The UK has announced it will give Yemen about 87m in aid this year, down from 164m in 2020. In a highly unusual intervention, the head of the UNs office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs has said the decision means ministers have decided to balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen. The International Development Act does include circumstances where the 0.7% is temporarily not met, for example because of adverse economic circumstances. Pauline Latham said the government was balancing the books on the backs of the poor, saying the money was being taken from children and mothers, and families, whole families, are devastated by what they are having to face. Ouster clauses that prevent judicial review have rarely been accepted by the courts, the opinion states.
Pauline Latham was also questioned on whether or not the intervention was worth it.
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