But as summer temperatures rise in northern Pakistan, Human Rights Watch foresees a "humanitarian catastrophe .The prospect of this upheaval had until recently, the army claimed, deterred it from trying to drive the Taliban from Swat.
Just consider the humanitarian aspect.
"What we see in Yemen is a potential humanitarian crisis, the prospect of economic collapse, and possible areas of conflict," Jamal Benomar, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, said in an interview in Sana.
* The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee reviews the humanitarian situation and prospects for economic development in the West Bank and Gaza and launches a major donor assistance effort, including to the reform effort.
But the principal requirement of an intervention on humanitarian grounds is the prospect, on balance, that it will offer greater protection to vulnerable civilian populations.
What really worried the officials was the prospect that a humanitarian crisis would explode before the political turmoil could be resolved.
It's an attractive prospect, wedding together humanitarian and national security concerns, creating a potential bipartisan space in foreign policy.
These victories offer two terrifying prospects, one for humanitarian reasons, the other for strategic reasons.
A properly constituted global humanitarian fund would have good prospects of mobilising much more funding for humanitarian crises than is presently available, from both governments and private donors.
Everyone still in Aleppo knows they face long months of hunger and suffering, he says, but they fear the "humanitarian corridors" offer even grimmer prospects, for several reasons.
Such models are already making a huge contribution to such fields as disaster risk reduction, disaster forecasting, risk finance, and humanitarian relief efforts, and the prospects for further improvements in model skill are very good.
