New Delhi, July 12 -- NEW YORK - The safe houses operating in eastern Congo's conflict zones had been absorbing women for years before the funding stopped arriving. Organizations that had built waiting lists last year built them again in 2025, but shorter. The ones that closed did not announce it; they stopped answering. A survey released Friday by UN Women tracked what happened across 52 countries when the world's largest bilateral aid donor and three of its European partners began simultaneously withdrawing from the humanitarian architecture they had spent decades building.

organizations that permanently shuttered before the survey opened were not included in the count.

Sofia Calltorp, UN Women's chief of humanitarian action, framed t...