Crises, Challenges and Response Humanitarian Action: the Challenge for African Youth
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Future humanitarian crises: challenges for practice, policy, and public health.
After more than three decades of preoccupation with wars and internal political conflicts, the humanitarian community has the opportunity to reevaluate what humanitarian crises will dominate both policy and practice in the future. In reality, these crises are already active and some are over the tipping point of recovery. These crises share the common thread of being major public health emergen...
متن کاملThe challenges of securing health in humanitarian crises.
By early 2004 more than one million people had sought to escape violence and suffering in the three states of the Darfur region of Sudan. More than 180 000 of these displaced people are refugees in Chad; the majority, however, remain in Darfur, crowded into more than 100 camps scattered across 540 000 km. They are dependent on external help for protection, adequate supplies of safe drinking-wat...
متن کاملCaring about humanitarian crises
Wars and natural disasters causing thousands of deaths and forcing millions to fl ee occur frequently and are widely reported to a global audience. However, responses in terms of charity donations, demonstrations, political response and military intervention are dramatically different between one case and the next. When and why do we care about victims of humanitarian crises? Michael Gross inve...
متن کاملForgotten Humanitarian Crises
When states collapse. When basic state functions are no longer carried out. When people have no security. Then humanitarian crises erupt. This article will focus on the response to humanitarian crises in relation to state collapse. What are the roles and responsibilities of the media and the political decision-makers respectively? Confronting the problem of state collapse, the stronger states h...
متن کاملNutrition in humanitarian crises.
It is anticipated that humanitarian crisis situations will continue to occur in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region affecting large segments of vulnerable populations. Subsequently the magnitude and effectiveness of the humanitarian response, particularly for food and nutrition, must be based on best practices and sound information of affected populations. To bridge the burgeoning gap...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Refugee Survey Quarterly
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1020-4067,1471-695X
DOI: 10.1093/rsq/hdi0173