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unusual facts about humanitarian crisis


Humanitarian crisis

An ongoing or lingering pandemic may amount to a humanitarian crisis, especially where there are increasing levels of virulence, or rates of infection as in the case of AIDS, bird flu or Tuberculosis.


Global Business Assist

As the Darfur conflict erupted, GBA has focused its efforts on Sudan with a campaign called Sudan Challenge: a fund raising campaign which partners with several other organizations, most notably, the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the Chevron Houston Marathon, in order to raise funds for and awareness about the economic and humanitarian crisis in Darfur and Southern Sudan.


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Barnaby Phillips

Phillips has worked extensively in the Middle East, West Africa, Asia and Europe and has covered major stories such as the AIDS epidemic, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, the war in Liberia and the 2002 Southern African food crises, the war in Iraq and the South Asian Tsunami.

C. J. Cregg

She successfully navigates the murky waters of UN politics, setting up a UN Security Council resolution to end the (real-life) humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The largest effort of 2005 was the response to the humanitarian crisis of Hurricane Katrina.

Operation Hajji Baba

Saeb Salam, a member of the Parliament of Lebanon and future prime minister, saw the potential for a minor humanitarian crisis in the making.