Urgent steps must be taken to end Syrian humanitarian crisis

Headline Title: Urgent steps must be taken to end Syrian humanitarian crisis 13 January 2014 The international community must act now to end the suffering of millions of Syrian civilians, many of whom are at risk of starvation and face severe shortages of medical care and adequate shelter, said Amnesty International ahead of a UN donor conference in Kuwait this week. “The world’s response to the Syria crisis so far has been woefully inadequate. At the end of 2013 the UN humanitarian appeal - the largest in the organization’s history - was just 70 per cent funded.…

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