UNSMIL launches humanitarian support to Libya.
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Tripoli, 24.11.2015(Lana) UNSMIL launched "humanitarian response to
Libya for 2015-2016" to respond to the needs of 2.4 million people in
need for habits risen assistance.
Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and
Coordinator of Humanitarian Assistance to Libya. Ali Al-Zatari
underlined the need to immediately stop fighting and reach a
political accord to run the humanitarian assistance.
Al-Zatari and members of the team concerned with humanitarian affairs
in Libya details of the response plan to humanitarian affairs that
targets 2.44 million people who are in need for protection and one
form if humanitarian assistance or another. They include 435,000
internally displaced people.
He highlighted the fact that UNSMIL faces the difficulty of reach
to 60% of the people in need in hospitals where fighting is raging,
let alone not being able to provide food to 1.2 million people and
closure of government schools. He said the plan requires financing
with about 165,6 million dollars.
He also shed light into the challenges facing the response in health,
food and education fields especially difficulties facing women and
girls.
Charge d'affairs of Libya's permanent Mission to the UN office in
Geneva, Salwa Al Daghili voiced Libya's support to the plan and
appealed to the international community to offer support in some
fields.
She also referred to the negative implications of lack of security to
children and weak health services.
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