Sentences with phrase «humanitarian crisis as»

Clearly, these are tough times for the people of Greece, as the country's stagnating economy is giving rise to a humanitarian crisis as well.

The risk of a hurricane occurring is higher in tropical, sub-tropical and coastal regions, but the risk of a humanitarian crisis as a consequence of the weather event is higher in economically less developed countries.

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.

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The U.K. government said that the meeting «will help to enhance our co-operation in tackling international challenges such as terrorism, extremism, the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Yemen and other regional issues such as Iraq and Syria.»

WASHINGTON, March 20 - President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised U.S. defense sales to Saudi Arabia as a boost to American jobs, even as lawmakers criticized Riyadh's role in the war in Yemen where a humanitarian crisis has unfolded.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick — referencing his faith in referring to the situation as «a humanitarian crisis» — has offered two possible locations as short - term shelters for 1,000 children.

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.

The intensity of Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on September 20, was part of why it was so devastating to the island and its weak infrastructure, leaving Puerto Ricans in a humanitarian crisis.

And the desperate pleas for help that continued Friday from Cruz, as well as other Puerto Ricans in more isolated parts of the country, suggest that far more is needed from the Trump administration's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis.

And for nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, as a humanitarian crisis was intensifying, the death toll was frozen at 16.

The outbreak has been described not only as a health crisis, but also as a humanitarian crisis with global dimensions.

The working group has been urging governments, companies and other stakeholders to increase the role Christian and other faith - based organisations have in tackling humanitarian crises such as lack of food, water or sanitation, as well as civil wars, religious persecution or natural disasters.

A Government spokesperson said: «As this report rightly makes clear, the UK has been at the forefront of the humanitarian response to the Syria crisis and we will continue to push others to honour their commitments.

As Burundi marks its 55th year of independence, a Christian charity has told Premier its humanitarian crisis is worsening.

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.

As missionary personnel and Christian soldiers reported the humanitarian crisis to their constituencies in America, concern for the physical well - being of downtrodden Koreans began to percolate through the evangelical subculture.

These supplies are designed to meet international standards for humanitarian relief and are packaged up and ready to deploy as soon as a crisis strikes.

What we need is to recognize that some human rights crises may demand preemptive force (In the form of humanitarian intervention) as a deterrent to much greater violence.

Such considerations may appear unseemly when we are confronted by massive violations of human rights, yet ends and means are an important humanitarian consideration as well, since many humanitarian crises emerge from the destabilizing policies of the past.

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

At Save the Children, she built a media program in a newly created public affairs department, and led the U.S. agency's media response to major humanitarian crises, including post-9 / 11, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Haiti Earthquake as well as the agency's first advocacy - awareness campaign, Every Mother, Every Child and its signature research report, The State of the World's Mothers.

On Monday, Vaz attempted to carry on as usual by speaking in the Comm [1] ons about suspects on bail and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

Human Rights Watch reports claim that while West African forces helped restore security in these crises, which took place over a decade ago, they were also complicit in serious violations of international humanitarian law, including looting, harassment, and arbitrary detention of civilians, as well as — in the case of Sierra Leone — summary executions of suspected rebels.

The current international environment favors positive and sustainable changes in recognizing the special needs of persons with disabilities as integral to responses to humanitarian crises.

As discussed in the first article of this series, persons with disabilities have been overwhelmingly excluded from humanitarian aid in different crises worldwide.

Historically, international agreements and frameworks related to humanitarian crises (such as International Humanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable grhumanitarian crises (such as International Humanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable grHumanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable groups.»

As such, humanitarian agencies will need to change to keep up with new communications realities, but some domains will remain distinctly familiar: complex humanitarian emergencies; politically challenging environments; forgotten, difficult and smaller crises; and most vulnerable groups in major disasters.

Actors such as International Disability Alliance (IDA), International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC), Humanity & Inclusion, Christian Blind Mission (CBM), HelpAge International, Light for the World, Sightsavers have been leading an international movement to guarantee that the needs of persons with disabilities are met during humanitarian crises.

