Sentences with phrase «to humanitarian crises»

Experts see water stress and population growth as two factors that will trigger conflict and humanitarian crises in the coming years.

Millions of Syrian refugees represent the worst humanitarian crisis of our time.

Syrian refugees are currently facing one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time.

Around the world, stronger storms and more intense droughts will create humanitarian crises and risk more conflict.

During humanitarian crises, international organisations often lead most of the emergency response.

This is most often framed as a serious humanitarian crisis — and it is — but it has also been an ecological disaster.

These conditions have contributed to the country's worsening humanitarian crisis, including massive food and medical shortages.

We respond to an average of 30 natural disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide each year, establish long - term recovery projects and bring disaster preparedness programs to vulnerable communities.

But the looming humanitarian crisis has widespread implications too.

All told, nearly one billion people worldwide lack access to such safe drinking water — a long - standing humanitarian crisis.

Global warming will drive increasingly severe humanitarian crises, forced migration, political instability and conflict.

With three major humanitarian crises on its hands — in Syria, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic — as well as three important disease outbreaks — Ebola, the H7N9 influenza virus, and MERS — WHO is «extremely stretched,» she said.

We also have to confront how the mismatch between climate change and market domination has created barriers within our very selves, making it harder to look at this most pressing of humanitarian crises with anything more than furtive, terrified glances.

World Vision is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis for children arriving in Uganda, having fled violence in neighbouring South Sudan.

However, aid can provide a lifeline for countries facing humanitarian crises or too impoverished or unstable to attract private funding.

It is now the center of our generation's greatest humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled the area and 200 - 300,000 remain trapped in the region seized by rebels.

In a remarkable new statement from the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, «encroaching environmental stress» is leading to mass displacement of peoples and causing «the greatest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.»

While overwhelmed, though, they also express an unequivocal gratitude: over the past six months, the world has finally chosen to embrace the plight of refugee families in what is being called the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.

Polish artist M - City transforms 18 - metre long bus into refugee pontoon to raise awareness about global humanitarian crisis.

As CT noted in a 2006 interview, Brownback developed a reputation for defending the poor and advocating for foreign aid to address humanitarian crises — including the Darfur genocide in Sudan, the AIDS outbreak in Africa, and human rights violations in North Korea.

The Trump administration sent a massive Navy ship to aid the growing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico — two days after Hillary Clinton pleaded with him to dispatch the vessel.

Donations urgently needed The massive humanitarian crisis in Pakistan requires a huge response by the international community.

We have a full - blown humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico right now.»

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

It comes as a response to warnings that more than 20 million people face starvation in what the UN has declared the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945.

But the Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, said there was a need for the Federal Government to think anew and act responsibly with a view to finding lasting solutions to environmental and humanitarian crises which threatened the continuity of the Niger Delta region.

This article will analyse how humanitarian crises exacerbate social exclusion, resulting in increased vulnerability of persons with disabilities.

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.

There are many charities, including the International Rescue Committee, which focus on helping victims of humanitarian crises like the ones recounted in this story.

Further afield, coral bleaching is a potential humanitarian crisis in countries that rely on reefs for food and basic livelihoods.

This exhibition is rooted in contemporary events that deal with a current humanitarian crisis of migration in the Middle East, but Peters» work captures the unspoken side of this narrative.

That could include content shared by animal rights groups to expose animal testing conditions or animal abuse, or content that raises awareness of humanitarian crises around the world, such as famine and the impact of war, according to Instagram.

«As Venezuela plunges deeper into humanitarian crisis, the broadcast and cable networks barely More...

Hurricane Maria has left 3.4 million Puerto Ricans facing shortages of food, health care and transit, an American humanitarian crisis fueled by the US territory's May 2017 bankruptcy.

The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting today to discuss the desperate humanitarian crisis in Aleppo.

It provides aid to countries suffering humanitarian crises, including the famine spreading across the nations of East Africa.

In addition to the armed conflict and resulting humanitarian crisis currently impacting the country, widespread natural resource pillaging (specifically mining, wildlife poaching and trafficking, and pastoralist pressures) involving armed groups has been widely reported.

Humanitarian crises often deepen the scenario of exclusion due to, among other issues, the destruction of physical structures, the disruption of public services, economic hardship and political, religious or ethnic disputes.

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crises in the North - East had, in an interim report, indicted Lawal in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North - East (PINE).

More than just humanitarian crises, resource scarcities and conflicts challenge American security interests in strategic regions...

Conflict and other humanitarian crises may exacerbate ongoing violence.

New Zealand can already grant people the right to stay on humanitarian grounds, theoretically including humanitarian crises worsened by climate change, and the Coalition says this new proposal must add something new to what New Zealand can offer.

In discussing homosexuality and Communion for the divorced and remarried, the synod seems not to have touched on what is «arguably the most pressing humanitarian crisis of our day: the epidemic failure to live marriage and family in a manner consistent with authentic human flourishing» (Catherine Pakaluk, Is the Pope's «Accent on Mercy» the Solution to the Culture Wars?

The deepening humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico reveals a disaster response that is categorically different from the actions taken in the wake of hurricanes that struck the continental U.S. recently.

The coastal enclave's terrorist Hamas rulers are anathema to Israel, and the Jewish state has recognized the rapidly approaching humanitarian crisis in the Strip.

I have tremendous feeling for the people involved in this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria.

UNICEF wants to use the cryptocurrency it gathers to help 13.5 million Syrians mired in «the most appalling humanitarian crisis of the past 20 years.»