According to a report Friday by Bloomberg News, Pakistani military officials say they need to return the refugees as part of a "border management program". But experts say such a move would provoke a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, which is ravaged by poverty, economic stagnation and an aggressive Taliban insurgency that has displaced more than 1 million people from their rural homes.
Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled, in the midst of a harsh winter, provoking a humanitarian crisis.
The fighting and naval blockade has provoked a humanitarian crisis in the Arab World's poorest country.
Tempting as it is to raise the specter of 1896 — Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" precedent — the better analogy is the 1955 decision known as Brown II, which ordered Southern schools desegregated "with all deliberate speed" but left that task to the segregationists who provoked the humanitarian crisis in the first place.
"Somalis are furious with us for backing the Ethiopian intervention and occupation, provoking this huge humanitarian crisis".
Few were out after days of urban warfare that had kept the city's residential areas in lockdown and provoked a serious humanitarian crisis.
This is not to say that the biggest refugee crisis since the war has not provoked a strong humanitarian response among the British public as it has in the rest of Europe.
Both were signers of a retrograde letter from 17 members of the House, including all those on Judy's list, who reiterated the dead end position that provoked her despair: humanitarian aid worker Alan Gross has remained imprisoned in Cuba for over four years for the "crime" of helping Cuba's small Jewish community connect to the internet.
We have found that while conflict and humanitarian crises provoke human suffering, they ironically provide an opportunity to refashion gender roles and challenge the social norms that exclude women from participating in civic and economic life.
In my book "Women and Gender in Iraq," I show how the rise of conservative social and religious forces dates to the humanitarian crisis provoked by United Nations sanctions in the 1990s.
