At least 1 million women have lost access to aid after funding cuts, U.N. says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The world body, as part of a reform process known as UN80, has been considering the prospect of merging UN Women with UNFPA, the sexual and reproductive health agency.
46% : Conflict-related sexual violence had doubled last year, UN Women said.
44% : Conflict-related sexual violence has doubled as global development assistance plunged nearly a quarter, forcing U.N. agencies to cut jobs, scale back aid and weigh merging UN Women with the reproductive health agency UNFPA. GENEVA --
40% : "Every dollar withdrawn from women's organizations is a dollar withdrawn from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, displaced mothers, girls forced from school and communities struggling to survive," said Sofia Calltorp, UN Women's chief of humanitarian action.
40% : "UN Women has spoken to 855 women's organizations working in 52 countries, who have told us that these women and girls have been turned away due to funding cuts that are dismantling their organizations," Calltorp told reporters in Geneva.

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