{"id":19368,"date":"2024-03-26T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T09:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=19368"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T09:14:41","slug":"un-humanitarian-chief-martin-griffiths-to-step-down-due-to-health-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/03\/un-humanitarian-chief-martin-griffiths-to-step-down-due-to-health-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths to step down due to health reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, has announced he will step down due to ill health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Griffiths, who has headed the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and served as the emergency relief coordinator for three years, said he has informed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of his intention to step down in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo everyone at UNOCHA, it\u2019s been the privilege of my life. I am deeply in your debt. To all partners and supporters, thank you for championing the cause of people in crises,\u201d he said on Monday in a post on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 3 years on the job, I have informed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@antonioguterres<\/a> of my intention to step down in June.<\/p>\n<p>To everyone at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNOCHA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNOCHA<\/a>, it&#39;s been the privilege of my life. I am deeply in your debt.<\/p>\n<p>To all partners and supporters, thank you for championing the cause of people in crises.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martin Griffiths (@UNReliefChief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNReliefChief\/status\/1772305309341462621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Griffiths, has also played a key role in pressing for aid to the Gaza Strip and led earlier efforts for Yemen. In recent months, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs has pressed for Israel to allow humanitarian assistance into Gaza, which has been devastated by a more than five-month Israeli military assault and severe restrictions on aid supplies, according to Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Several NGOs and rights organizations have accused Israel of deliberately blocking aid to Gaza as warnings of famine in the besieged strip rise. Israel has denied the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Griffiths warned Israel not to ignore calls against a planned assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where 1.5 million Palestinians have taken shelter, warning that an Israeli operation \u201ccould lead to a slaughter\u201d.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, has announced he will step down due to ill health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-headline"],"views":68,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19370,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions\/19370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}