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    A Little Optimism, A Lot Of Pessimism: The 2019 Outlook For Humanitarian Crises

    An annual report from the U.N. humanitarian agency looks at the challenges ahead.
    by Joanne Lu Jan 24, 2019 4 minutes
    Access to water is increasingly entangled with conflict situations. Above: A young girl fills a bottle at a pump station at a camp for internally displaced people in Ain Issa, Syria.

    It's quite clear that 2018 was a tough year for the world's humanitarian agencies. They tried to provide help to the victims of ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Somalia, to name a few hot spots. And then there were the major disasters like the floods in India and the tsunami and earthquakes in Indonesia.

    This year, the challenges will continue in full force, according to an annual report from UNOCHA, the U.N. humanitarian agency, called World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2018.

    Indeed, there's no end in sight to many of the crises. "There's been limited progress in. That's because the root causes are increasingly a messy mix of conflict, climate shocks, poverty and social inequalities.

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