The 15 Humanitarian Crises of 2012 -- UN Dispatch
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, better known as OCHA, released its 2012 Consolidated Appeal Process today. This is the mechanism by which humanitarian relief organizations in the UN (like UNICEF and the World Food Program) and major NGOs (like the Red Cross, Save the Children, Oxfam, Mercy Corps and others) project their needs to respond to discreet humanitarian emergencies that will extend into 2012.
This year, OCHA identified 15 humanitarian emergencies around the globe. Some are predicable: famine in Somalia, refugees in Sudan, Haiti earthquake relief; others you might not have noticed: flooding in the Philippines, a food crisis in Niger. The full list of humanitarian crises projected to last through 2012 is here:
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My Comment: North Korea should be on this list.