{"id":69696,"date":"2026-02-10T10:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/?p=69696"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:07:28","slug":"a-year-of-harms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2026\/02\/10\/a-year-of-harms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of Harms: First Report Shares the Damaging Impact of US Aid Cuts on Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published January 20, 2026, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/legacy-grantees\/wrc\/\">Women\u2019s Refugee Commission (WRC)<\/a>\u2019s report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrefugeecommission.org\/research-resources\/year-of-harms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Year of Harms: The Impact of US Foreign Aid Cuts on Women and Girls in Humanitarian Crises<\/a>\u201d is the first of its kind to shine a light on the disproportionate impact women faced a year after the US abruptly cut billions of dollars of aid, sending crisis-affected areas into disarray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US aid cuts ushered in a new landscape of harms for women and girls in humanitarian crises,\u201d said Sarah Costa, Executive Director of WRC. \u201cThese cuts didn\u2019t simply reduce funding; they also shattered lives and livelihoods and dismantled the foundations of stability in crisis-affected communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report draws on cases of humanitarian crises in 32 countries to analyze how the funding cuts weakened infrastructure for women&#8217;s leadership, health, and protection.<\/p>\n<p>WRC found impacts they describe as \u201csystemic shock,\u201d explaining that rather than see these effects as short-term, the impact instead signifies the dismantling of &#8220;interconnected systems of care and protection for women and girls that had been built over decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report details how funding cuts shook the landscape through different sectors. Nearly half of women-led and women\u2019s rights organizations were forced or expected to shut down. Hundreds of clinics have closed, leading to deaths and leaving millions of women without care. Three million women and girls in humanitarian settings lost access to services for rape and sexual assault response.<\/p>\n<p>These findings are only a snapshot of the many shared by WRC in their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrefugeecommission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YearofHarms_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen health, safety, and education services disappear overnight, systems collapse and lives are destroyed, leaving individuals and families struggling to rebuild,\u201d Costa said.<\/p>\n<p>The report covers a mere year after the funding cuts, and the damage will only continue to compound. WRC highlights the need to invest in documenting the long-term impacts. They call for the rebuilding of humanitarian response with local leadership for gender equality at its core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published January 20, 2026, the Women\u2019s Refugee Commission (WRC)\u2019s report \u201cA Year of Harms: The Impact of US<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[464,122,469],"class_list":["post-69696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-ffcr","tag-global","tag-wrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69706,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69696\/revisions\/69706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}