Sentences with phrase «state of humanitarian crisis»

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Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

WASHINGTON, March 21 - The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 15 South Sudanese oil operators that it said were important sources of cash for the government, an action aimed at increasing pressure on President Salva Kiir to end the country's conflict and humanitarian crisis.

Senator Bernie Sanders, a sponsor of the resolution, said the United States, a major provider of weapons to Saudi Arabia and intelligence and logistical support to the Saudis in Yemen, should not be involved in the three - year - old war that has unleashed the worlds worst humanitarian crisis.

The White House said Pence would use his address to the Organization of American States to call on nations to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to address the country's humanitarian crisis, release political prisoners and hold free and fair elections.

More details about the state of the city are rolling in every hour, but what we do know is that people there are facing what experts are calling one of the greatest humanitarian crises of this generation.

Given the present state of affairs, I am going to be donating all proceeds to the International Rescue Committee who respond to the world's worst humanitarian crises.

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.

Last Saturday the Red Cross called the state of the NHS a humanitarian crisis.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Senate's call followed the interim report of its ad - hoc committee on certain humanitarian crisis in the North East led by Shehu Sani, which indicted Lawal for receiving N200m contract to clear «invasive plant species» in Yobe State through a company, Rholavision Nigeria Limited.

The group warned that if the current occupation by the military was not stopped, fleeing residents of the area would face serious humanitarian crisis and pose a problem to the state and the nation at large.

«The loss of heat and hot water is a humanitarian crisis, it's a state of emergency, it's a management failure of the highest magnitude,» said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who grew up in public housing in the 1990s and said he's never seen the system in worse shape than it is now.

President Akufo - Addo and Jeremy Corbyn also discussed issues bordering on the deepening of democracy amongst member states of the Commonwealth, the worsening humanitarian crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria, United Nations Reforms, in particular reform of the UN Security Council, BREXIT, an increase in trade co-operation between Ghana and the UK, and migration.

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.

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Exploring the historic arc of migration, Akomfrah's work is particularly pertinent given the migration issues and refugee crisis — and surrounding humanitarian concerns and political debates — currently dominating international cooperation and nation - state decision making.

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.