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Expert Sources: People with disabilities often forgotten during crisis
Are people with disabilities being left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Are people with disabilities being left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic?
What does it take for a health worker to wish death for her patient, even while doing everything to save her? This is just one of the agonizing questions I was confronted with during a mental health assessment.
The largely urban conflict in Syria has also had a major impact on cities in neighbouring countries. Lebanon, which hosts some 1.2million Syrians, is dealing with complex confessional fault lines.
As cities take on greater importance — as population centres and economic hubs — they have also become front lines in most of today’s conflicts.
Even before conflict broke out in Iraq and Syria, people in the Middle East were suffering from severe water shortages as the past few years’ rising violence and record low rainfall have made access to an adequate quantity and quality of water increasingly difficult, according to a recent report by the ICRC.
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