{"id":47996,"date":"2022-08-30T19:58:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/un-pakistan-appeal-help-flooding-victims"},"modified":"2022-08-30T19:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:58:29","slug":"un-and-pakistan-appeal-for-160m-to-help-flooding-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47996","title":{"rendered":"UN and Pakistan appeal for $160m to help flooding victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call for emergency funding as nearly half a million people displaced and estimated $10bn damage to economy<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations and Pakistan are to appeal for $160m (\u00a3135m) in emergency funding for the nearly half a million people displaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/pakistan-floods-plea-for-help-amid-fears-monsoon-could-put-a-third-of-country-underwater\">record-breaking floods<\/a> that have killed more than 1,150 people since mid-June.<\/p>\n<p>Large areas remain underwater and more than 33 million people, or one in seven Pakistanis, have been affected by the floods. Rescuers have been evacuating stranded people to safer ground.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/un-pakistan-appeal-help-flooding-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for emergency funding as nearly half a million people displaced and estimated $10bn damage to economyThe United Nations and Pakistan are to appeal for $160m (\u00a3135m) in emergency funding for the nearly half a million people displaced by record-brea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,2331,65,455,313,59,60,79,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47997,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47996\/revisions\/47997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}