Child protection in humanitarian crises is consistently the least funded area of humanitarian response.
These specialists will address a range of questions that have arisen from the tsunami and resulting humanitarian response, including: How can a country prepare for the unexpected?
"We are greatly relieved to hear that they are safe after their terrible ordeal, " said Peter Swift, chairman of the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme, which has been tracking the ship's saga.
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The humanitarian response is struggling with chronic underfunding.
Thanks to the generosity of the British and American people, our nations led a significant humanitarian response that helped save hundreds of thousands of lives in Somalia alone, and reached millions of people across the region with food, health care, and water and sanitation services.
South Korea suspended its humanitarian aid in response to missile tests by North Korea last July.
"The successful maiden flight of the Y-20 is important in promoting China's economic and national defense buildup, as well as improving its emergency response and humanitarian aid abilities, " the Ministry of National Defense said on its website.
Following Burma, at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, the President will address a broad set of issues of concern to the Asia-Pacific Region -- from maritime security and law enforcement to disaster response and humanitarian assistance, development, infectious disease, education, food security, and energy.
From there, it could become possible for the SIMs to communicate with rogue cell phone towers -- maybe 10 feet tall -- that could be set up in response to a humanitarian crisis like the Haiti earthquake or a communications blackout like those seen in Egypt, Libya or Syria.
Tzu Chi, founded in 1966, counts 2 million volunteers around the world and is known for its rapid response to natural disasters and humanitarian aid in inhospitable places such as North Korea.
Today I want to thank all of them for leading a swift and coordinated response during one of the most complex humanitarian efforts ever attempted.
We airlift bottled water to disasters, which permits bottled water companies to claim great humanitarian benefits, but is an extraordinarily expensive and unsustainable response.
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What is certain is that the response has already far exceeded that following other humanitarian crises including some in which the loss of life has exceeded the 150, 000 now thought to have been killed, such as Congo's war (perhaps 3m dead), or matched it, such as Bangladesh's cyclone in 1991 (140, 000 dead).
In response, US Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said humanitarian aid was permitted under current sanctions.
And I could not be prouder of the response that all of you were engaged in during this humanitarian crisis.
The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kanzo Oshima, says he is still waiting for a response after offering to send UN staff back into Afghanistan if the Taleban will guarantee their safety.
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Much of the money will be spent on raising 5, 000 soldiers for a rapid-response brigade, which might add muscle to Mr Martin's support for humanitarian interventions in failing states.
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