Humanitarian Crises

Deliver Humanitarian Aid - the United Nations

The Organization is now relied upon by the international community to coordinate humanitarian relief of emergencies due to natural and man-made disasters in ...

Public Health in Humanitarian Crises Modules

The potential for future disasters is great, and each having important public health components. New resources and new approaches will be needed to address ...

Respond to humanitarian crises - HelpAge International

We are seeking to change the humanitarian support system, making it more accountable and ensuring that older people are not excluded in the response.

Emergency Watchlist 2024 | International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Each year, the International Rescue Committee releases a list of the 20 humanitarian crises expected to deteriorate the most over the next year. For the ...

The New Humanitarian • humanitarian news and analysis from ...

The New Humanitarian is an independent, non-profit newsroom reporting from the heart of conflicts, disasters, and other crises.

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Our mission is to create new knowledge and advance evidence-based leadership in disasters and humanitarian crisis. Our work focuses on two main areas: the ...

What is a humanitarian disaster? - World Vision International

A humanitarian disaster occurs when the human, physical, economic or ... Responding to current emergencies is just one part of our response to disasters.

Global Humanitarian Overview 2024 [EN/AR/FR/ES] - OCHA

In 2024, nearly 300 million people around the world will need humanitarian assistance and protection, due to conflicts, climate emergencies and other drivers.

Scientists describe challenges and lessons learned when ...

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are affected by humanitarian crises such as armed conflict, forced displacement, natural disasters and major ...

Center for Humanitarian Emergencies | Emory University | Atlanta GA

Center for Humanitarian Emergencies. Driving global collaboration, research and evidence-based training to improve the lives and well-being of populations ...

Public Health in Humanitarian Crises

We will discuss the nature of disasters, how they affect lives and livelihoods, the diseases that occur, and how to respond to the basic public health needs of ...

Current Humanitarian Crises and the UNICEF Response

Natural disasters, war, chronic poverty and the 2021 change in leadership resulted in more than half the population of Afghanistan requiring urgent humanitarian ...

Humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border

Humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border. Unaccompanied child. The current influx of unaccompanied children at the United States' southern border is an ...

DEFINITION OF COMPLEX EMERGENCIES - IASC

A Complex Emergency is defined as: a) a humanitarian crisis which occurs in a country, region, or society where there is a total or considerable breakdown of ...

HIV/AIDS in Humanitarian Crises - CIRA - Yale University

HIV/AIDS in Humanitarian Crises · Identify research questions related to the well-being of people with HIV or at risk for HIV and affected by humanitarian ...

Responding “Here and There” to Global Humanitarian Crises

We at World Relief are responding with a distinct “here and there” approach that unites our US and international work to boldly address the urgent realities of ...

ReliefWeb Response | ReliefWeb Response

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains one of the world's most complex and protracted humanitarian crises in the world. An estimated 26.4 ...

Emergencies - UNHCR

... humanitarian crises. Often they must flee with little more than the clothes ... Deploy crisis response experts: We immediately mobilize our humanitarian ...

The news that's not used: 8 forgotten humanitarian crises to know ...

Based on humanitarian data from UNOCHA's 2024 Global Humanitarian Overview, here are 8 forgotten humanitarian crises that you should know about.

Improving evidence for health in humanitarian crises - The Lancet

Public health information in crisis-affected populations: a review of methods and their use for advocacy and action