Sentence examples for humanitarian assignments from inspiring English sources

Globally minded companies such as IBM use international humanitarian assignments in emerging countries as leadership-development opportunities.

The question of how to reorganize the armed forces should be turned on its head: instead of making the military better at humanitarian assignments (in Iraq, Afghanistan and perhaps Liberia), humanitarian groups should strive to become more comfortable in military situations.

They accuse the Dutch of negligence saying "they had a humanitarian assignment, but acted contrary to their instructions".

Relations were also strained last year when Tajik officials impounded two Russian cargo planes which were returning from Afghanistan via Tajik territory after a humanitarian aid assignment.

Humanitarian missions and peacekeeping assignments ran forces ragged.

The brigade's Headquarters Company managed the engineer battalions but it also undertook its own missions, including humanitarian missions and public affairs assignments.

In return, this helps to retain humanitarian workers beyond their early assignments.

Assignments included emergencies/complex humanitarian crises, and longer term medical and public health or development projects.

The young woman — I will call her Carole — had been in Chad for two months, on her second foreign assignment for the humanitarian organization.

The young woman—I will call her Carole had been in Chad for two months, on her second foreign assignment for the humanitarian organization.

The hunger strikes last summer ended with a promise by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to review their SHU assignment policy and to consider humanitarian changes in regime, such as permitting weather-appropriate hats.