UN’s next stop: Humanitarian summit to resolve exploding refugee crisis

[Jefferson23]

KUWAIT CITY - As the world’s spreading humanitarian crisis threatens to spill beyond the borders of Syria and Iraq into Libya and Yemen, the United Nations is already setting its sights on the first World Humanitarian Summit scheduled to take place in Istanbul next year.

“Let us make the response to the Syria crisis a launching pad for a new, truly global partnership for humanitarian response,” says Antonio Guterres, the UN high commissioner for refugees.

That partnership could come in Istanbul in May next year – even as the refugee crisis may worsen in the next 12 months.

The flow of some 12.2mn refugees from Syria alone is having a devastating impact on the economies and societies in five countries: Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-s-next-stop-humanitarian-summit-resolve-exploding-refugee-crisis-3466425

[KoKo]

1. Recommend.....Not covered in most media and merely a statistic in the USA Media.

Very few in the news media do "on the ground" reporting about this. The death of family networks, destruction of homes, loss of businesses and ways to earn income for hundreds of thousands living in Refugee Camps with nowhere to go and nothing left to return home to. The Rich always get out and find another country to live in and they have their money hidden away and secure in offshore banks. It's the Poor and Middle Class who suffer and the old and children who are the most vulnerable.

[Jefferson23]

5. You're right, not part of the msm news cycle in any depth anyway. n/t

[bemildred]

2. +1.

War, pestilence, and famine, coming right up.

ISIS fighters hit by deadly flesh-eating disease:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/isis-fighters-hit-by-deadly-flesh-eating-disease/article/429932

[Jefferson23]

4. How in the hell does one ignore that...yikes.

Thanks for the additional info.

[quadrature]

3. next time. don't attack Libya ...nt