World Humanitarian Summit

World leaders must go beyond UN chief's report and create an accountability mechanism so World Humanitarian Summit commitments turn into action to end suffering and global goals can be met for all.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has released his much anticipated report for the World Humanitarian Summit. Action Against Hunger welcomes the report and many of the ideas within it that place the people we seek to support at the very center of humanitarian action.  

As an international humanitarian and development organisation working in over 40 countries, Action Against Hunger is all too familiar with the multitude of challenges facing the humanitarian system: the lack of political will to resolve humanitarian crises that last for decades and the inability to prevent new ones; the lack of protection for the people we support and our staff; the lack of appropriate funding to enable us to partner with local communities for the long term. The Secretary General of the UN recognised the world’s collective failures to effectively respond to the growing number of crises when he proposed the World Humanitarian Summit three years ago.   

A world free from suffering

Ban Ki-moon's report outlines his vision for a world free of human suffering, as well as a corresponding Agenda for Humanity. The report’s title, “One Humanity: Shared Responsibility”, encapsulates the essence of the vision — the world must collectively act to alleviate human suffering, ensure respect for humanitarian principles, and work with communities to ensure that the most vulnerable people receive the assistance they need. The ideas presented in the report will be taken into the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on May 23-24, where world leaders, civil society and other stakeholders will make commitments to implement the various recommendations presented in the report.