All of this amounted to a human and economic disaster in the making.

That would be a human tragedy, not just an economic disaster.

Since 2003 there has been an ongoing conflict in Darfur which has become a humanitarian disaster.

For the Palestinians, the situation is oppressive, and for Gaza it is an outright humanitarian disaster.

If the international community did not further commit itself to ensuring strict respect for international law and the agreements concluded, it would soon be confronted with a humanitarian disaster.

I fled because the whole world became suddenly and intentionally blind, deaf and mute toward our human made disaster in Syria.

With regard to an operation conducted for the purpose of delivering humanitarian assistance in response to a natural disaster, Kenya was flexible on the applicability of the optional protocol.

The first step is to gather reliable information so that it is possible to know what international measures are required to prevent a disaster.

All of these contradictions are currently exploding in Syria, whose population is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe, while the world stands by, up to now unwilling to intervene.

The Communist leadership perceived famine as a means of class struggle and used starvation as a punishment tool to force peasants into collective farms.

First, world leaders are uniting to address the greatest challenge we face as a human family the threat of catastrophic climate change. Last week, 101 leaders from 163 countries met to chart the next steps toward December s all important UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.

That long term siege, put in place after Hamas assumed sole control of the government in Gaza breaking with the Palestine National Authority in the process is a humanitarian catastrophe and a grave moral error.

However, if a particular Government fails to live up to that responsibility, the international community has the obligation to take all necessary steps and use all available and necessary means to prevent a major humanitarian disaster.

Mr. Norzuhdy (Malaysia) said that Malaysia recognized the vital role of UNRWA in preventing a more serious humanitarian disaster through its work in alleviating the plight of the Palestinian refugees.

3. Notes with concern the cyclical drought phenomenon in Djibouti, which is wreaking a major humanitarian disaster upon tens of thousands of people, particularly those who are vulnerable, and requests the international community to respond to the appeal launched by the Government

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Darfur is a humanitarian catastrophe more than 200,000 dead, thousands raped and tortured, and 2.6 million people displaced, owing to the Sudanese government s war against its own people.

The more human society departs from justice and spirituality, the greater the insecurity it will face, so much so that a relatively small crisis such as a natural disaster can lead to various aberrations and inhumane behaviour.

Expanded outreach by around 12,500 aid workers has averted a humanitarian catastrophe, with no major outbreaks of disease or famine reported.

Human rights?

Humanity still exists!

Conscious of the long term nature of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was a major technological catastrophe in terms of its scope and created humanitarian, environmental, social, economic and health consequences in the affected countries,

If the Gaza campaign turns Lebanon like, with a humanitarian catastrophe, ongoing bombardment of Israeli civilians, or both, domestic criticism will echo loud and clear.

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

In the days before Obama takes office, while a power vacuum persists in the US, the European Union has a unique role to play in international initiatives to end the violence and the unfolding humanitarian crisis.

This will set policy priorities straight, put strategies in place to avert a human catastrophe, and help Africa secure its rightful place at the global economic table.

It's a catastrophe.

We have supplied humanitarian aid to refugees.

On an exceptional basis, UNHCR provided time limited humanitarian assistance in Sri Lanka and Indonesia in coordination with United Nations Country Teams in response to the December 2004 tsunami and a request by the Secretary General.

... and then a catastrophe happened.

Ending Child Marriage

That neglect is a human tragedy.

Things were absolutely inhumane.

These deaths are not only human tragedies, but also calamities for economic development, systematically reducing economic growth and helping to keep the poorest countries trapped in poverty.

In response to this challenge, the Government of Ukraine immediately provided humanitarian assistance to the stricken countries and decided to make a financial contribution to UNICEF to provide assistance to the children who had suffered from the tsunami in South East Asia.

Sami's own life is a complete disaster.

Mutant Chernobyl Style

We are facing a violent crisis.

We are facing a violent crisis.

As a result, the likelihood of another disaster on the scale of Fukushima has been reduced.

Together we have built up a remarkable humanitarian operation.

Russia also delivers significant humanitarian assistance.

America s Debt Ceiling Debacle

A new catastrophe befalls the Arab world.