humanitarian
(adjective)
Concerned with people's welfare and the alleviation of suffering; humane or compassionate.
Examples of humanitarian in the following topics:
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Humanitarian Efforts
- Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
- Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
- The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity.
- The funding and delivery of humanitarian aid has become increasingly international in scope.
- With humanitarian aid efforts sometimes criticized for a lack of transparency, the humanitarian community has initiated a number of inter-agency initiatives to improve its accountability, quality and performance.
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International Humanitarian Policies and Foreign Aid
- Humanitarian policies are ostensibly intended to help other countries, and include human rights policies, aid, and interventions.
- International humanitarian policies can take a number of different forms.
- There are three main types of economic foreign aid: humanitarian aid, development aid, and food aid.
- In this humanitarian intervention, NATO forces intervened in Kosovo.
- Analyze the emergence and justification for humanitarian intervention in world politics
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The United Nations
- The United Nations was established to replace the flawed League of Nations, in order to maintain international peace and promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems.
- It is through these agencies that the UN performs most of its humanitarian work.
- The UN is a world leader in human rights protection and humanitarian assistance.
- The UN and its agencies are central in upholding and implementing the principles enshrined in the Declaration, from assisting countries transitioning to democracy, to supporting women's rights, to providing humanitarian aid.
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Economic Aid and Sanctions
- Aid may have other functions besides humanitarian: it may be given to signal diplomatic approval, strengthen a military ally, reward a government for behavior desired by the donor, extend the donor's cultural influence, provide infrastructure needed by the donor for resource extraction from the recipient country, or gain other kinds of commercial access.
- Humanitarianism and altruism are, nevertheless, significant motivations for the giving of aid.
- Economic sanctions also can be a coercive foreign policy measure used to achieve particular policy goals related to trade, governance, or humanitarian violations.