U.N. News Centre: Humanitarian system ‘scrambling’ to meet skyrocketing needs, warns U.N. refugee agency chief
“The global humanitarian system has reached its limits in dealing with the upward trend in forced displacement due to mounting pressures from conflicts and persecution around the world, the head of the United Nations refugee agency warned [Wednesday], calling on the humanitarian community to ‘think out of the box’ when it comes to funding emergency response…” (11/5).