Anshul Uniyal
News in brief
humanitarian crisis
Sebastian Bolesch
Opinion
Long live the (humanitarian) crisis!
06/22/2009According to Wikipedia, "a humanitarian crisis is an event or series of events which carry with them a critical threat to the health, safety or wellbeing of a collectivity, usually over a wide area.
Amador Gullar
Opinion
Humanitarian action victim of its own success
01/01/2003The international aid regime tends to exaggerate changes over the last decade in the nature of so-called humanitarian crises. Neither violence perpetrated against civilian populations nor the dilemmas posed to aid organisations attempting to assist them have worsened since the end of the Cold War.