A staff member said cuts to global humanitarian funding are leading to deaths and urged increased donor support, saying the needs of survivors and children are immediate and severe.

The staff member said, “Sitting with women who tell horrific stories, which, you know, too horrific for me to tell, here, and who are trying to find the courage to rebuild their lives. We're there providing that support to them, trying to help them rebuild, but they have been through hell. And they are desperate for this conflict to end. People here have been through decades of trauma. So we're having to make brutal choices, life and death choices.”

The comment came as the staff member described a recent report she called the Global Humanitarian Overview and said it “hyperprioritized” a set of lives that could be saved this year if funding were provided. She said, “these cuts are real right now, and people are dying because of the cuts. I released the latest version of our global humanitarian overview where we have hyperprioritized the hundred and 14000000 lives that we could save this year if we get the funding. And all we're asking for to do that is 1% of what the world spent on defense last year.”

She detailed groups she said were affected, including survivors of sexual violence, children who told aid workers they needed water, and communities asking for shelter and medicine. “For these women, the survivors of ****** violence, for the kids who told me they needed water, for the communities that told me they needed shelter, medicine, you know, these cuts are real right now,” she said.

The staff member urged mobilizing supporters and donors, saying, “We've got to enlist them. We've got to show them that we can deliver for them. And, you know, I've not given up on human kindness and human solidarity. I've not given up on the UN charter for a second, and this work is at the heart of it.”

The remarks described humanitarian need and a funding appeal but did not include any formal motions or votes. The staff member framed the appeal as urgent and tied it to an analytical report; the transcript’s numeric reference to lives prioritized in the report is unclear and therefore not restated as a precise figure in this article.

The remarks closed with an appeal to donors’ sense of solidarity and a plea for modest reallocation of resources to avert preventable deaths.