We considered traditional approaches but also more creative ones that recognised there are no neat divisions between the so - called «three pillars» of the UN, such as a focus on crises — humanitarian, security, political and environmental — or on prevention, straddling human rights, development and so on.

Other goals include humanitarian ones and stemming the refugee crisis, mostly failed, as the exodus continues and the bombing of Aleppo proceeds.

As I stated before, the siege of Gaza has led to a humanitarian crisis and massive protests.

The organization has declined from responding to the humanitarian crisis and needs as it affects children in IDP camps.

Not designed for an humanitarian crisis like that which has engulfed Europe, the regulation places the burden of a mass overland migration on the EU's border states, and it has been emphatically disregarded by Germany as they continue to lead Europe's disjointed response to the crisis.

Meanwhile, the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations described the situation in Afghanistan as an «increasingly acute humanitarian crHumanitarian Aid Operations described the situation in Afghanistan as an «increasingly acute humanitarian crhumanitarian crisis.»

Councilman Carlos Menchaca, who chairs the council's immigration committee, said Thursday the council's program has in part helped to solve what he described as a «humanitarian crisis.»

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump brought up the island's struggles before Hurricane Maria struck — including «billions of dollars» in debt to «Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with.»

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.

More than just humanitarian crises, resource scarcities can act as a flashpoint for regional or intrastate conflict.

As the world waits to see if its fractious leaders can secure the country's future, its citizens are finding it difficult to secure basic healthcare (see «Greek crisis: How to prevent a humanitarian disaster «-RRB-.

Making the publicity rounds with his 2015 film «Cartel Land,» centered around the brutally violent drug trade in Michoacan and people on both sides of the U.S. / American border who made it their business to combat it, Heineman had been reading up on the ongoing strife in Syria, looking for a way to tell of one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time as a result of the rise of the jihadist Islamic State.

In context, the «unequal status of women and girls» within Somali society «sharply increases their vulnerability» to many forms of violations key among them «gender - based violence during humanitarian crisis» as with any individual or family displacement more so due to conflict and drought, existing «community support structures» are disrupted exposing them to «unsafe physical surrounding» (Ibid) thereby increasing their vulnerability to exploitation.

The International Forum focused on this year's theme of «Rebuilding Lives: Education in Humanitarian Crises» and featured panelists such as Daniel Toole, director of the Office of Emergency Programs at UNICEF NY; Allison Anderson from the Inter-Agency Network on Education in Emergencies; Myron Belfar, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Dana Burde, associate research scholar at the Saltzmann Institute of War and Peace Studies; and Karim Thomas, an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School.

Shot in a refugee camp on the island of Lesvos in Greece, the film focuses on the relationship between faith and a global crisis, raising themes such as humanitarian duty and the presence of God in a time of need.

While many national media outlets have perpetuated an image of a national crisis and a Central American invasion, there is also a growing current across the country seeking to humanize these young people and to cast the issue as a humanitarian concern.

As we are seeing with the devastating drought in the Horn of Africa communities are increasingly vulnerable due to climate change and the international community is struggling to deal with the terrible humanitarian crisis.

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

The intensity of Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on September 20, was part of why it was so devastating to the island and its weak infrastructure, leaving Puerto Ricans in a humanitarian crisis.

Everyone knows how to play the game of marketing climate crisis activists as «prestigious» researchers, «leading humanitarian organizations» and alliances of «vulnerable» countries that «are experiencing the most direct impacts of climate change.»

As the tragedy in the Mediterranean demonstrates, the climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis http://t.co/UYs7m9am0L

Being one minute in a coffee farming area in Ethiopia, in the area of Sidamo or Yirgacheffe, areas that are celebrated around the world by coffee experts as producing some of the best coffee in the world, and the farmers there are facing a humanitarian crisis.