The focus of the 2021 edition of the global awareness day will focus on climate change and its respective challenges.
In its message of the day, the directorate for development aid and humanitarian initiatives cites famines in Ethiopia, political turmoil in Myanmar, or the conflicts in the Sahel zone as some of the most pressing issues at the moment.
The UN office in charge of humanitarian aid estimates that currently more than 239 million people across 56 nationals are in urgent need of support.
