Humanitarian crisis
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A humanitarian crisis (or "humanitarian disaster") is an event or series of events which represents a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people, usually over a wide area. Armed conflicts, epidemics, famine, natural disasters and other major emergencies may all involve or lead to a humanitarian crisis.
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See also
- Aid agency
- Central Emergency Response Fund
- Emergency management
- Human security
- Humanitarian aid
- Humanitarian intervention
- International humanitarian law
- List of droughts
- List of epidemics
- List of natural disasters by death toll
- Outline of war
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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