Humanitarian & Disaster Assistance

There are always unique circumstances in these disasters [like Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines]. It’s hard to prepare for these really big storms.

The international humanitarian response effort has been trying to ramp up support for this cross-border operation and Syrians playing an active role in these processes.

[The outbreak of polio] is clear evidence of the collapse of the health care system in Syria and the terrible humanitarian consequences.

[In Australia] what we have happening in the political space is an attempt to demonize and criminalize asylum seekers so that the general public sees them as a problem, as a threat, and as criminals, rather than as people who are in need of protection and have a right to seek it. Asylum seekers aren't doing something that is illegal by a matter of international law.