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    The humanitarian crisis in Yemen has attracted global attention. The Yemenis citizens cry out for help from other countries to help them stop the spread of Cholera and terrorism in the region. The United Nations Security Council has decided to intervene, however, the Security Council members are having a tough time coming to a consensus regarding what types of intervention should be used. Bolivia, a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has condemned the terrorism in Yemen

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    Abstract: Humanitarian crises and international politics goes hand in hand. One can cause the other, while the only way to fix the other is to rely on politics. This paper will highlight the cause of genocide, violent massacres and crisis, how to solve them, and key roles politicians and nations must take up wholeheartedly in order to make a difference. Personal and political reconciliation must occur in the parties involved ever want to have a mutual co existence.

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    Humanitarian Crisis: ICRC and MSF’s safety compromised due to Syrian Conflict Introduction In September 2016, Secretary John Kerry negotiated a cease-fire agreement between the United States and Russia, in order to allow aid convoys to provide relief. However, on September nineteenth, 18 out of the 31 convoys were attacked by an airstrike. The attack resulted in the death of 21 civilians and one Syrian Arab Crescent member (Hennessy-Fiske, 2016). Some immediately assumed Russia was responsible and

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    do not know is that Yemen is one of the worst humanitarian crises occurring today. Yemen is located in the Middle East, north of the horn of Africa and south of Saudi Arabia. Before the current conflict began, Yemen was already the poorest country in the Middle East, with half of their population at or below the poverty line. Since 2004, a war between the Republic of Yemen Government (RoYG) and the Houthi rebels began, which increased the humanitarian crises in Yemen (Whitaker, 2011). This affects

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    The recent conflict in Syria encompass a series of events that have led to a political and humanitarian crisis. Since the civilization origins, Syria have suffered invasions, changes and violence. In the 1900’s and after 400 years of Ottoman Empire domain, the Arabs army, supported by French, entered in Damascus. Emir Feisal was crown as king of Syria but he was forced to dismiss few months later by French troops. A new France’ state have been arisen, and it was divided in tree separate regions

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    Last week, I read an article in the New York Times, called It’s a Slow Death’: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis. It talked about the recent cholera outbreak in Yemen, which killed almost 2,000 people in three weeks and infected over 500,000. The authors have presented three critical graphs in this article. The first one is a thematic map of cholera case density in Yemen. The map shows that western Yemen is the most heavily affected, several parts of which have reached an infection rate of 300

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    What comes to mind when you hear a country is going through a humanitarian crisis? Perhaps destruction, genocide, surveillance, propaganda, civilians not having a voice, and much more. This is what happened in the city of Aleppo in Syria. Aleppo was one of the oldest city with marvelous medieval architecture, rich cultural history, and its popularity in tourism. Aleppo was an open museum and a home to two and half million people, but all of that was lost in the Battle of Aleppo. Syria is ruled by

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    The situation in Chechnya is out of hand, a senseless echo of Stalin in a day where the expression of such rank evil should not occur or be tolerated. An interview with a local Chechen refugee solidified my understanding of the situation. However, meeting a survivor face-to-face also made the situation seem more real and therefore much more painful. When asked to comment on the film "Crying Sun," my subject took a deep breath. "This is just like what happened in our village," she said. There were

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    involved in humanitarian crises which even involved mass genocide. The U.S. provided aid in these international crises, sometimes even to the point of supplying military force. Although highly controversial and continually debated, America’s position as a world power will always bring with it the responsibility to aid in humanitarian crises when it is identified that foreign citizens are denied basic, recognized human rights. The United States became involved in a major humanitarian crisis in 1934,

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    The refugee crisis has been one of the most heavily debated issues of the present times. While supporters view the crisis as a humanitarian issue, there are many others who consider it to be more economic and political in nature. The article chosen for analysis describes the response of different countries in the European Union to the migrant crisis (Smale, 2016). It also presents varying and often conflicting views of members of countries as to what may be a solution to this situation on hand. It

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