UN: Facing unprecedented challenges?
UN: Facing unprecedented challenges?
Aljazeera, 24 Sep 2014
URL: http://goo.gl/dZ9ojC
The United Nations is facing unprecedented demand for humanitarian assistance, and says it has less than half the money required to meet its needs.
Crises from Syria, Iraq and Libya to Ukraine, Somalia and Central African Republic are stretching the UN to breaking point.
They have also generated more refugees in the world than at any time since the end of the Second World War. The challenge of dealing with those conflicts has now been compounded by an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
World leaders are holding their annual meeting at the UN headquarters in New York to take stock of the tasks at hand.
Crises from Syria, Iraq and Libya to Ukraine, Somalia and Central African Republic are stretching the UN to breaking point.
They have also generated more refugees in the world than at any time since the end of the Second World War. The challenge of dealing with those conflicts has now been compounded by an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
World leaders are holding their annual meeting at the UN headquarters in New York to take stock of the tasks at hand.