Humanitarian Crisis and Civil Society Actors

United Nations peacekeeping mission: In recent weeks armed groups have targeted humanitarian workers and resurgent sectarian violence has led civil society actors to warn of the possibility of genocidal violence, according to Huffington Post Canada. In the midst of this deteriorating security environment, a massive humanitarian crisis continues to develop. Despite the deployment of a new United Nations peacekeeping mission in 2014, violence continues. More than 2.7 million civilians are in need of humanitarian assistance; almost 1 million have been internally or externally displaced from the fighting. Children are the hardest hit by this crisis. The situation in CAR has been declared by the UN as a "Level 3 Emergency" -- a rating it currently shares with Syria, South Sudan and Iraq. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.