Humanitarian crisis

Humaniatarian crisis is the name for one or more related events that threaten the  health, safety or well-being of a large group of people."What Is a Humanitarian Crisis" , Humanitarian Coalition, Retrieved on 6 May 2013. A humanitarian crisis may be the result of a conflict. Depending on the crisis, local or national authorities or the international community needs to react to resolve the crisis. 

Each humanitarian crisis is caused by different factors and as a result, each different humanitarian crisis requires a unique response targeted towards the specific sectors affected. This can result in either short-term or long-term damage. Humanitarian crises can either be natural disasters, human-made disasters or complex emergencies. In such cases, complex emergencies occur as a result of several factors or events that prevent a large group of people from accessing their fundamental needs, such as food, clean water or safe shelter.So experts exclude that to address such crises it is possible to deny essential goods or pledging any action not to alleviate the suffering:if it continues too long, people will get violent.Humanitarian Experts Debate Trump's Use Of The Term 'Humanitarian Crisis', NPR24, January 9, 2019 .

Common causes of humanitarian crises are wars, epidemics, famine, natural disasters, energy crises and other major emergencies."Humanitarian workshop flyer" , Retrieved on 7 May 2013. If a crisis causes large movements of people it could also become a refugee crisis. For these reasons, humanitarian crises are often interconnected and complex and several national and international agencies play roles in the repercussions of the incidences.

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