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Red Cross aid to Venezuela to triple as Maduro stance softens
Source: The Guardian
Red Cross aid to Venezuela to triple as Maduro stance softens
International Committee of the Red Cross to increase budget to $24m after president approves humanitarian assistance
Peter Beaumont
Fri 12 Apr 2019 11.35 BST Last modified on Fri 12 Apr 2019 11.36 BST
The International Committee of the Red Cross is to triple aid to Venezuela, a day after the crisis-riven country’s leader approved the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
The organisation announced the increase in the face of mounting calls for the UN to recognise the scale of the crisis facing Venezuela, and amid continued moves by the Trump administration to persuade other countries to back its calls for the removal of President Nicolás Maduro.
With the health system in collapse, and food and electricity shortages now commonplace, the Maduro government has been accused of deliberately minimising the scale of the problems facing the country even as millions have fled over its borders.
A joint report last week by Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health urged the UN to take a lead in what it described as a “complex humanitarian emergency” that demanded a “full scale” international response.
The 71-page report documented rising maternal and infant deaths, the unchecked spread of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and diphtheria, and sharp increases in the transmission of malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
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International Committee of the Red Cross to increase budget to $24m after president approves humanitarian assistance
Peter Beaumont
Fri 12 Apr 2019 11.35 BST Last modified on Fri 12 Apr 2019 11.36 BST
The International Committee of the Red Cross is to triple aid to Venezuela, a day after the crisis-riven country’s leader approved the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
The organisation announced the increase in the face of mounting calls for the UN to recognise the scale of the crisis facing Venezuela, and amid continued moves by the Trump administration to persuade other countries to back its calls for the removal of President Nicolás Maduro.
With the health system in collapse, and food and electricity shortages now commonplace, the Maduro government has been accused of deliberately minimising the scale of the problems facing the country even as millions have fled over its borders.
A joint report last week by Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health urged the UN to take a lead in what it described as a “complex humanitarian emergency” that demanded a “full scale” international response.
The 71-page report documented rising maternal and infant deaths, the unchecked spread of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and diphtheria, and sharp increases in the transmission of malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/12/red-cross-aid-to-venezuela-to-triple-as-nicolas-maduro-stance-softens
