By Press Association 2021
A UK aid label attached to a box containing kitchen sets at a UK aid Disaster Response Centre
Cuts to the Government’s foreign aid budget represent a “tragic blow” for many of the world’s most at-risk communities, 200 UK charities have said.
Economic damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has led the Government to shelve its manifesto commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday revealing the amount had been reduced to 0.5%.
“Today’s announcement is a tragic blow for many of the world’s most marginalised people the UK once supported, and for the UK’s reputation as a trusted development partner,” the leaders of 200 charities including Save the Children, Oxfam, ONE, Christian Aid and Care International wrote in a statement.
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Britain will reverse its major cut to overseas aid spending as soon as the economy recovers from the pandemic, the UK s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab vowed on Thursday.
Following a major backlash against Britain’s reduction of more than £4 billion ($5.57bn) in international aid, Mr Raab made the unequivocal commitment to return it to 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product “when the fiscal situation allows”.
Despite his promise, he faced a torrent of questions over the impact of the reduction to 0.5 per cent of GDP, including the implications to British national security in the Sahel region where ISIS is growing in strength.
British lawmakers have approved a parliamentary motion declaring that China’s policies against its Uyghur minority population in the far western Xinjiang region amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity
By Press Association 2021
A UK aid label attached to a box containing kitchen sets at a UK aid Disaster Response Centre
Cuts to the Government’s foreign aid budget represent a “tragic blow” for many of the world’s most at-risk communities, 200 UK charities have said.
Economic damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has led the Government to shelve its manifesto commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday revealing the amount had been reduced to 0.5%.
“Today’s announcement is a tragic blow for many of the world’s most marginalised people the UK once supported, and for the UK’s reputation as a trusted development partner,” the leaders of 200 charities including Save the Children, Oxfam, ONE, Christian Aid and Care International wrote in a statement.