Posts Tagged 'World Humanitarian Summit'

A McLeod Group Blog, April 22, 2016

by Ian Smillie

In May the United Nations will convene the first-ever ‘World Humanitarian Summit’ in Istanbul, bringing together world leaders, NGOs, the private sector and others—5000 people in all—to talk about the growing humanitarian challenges of our time. The objective is to ‘enable the world to better prepare for and respond to crises, and become more resilient to shocks.’ A ‘major shift’ in disaster prevention is foreseen.

Maybe.

For months, the humanitarian paper mill has ...