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David Beasley

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2020-04-29

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2021-03-11

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1. “But now the World Food Programme (WFP) analysis shows that, due to the coronavirus, an additional 130 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020. That is a total of 265 million people. On any given day now, WFP offers a lifeline to nearly 100 million people, up from about 80 million just a few years ago. That includes about 30 million people whose lives literally depend on us. If we cannot reach those people with the life-saving assistance they need, our analysis shows that 300,000 people could starve to death every single day over a three-month period. That does not include the increase in starvation due to COVID-19.”

   2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/340 (2020) · source

2. “So today, with COVID-19, I want to stress that we are not only facing a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe. Millions of civilians living in conflict-scarred nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation, with the spectre of famine a very real and dangerous possibility. This sounds truly shocking, but let me provide the numbers: 821 million people go to bed hungry every night all over the world, chronically hungry, and as the new Global Report on Food Crisis published today shows, there are a further 135 million people facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. That means 135 million people on Earth are marching towards the brink of starvation.”

   2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/340 (2020) · source

3. “In my conversations with world leaders over the past many months, before the coronavirus even became an issue, I was saying that 2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War for a number of reasons, such as the wars in Syria and Yemen; the deepening crises in places like South Sudan and, as Jan Egeland will no doubt set out, Burkina Faso and the central Sahel region; the desert locust swarms in Africa, as Director-General Qu highlighted in his remarks; more frequent natural disasters and changing weather patterns; the economic crisis in Lebanon, which is affecting millions of Syrian refugees; and the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and the list goes on. We are already facing a perfect storm.”

   2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/340 (2020) · source

4. “Forgive me for speaking bluntly, but I would like to lay out for the Council very clearly what the world is facing at this very moment. At the same time as we are dealing with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic.”

   2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/340 (2020) · source