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AN ESTIMATED $40 billion (£28bn) is needed annually to help the rapidly growing number of people needing humanitarian aid as a result of conflicts and natural disasters, a UN-appointed panel said yesterday.
One possibility to help fill the $15bn (£10.5bn) funding gap is a small voluntary tax on tickets for football games and other sports, concerts and entertainment events, air travel, and petrol, the panel suggested.
Its report on humanitarian financing, launched by UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon at an event in Dubai, showed that the world is spending around $25bn (£17.5bn) today to provide life-saving assistance to 125 million people devastated by wars and natural disasters.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
