UNICEF's humanitarian action network is also delivering rapid emergency responses to children and families in crisis, relieving immediate suffering and promoting early recovery.
I get the change the system part, but I think religious people in particular are called to pay attention to immediate suffering and to do something about it.
Right now, however, we need proven strategies like Plumpy'nut to alleviate the immediate suffering of millions and to help address tragedies like the one currently unfolding in Niger, where nearly 300,000 children are dying from the food crisis.
Ordinary Americans were truly strangled by debt – suffering in immediate ways that rarely made the news – while we knew that bankrupt institutions had been propped up, with money from our taxes, only to go on foreclosing on soured mortgages and compounding our credit card service fees.
The four African countries have asked for $300 million in immediate compensation for losses they are suffering on the world market.
So long as he wasn't suffering ill health or in immediate receipt of terrible news affecting his state of mind, he should have fulfilled his contractual obligations.
In terms of immediate human suffering and sheer moral obtuseness, yes.
"Delays in immediate action to rectify the current situation are exacerbating human suffering and causing ongoing deterioration".
The emergency in the Horn of Africa has become a catastrophe, where more than 300,000 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition and are in immediate peril.
In immediate terms, obviously not.
