Sentences with phrase «huge humanitarian crisis»

The civil war in Syria and unrest in Iraq and other parts of the world has spawned a huge humanitarian crisis.

Earlier, Governor Ortom had lamented that the incursions of herdsmen into the state, apart from leading to the deaths of many, had created a huge humanitarian crisis in the state.

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But it also pushed the conflict towards the country's peripheries and across its borders, contributing to huge refugee flows and a humanitarian crisis that went largely unnoticed in many of Bogota's comfortable government offices.

Food and water shortages or huge floods could push vulnerable regions over the edge into crises that could «demand an American humanitarian relief or military response», it... Read more

Lessons from the Ottawa Treaty showed that the international community should not wait until there is a humanitarian crisis with huge stockpiles and thousands of casualties and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons puts that lesson in to practice.