Humanitarian crisis

The mounting civilian casualties in Syria and the displacement of over 6 million Syrians –with prospects of both more casualties and more displacement – make this the most daunting humanitarian crisis facing the world today. Syria is a West Asian country, a region in which the Muslim populace predominates. The problems in Syria began in 2011 as a peaceful protest but quickly rose into an armed civil conflict which has cost the lives of 100,000 people and forced over two million to flee to the relative safety of neighboring countries. This conflict has captured the world’s attention because of the tactics employed by the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. Unarmed civilians were attacked and killed by government troops as they searched for…

Within recent years, refugees fleeing from their home countries because of political reasons, on boats with severe conditions, increased immensely, and the Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian Committee needs to tackle the problem of maritime refugees immediately to provide the refugees with safety and security to ensure their basic human rights. Search for missing refugees and rescue of the drowning refugees have been continued and the number of reported deaths declined. However, the issue of…

The Endless Humanitarian Crisis The humanitarian crisis of this world is at a level never seen in the history of man. Not since World War II have there been so many refugees or IDPs. In 2014, there were almost 60 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) around the globe right now. Put another way, that’s one in every 122 people worldwide. An immediate and perhaps unprecedented action has to occur to react to the unprecedented amount of people in dire need of necessities. As…

The situation in Yemen continues to show no improvements. The significant increase of hostilities in the western coast of the country have been alarming since it has been estimated that around 34,000 people have been forced to displace due to the constant fighting, making them flee to safer parts of the region. The problem is that the country in general is facing a humanitarian crisis and while people may move to safer areas the reality is that basic goods such as food and water are already…

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Brief Background The Syrian civil war has been named the worst humanitarian crisis of our day. An estimated 13.4 million people are in desperate need of humanitarian aid (UNHCR). 4.7 million of whom have fled to bordering countries, while 8.7 million remain within the county’s borders – internally displaced (UNHCR). The conflict in Syria started in 2011 just as the Arab Uprisings began toppling authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. In March of 2011 Syria joined the uprisings by conducting…

organizations providing aid and donating money; WFP and FAO are also distributing food to as many people as possible. Humanitarian organizations added about $56 million dollars ton Haiti’s funding. WFP began mobilizing resources, and aid agencies had to battle to get through remote areas. Red Cross and Red Crescent also launched an appeal for about £5.8 million pounds, which is about $7224770.00 US dollars. World vision helped provide water and sanitation as well. United Nation was only…

form of liberation to humanitarian crises with key players not being the armed military men and women but unsuspecting volunteers who use medicine and syringes as has been seen in Syria, Libya and other countries like Iraq whose disasters bear similar characteristics to a horrific movie. In this book, Rieff shows how organizations, which serve in humanitarian conflict, try to alleviate the suffering of the civilians in these countries. The book paints a clear yet pensive picture of the horrors…

For the last few years, a refugee crisis has swept through Europe. Due to the fighting of insurgent groups such as the Islamic State and its affiliates and allies as well as the opposing rebel groups and allies, masses of displaced civilians have simultaneously flooded into Europe and surrounding Middle Eastern countries. Through this memorandum, I will look at the theoretical underpinnings of refugees and immigration policy and the current U.S. Policy on Syrian refugees. The policy that should…

This quote from a Nepalese affected by the Earthquake in 2015, shows that the international humanitarian system needs a fundamental reorientation from supplying aid to supporting and facilitating communities' own relief and recovery priorities. In addition Nigel Fisher, a former Humanitarian Coordinator talks in this Video, how listening to the voices of local communities affected by disaster is essential and a very important part of humanitarian response. “People who are affected and people…