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Residents of the devastated neighborhood endured another day with scarce or no access to running water, electricity and medical supplies, as the humanitarian toll of the nearly year-old Syrian conflict escalates.
The U.N. humanitarian affairs office says the number of refugees is expected to double next year to 1.1 million.
He was named the winner of the 2013 Robert Burns Humanitarian Award earlier this year.
The 64-year-old Garner leads the Defense Department's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.
The 64-year-old now leads the Defense Department's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.
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He said that the U.S. was unlikely to resume its own humanitarian assistance to the North because of Kim Jong Eun's backing out of last year's aid agreement.
If a critical mass of Member States follows these and other good examples, then we will be in a position to know, at the beginning of each year, what resources are available for humanitarian action, and to prioritize accordingly.
Mr McShane was with the "Antrim to Gaza" group which travelled to the strip last year as part of a major land convoy bringing humanitarian aid to civilians.
The Sudanese Government is restricting humanitarian flights into some rebel-held areas and aid agencies warn that this year could see a repeat of the 1998 famine in which an estimated 100, 000 people are thought to have died.
In the peak year of 2008, when 36, 000 came ashore, three quarters asked for humanitarian protection.
In the Irrawaddy delta in the wake of cyclone Nargis, which struck last year killing 140, 000, deciding how humanitarian aid should be spent has increased civic participation and local autonomy in the face of an uncaring regime.
The humanitarian effort has been hampered by the three-year drought which, quite apart from war, has devastated much of the country, particularly the south.
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