Quotes About Humanitarian

One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime.

The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on humanitarian grounds. . . .

East DR Congo Faces Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis 4,450

You Americans think you can fix everything by throwing money at it," she added. "But your friend was right. This is like the Stone Age. Because no one will let us get past the Stone Age. Not when there is nothing but war. Do you understand? The best thing you can do to help us is leave us alone.

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

It is," she wrote, "an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts.

I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again-just for a little while. Then I will do whatever I can to help these people. How could I not-once I met them, once I saw for myself.

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, 'I should be there; I should be helping out.'

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

I have the privilege of working with our in-house design studio, called Samara, and our humanitarian team, called Human. Samara is thinking about the future of Airbnb, and Human is working on ways to leverage our platform outside the cause of day-to-day business.

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take back control of their own lives. But across the world, we see millions of people caught in semi-permanent crises. As each year goes by, they are less and less likely to break free.

No daban tantas explicaciones sobre las bajas iraquíes. El 14 de febrero, Kelly dijo que pensaba que «la cifra es muy elevada por el bombardeo constante». El 28 de febrero, los saudíes hablaban de unos 100.000 muertos iraquíes, mientras que un antiguo analista militar francés, el coronel Jean-Louis Dufour, calculaba que los muertos iraquíes ascendían a 15.000.4 Schwarzkopf hablo sólo de «una cifra muy, muy alta».

gobierno kuwaití se salió con la suya. En cuestión de meses deportó a más de 200.000 palestinos. Otros les seguirían más tarde. La única diferencia era que muchos de ellos viajaron al norte, hacia Iraq, en autobuses de la Cruz Roja que de verdad había fletado dicha organización humanitaria.

Emily Hobhouse