Sentence examples for humanitarian background from inspiring English sources

Mr Kouchner's humanitarian background, as co-founder of Médecins sans Frontières and UN boss in Kosovo, dovetails neatly with Mr Sarkozy's keenness on a human-rights element in his foreign policy.

"I don't necessarily believe that the employment of private contractors is a problem, we are talking about the employment of private contractors with sketchy or terrible humanitarian background or track records," Dr. David Borys told me in an interview.

Background: Humanitarian crises are associated with an increase in mental disorders and psychological distress.

Author: Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) Background Mine risk education has been undertaken in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia since 1999 and in the neighbouring Afar region since 2001, primarily by a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Rehabilitation and Development Organisation (RaDO).

It was seen at the time as a defence of humanitarian intervention against the background of Kosovo.

His background is in humanitarian work.

"The people who established the League Against Cruel Sports had a background in the humanitarian movement - animal suffering, welfare of children, prohibition".

That is why special attention was being paid in Washington this week to the words chosen by Mr. Kouchner, the French foreign minister and co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, whose background in the humanitarian world made his remarks about the possibility of war all the more startling.

GENEVA/ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK, 29 July 2011 – A year after devastating monsoon floods hit Pakistan, many of the more than 18 million affected people – almost half of them children –are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives against a background of dwindling humanitarian funding and fear of new monsoon floods.

Joining me on the bus were representatives from two organizations: Syrian Christians for Peace (CFP --a humanitarian organization assisting Syrians of all baCFP --ads - and Tastakel--a women's leadership organization that empowers women to beCFP --aents of peace.

In the background was brewing the worst humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan's history a famine of proportions that would dwarf the hunger crises in Somalia and Ethiopia.