U.N. chief warns U.S. funding cut may have devastating effects: HumSub.TV
U.N. chief warns U.S. funding cut may have devastating effects: HumSub.TV: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that a decision by the United States to withdraw all funding to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) could have “devastating effects” on vulnerable women and girls around the world, a spokesman said.
The State Department said it was dropping the funding because the U.N. Population Fund “supports, or participates in the management of, a programme of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday that Guterres “believes that the decision is based on an inaccurate perception of the nature and importance of the work done by UNFPA.”
The cut marks U.S. President Donald Trump’s first move to curtail funding for the United Nations and its agencies.
U.N. agencies such as the UNFPA are funded by governments voluntarily. The United States was the fourth largest voluntary donor to UNFPA in 2015, giving $75 million in core budget and earmarked contributions.
The State Department said the funding was cut because UNFPA works with the Chinese government, which “employs measures such as coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization to carry out its population-control policies.”
“While there is no evidence that UNFPA directly engages in coercive abortions or involuntary sterilisations in China, the agency continues to partner with the (government) on family planning, and thus can be found to support, or participate in the management of China’s coercive policies,” it said.
The U.N. Population Fund is focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries.
“The Secretary-General deeply regrets the decision by the United States to cut financial support for the U.N. Population Fund, which could have devastating effects on the health of vulnerable women and girls and their families around the world,” Dujarric told reporters.
He said Guterres appealed to donors to increase their support. Britain, the top donor to UNFPA, continues to support the agency, British U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said.
Chinese U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi told reporters he hoped “that the U.N. agencies will receive the necessary resources to carry out their duties on behalf of the international community and for the benefit of the international community.”
U.N. chief warns U.S. funding cut may have devastating effects: HumSub.TV. U.N. chief warns U.S. funding cut may have devastating effects: HumSub.TV
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Following the successful launch of HumSub TV’s head office in Blue Area, Islamabad; the bureau office has been set up in Lahore.
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HumSub TV is resolute about the promotion of a pluralistic, inclusive and egalitarian society in Pakistan where all citizens are allowed to contribute to promote interfaith harmony, peace and collective wisdom in the social, political and economic development of Pakistan and to encourage critical and lateral thinking in the society. HumSub TV strives to make a positive contribution to this end.
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HumSub TV, Pakistan’s first EDUTAINMENT Channel, has been set up for not only those audience residing in Pakistan or overseas but the international community on the whole. The vision of the channel is to project positive image building of Pakistan and inculcate nationalism as per the vision of the founder of the nation.
HumSub TV strives to make a positive contribution to this end by promoting pluralism, inclusiveness and egality in Pakistan and give voice to the suppressed. It endeavors to act as a positive catalyst for social change and Pakistani nationalism. It envisions providing a platform for airing critical and lateral thinking and collective wisdom by inviting positive minded intellectuals and opinion forming individuals for the promotion of interfaith harmony and peace in the social, political and economic development of Pakistan.
Whereas the channel airs upbeat edutainment programmes, it, nonetheless, has the primary objective of countering negative anti-Pakistan regional and international propaganda as well as advancing fundamental rights as encapsulated in the Constitution of Pakistan.
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