A coordinated humanitarian response to the devastation and displacement affecting the Syrian people.
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox called the devastation "a humanitarian crisis" for his city of more than 83,000.
"Maria has left behind her a trail of devastation and a humanitarian crisis," she added.
He set up his colony (the Congo Free State) as a private, ostensibly humanitarian venture aimed at limiting the devastation of slaving and the liquor trade.
President Bush's praise of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as "a man of peace" stands in sharp contrast to the scenes of carnage and devastation that United Nations observers, humanitarian groups and your own reporters have described.
Humanitarian agencies are increasingly alarmed at the devastation in Aleppo.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the UN and its programs and affiliated agencies struggled to address humanitarian crises and civil wars, unprecedented refugee flows, the devastation caused by the spread of AIDS, global financial disruptions, international terrorism, and the disparities in wealth between the world's richest and poorest peoples.
Jane Cocking, the humanitarian director for Oxfam, said her colleagues witnessed "complete devastation".
Jane Cocking, the humanitarian director for Oxfam, said her colleagues witnessed "complete devastation... entire parts of the coastline just disappeared, and sizable trees just bent over and [were] thrown about like matchsticks".
For those fleeing active conflict zones, natural disasters, or the gradual devastation of climate change, a host of humanitarian relief agencies is standing by.
