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sentences that state something as happening or true
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2 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Asked to ‘do the impossible’: UN refugee chief warns aid cuts threaten vital lifelines
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Deep funding shortfalls are forcing the UN refugee agency (UNCHR) to make painful cuts across its humanitarian operations worldwide, and there are limits to how much restructuring can offset shrinking donor support, its chief said on Oct 12.
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UNHCR has secured only US$3 billion (S$3.8 billion), or 35% of the US$8.5 billion in funding it requires for 2026, High Commissioner Barham Salih told the agency’s executive committee at a meeting in Geneva.
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Salih → secure → Geneva
The shortfall follows aid cuts by countries, including the United States under President Donald Trump, at a time of record global displacement.
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shortfall → follow → displacement
Funding for 2026 remains uncertain although the expected figure of around US$2.68 billion could improve after a UNHCR donor pledging conference in December, Salih said.
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UNHCR has launched one of its largest restructurings in the agency’s history because of the budget squeeze, with Salih saying its workforce has been reduced since 2024 from 20,000 employees to just under 12,000.
“Protection has a floor.
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Protection → launch → floor
Below it, the system does not simply become smaller.
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system → become → it
The protection we can provide begins to fail,” he said.
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he → provide → ?
Salih cautioned that restructuring could not compensate indefinitely for lower funding, and that the funding crisis is already having tangible consequences for refugees and humanitarian partners.
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crisis → caution → refugees
“There is a difference between doing more with less and being asked to do the impossible,” he said.
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he → be → impossible
UNHCR is seeking to preserve frontline operations by cutting jobs at its Geneva headquarters and worldwide regional offices, with 88% of staff remaining outside headquarters, Salih said.
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Salih → seek → headquarters
About 95% of the staff doing protection work, such as registering refugees and providing legal assistance, and helping refugees find longer-term solutions, such as returning home safely, have been retained in field locations, he said.
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he → do → locations
He cited several examples of programmes under threat.
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In Chad, he said, insufficient funding risks disrupting specialised medical care and legal assistance for more than 50,000 survivors of conflict-related sexual violence who fled neighbouring Sudan.
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who → say → Sudan
In Ethiopia, refugee registration has been suspended for tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan and Eritrea, he said.
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he → suspend → Sudan
Colombia has raised concerns on behalf of Latin American countries that their region is being disproportionately impacted.
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The Americas, which include the US, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, face a budget reduction of 32% in 2027 compared to 2026, or about US$485 million – the largest budget reduction of any region – while the number of forcibly displaced and stateless people in the Americas is projected to increase by 4% to about 24.5 million people in 2027, Salih said.
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