International Rescue Committee: 2020 - Majority of Lives at Risk Concentrated in 20 Countries
January 08, 2020
January 08, 2020
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 -- The International Rescue Committee issued the following news release:
The International Rescue Committee's (IRC) emergency response experts have ranked the countries most at risk of humanitarian catastrophe for 2020. In order, Yemen (number one for the second year in a row), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Nigeria and Venezuela are Watchlist 2020's top five crises, all five of which ranked highly in the 2019 list, demonstrating the collective failure . . .
The International Rescue Committee's (IRC) emergency response experts have ranked the countries most at risk of humanitarian catastrophe for 2020. In order, Yemen (number one for the second year in a row), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Nigeria and Venezuela are Watchlist 2020's top five crises, all five of which ranked highly in the 2019 list, demonstrating the collective failure . . .