see how the international community mobilized to answer this question during the past year. launched the new Global Strategy on Women, Children and Youth Health in September 2015 to life, identifying situations of fragility as one of its nine priorities, and calls upon all humanitarian work and development workers better together and increase their efforts to promote the health and resilience of women, children and Teenagers living in volatile conditions improve. The general secretary of the United Nations, for the first time invited 9,000 participants from 173 Member States, including government, the private sector, NGOs and CSOs in the World Humanitarian Summit 23-24 Istanbul May 2016 to discuss the pressing challenges that today in much suffering lead. Building on this momentum, a summit of heads of state are expected in large movements of refugees and migrants, on September 19 to a roadmap to a better and more coordinated international response to the crisis that we face today, to arrive. This meeting proposes to meet to take the specific problems of women and children in emergency situations, including the fight against sexual and gender-based violence, by facilitating access to sexual and reproductive health and the possibilities to develop early childhood.
If we the lives of women and children to want to progress and change is, now is the time to do it. First, we have to achieve more resources and transparent for humanitarian aid need local actors, as they are the first responders in times of crisis. Currently, only 0.2% of humanitarian aid goes directly to the local NGOs and CSOs of approximately $ 24.5 million (£ 17 billion) budget. Second, there should be more flexibility in the way donors and implementers working to reduce the gap between humanitarian and development continues to be in many common. This is particularly important, given the chronic nature of most emergencies we face today. Thirdly, innovative and appropriate solutions to the challenges to be promoted in fragile environments. In this context it is also important to support a better collection and analysis of data on what works and what does not learn to share, and the knowledge in a similar configuration on the basis of evidence with stakeholders.
We will continue to let our women and children, unless we stand up for them to be at the center of humanitarian action. The commitments and the will of governments and other stakeholders to resolve this problem, certainly a step in the right direction, but it is not an end in itself. Given the size of the problem and the responsibility that rests on our shoulders, make sure that the current situation of conflict and emergency situations translated into concrete action; and above all everyone must be willing to fulfill the obligations made to the. We must do more for humanity; We must do better for our women and children. For all are one.
This post is part of a produced by the Huffington Post series on the occasion of two critical UN conference to highlight the crisis of refugees and migrants: UN - Summit on Refugees and Migrants (September 19 Conference UN) and the leaders of the summit on refugees (20 organized September from US Pres. Barack Obama at the UN). To see all the messages in the series, please visit here. To follow the conversation on Twitter, see # UN4RefugeesMigrants.
