日内瓦——联合国难民署（UNHCR）因资金严重不足，被迫在全球人道主义行动中进行痛苦的削减，其负责人警告称，重组能够弥补的捐助支持下降有其限度。
GENEVA – Deep funding shortfalls are forcing the UN refugee agency (UNCHR) to make painful cuts across its humanitarian operations worldwide, and there are limits to how much restructuring can offset shrinking donor support, its chief warned on Oct 12.
UNHCR仅筹集到30亿美元（约38亿新元），即其2026年所需85亿美元资金的35%。难民署最高专员巴赫姆·萨利赫在日内瓦举行的执行委员会会议上如是说。
UNHCR has secured only US$3 billion (S$3.8 billion), or 35%, of the US$8.5 billion in funding it requires for 2026, High Commissioner Barham Salih told the agency’s executive committee at a meeting in Geneva.
这一缺口紧随多国削减援助之后，包括在美国总统特朗普任期内的美国，此时正值全球流离失所人数创纪录。
The shortfall follows aid cuts by countries, including the United States under President Donald Trump at a time of record global displacement.
萨利赫表示，尽管2026年的资金前景仍不确定，但预计约26.8亿美元的数字有望在12月UNHCR捐助者承诺会议后得到改善。
Funding for 2026 remains uncertain although the expected figure of around US$2.68 billion could improve after a UNHCR donor pledging conference in December, Salih said.
由于预算紧张，UNHCR已启动其历史上规模最大的重组之一。萨利赫表示，自2024年以来，其员工人数已从2万人减少至刚刚低于1.2万人。
UNHCR has launched one of its largest restructurings in its history because of the budget squeeze, with Salih saying its workforce has been reduced since 2024 from 20,000 employees to just under 12,000.
他说：“保护有底线。低于这一线，系统不仅仅是变小那么简单。我们能够提供的保护开始失效。”
“Protection has a floor. Below it, the system does not simply become smaller. The protection we can provide begins to fail,” he said.
萨利赫警告称，重组无法无限期地弥补资金不足，而且资金危机已经对难民和人道主义伙伴产生了具体后果。
Salih cautioned that restructuring could not compensate indefinitely for lower funding, and that the funding crisis is already having tangible consequences for refugees and humanitarian partners.
他说：“既要做更多事情却用更少资源，和被要求完成不可能的任务，之间是有区别的。”
“There is a difference between doing more with less and being asked to do the impossible,” he said.
萨利赫表示，UNHCR正通过裁减日内瓦总部及全球区域办事处的工作岗位，以保护前线行动，目前有88%的员工仍驻扎在总部以外。
UNHCR is seeking to preserve frontline operations by cutting jobs at its Geneva headquarters and worldwide regional offices, with 88% of staff remaining outside headquarters, Salih said.
他还说，从事保护工作的员工——如登记难民、提供法律援助，以及帮助难民寻找更长期解决方案，例如安全返回家园——约有95%的人员仍留在实地岗位。他举了几个正面临威胁的项目作为例子。
About 95% of the staff doing protection work, such asing refugees and providing legal assistance, and helping refugees find longer-term solutions, such as returning home safely, have been retained in field locations, he said. He cited several examples of programmes under threat.
在乍得，他说，资金不足可能导致超过5万名逃离邻国苏丹的冲突相关性暴力幸存者的专业医疗护理和法律援助中断。
In Chad, he said, insufficient funding risks disrupting specialised medical care and legal assistance for more than 50,000 survivors of conflict-related sexual violence who fled neighbouring Sudan.
在埃塞俄比亚，他说，来自南苏丹和厄立特里亚的数万名难民的登记工作已被暂停。哥伦比亚代表拉美国家提出担忧，称其地区受到的影响不成比例。
In Ethiopia, refugee registration has been suspended for tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan and Eritrea, he said. Colombia has raised concerns on behalf of Latin American countries that their region is being disproportionately impacted.
萨利赫表示，美洲地区（包括美国、加拿大、拉丁美洲和加勒比地区）2027年的预算相比2026年将减少32%，约合4.85亿美元——这是所有地区中预算削减幅度最大的——而美洲地区被迫流离失所和无国籍人数预计将在2027年增加4%，达到约2450万人。
The Americas, which include the US, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, face a budget reduction of 32% in 2027 compared to 2026, or about US$485 million – the largest budget reduction of any region – while the number of forcibly displaced and stateless people in the Americas is projected to increase by 4% to about 24.5 million people in 2027, Salih said.