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But, as we respond to the current humanitarian emergency due to higher food prices, we must not lose sight of the longer-term problems that have undermined food security in recent decades.
Political, humanitarian, and intelligence tools from more than 60 countries are being used to support unified military action.
That would be painful anywhere, but it would be devastating in regions already rife with political turmoil and humanitarian crises.
In Darfur, the human rights and humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, and the peace process there has made little headway.
For Europe, this means that money that would otherwise go to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance can largely be saved and used in part for development.
The Islamic State’s military triumphs in Iraq and Syria are not only fueling a humanitarian catastrophe; they are also throwing the region’s existing alliances into disarray and even calling into question national borders.
Some argued for an absolute requirement of Security Council authorization, while others recognized an imperative to contemplate humanitarian intervention without such authorization in “very narrowly defined exceptional cases.”
More intense hurricanes, typhoons, and droughts are increasing the demand for military-assisted humanitarian responses, most notably in the Pacific.
The loud cheering that has greeted past humanitarian aid pledges has given way to a shameful silence.
Education spending is still caught between humanitarian aid, which focuses on the most basic necessities for survival, such as food, shelter, and medicine, and development aid programs, which are planned over years and are slower to respond to crises.
Meanwhile, organizations like the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UNICEF, and UNESCO are doing laudable humanitarian work, but remain underfunded.
In Syria, a devastating and protracted civil war has left more than seven million children in need of humanitarian assistance, and some 2.5 million without homes.
What has happened in recent years in South Sudan, northern Nigeria, and Iraq – and in Jordan, and Lebanon, where hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugee children are being denied the chance to return to school – makes an overwhelming case for a new humanitarian fund for education in emergencies.
In 2014, education received just 1% of humanitarian funds – leaving millions of children and young people on the streets or idle in camps.
Given such crises, the world can no longer afford to do without a humanitarian fund for education during emergencies.
Countries can argue that they have actively sought a diplomatic solution and have even offered humanitarian assistance, only to be rejected by the Maduro regime.
How humanitarian.
For Turkey, the civil war in Syria has created an additional challenge in the form of a humanitarian crisis.
The Last Pagans of IraqSINGAPORE – With US President Barack Obama belatedly ordering air strikes and humanitarian airdrops of food and relief supplies to refugees in northern Iraq, the world is finally taking action against the Islamic State.
Rouhani must have known that his failure to address the humanitarian disaster in Syria would damage his diplomatic strategy, which suggests that he must have had a strong reason.
Even when genocide remains contained within borders, the violence eventually tends to spill over into neighboring states, igniting regional wars, undermining global stability, and eventually costing billions as the world starts to tend to the humanitarian byproducts of slaughter.
In the few instances where the US took steps to alter the behavior of repressive states, Europe's governments and peoples expressed open skepticism about the sincerity of America's humanitarian motives.
The dangerous conditions of the migrants’ journey constitute a serious humanitarian crisis.
What is needed is careful consideration of how best to balance humanitarian imperatives with security concerns, domestic social welfare with international legal obligations, and member countries’ duties to one another with their responsibilities to their own citizens.
A new report that emerged this year from the Commission’s work, Protecting Children in Armed Conflict, edited by Shaheed Fatima QC, also calls for radical changes – for schools in conflict zones to enjoy the same effective protection as hospitals; for states to take active measures to prevent sexual violence against children and to prevent child abductions and trafficking, and for a clear declaration that denial of humanitarian access is always unlawful where civilians are at risk of starvation.
For the Palestinians, the situation is oppressive, and for Gaza it is an outright humanitarian disaster.
But the arcane details of that process must not be allowed to obscure the reality that the world is facing a serious humanitarian crisis.
To break with that tradition – or, worse, to play an active role in creating a humanitarian crisis – would amount to a repudiation of the values America claims to uphold.
Sensing this, China and South Korea have provided humanitarian and economic aid to areas affected by the earthquake, and both countries were quick to send specialized teams to Japan to search for the missing.
This raises a simple question: Why have so many people – first in the United States, and then around the world – seemed so eager to support ALS research while ignoring a far more urgent public-health (if not humanitarian) crisis.
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