Press Release: The European Commission provides additional support for newly displaced people in Pakistan

The European Commission is providing additional funding of €10 million to finance urgently needed humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of people recently displaced by violence and armed conflict in the North-West of Pakistan. The aid is expected to reach over 200 000 internally displaced people (IDPs) with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable, including women, children, the elderly, and the disabled.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background Information: Press Release: Pakistan: Increased EU funding for double humanitarian crisis http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-pakistan-increased-eu-funding-for-double-humanitarian-crisis/

ESO: Background Information: Where the European Commission's humanitarian aid will go in 2013 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-where-the-european-commissions-humanitarian-aid-will-go-in-2013/

---