Sentence examples for humanitarian exchanges from inspiring English sources

Through their official city-to-city relationships, these volunteer associations promote people-to-people diplomacy and encourage citizens to develop mutual trust and understanding through commercial, cultural, educational, and humanitarian exchanges.

Cultural, educational and humanitarian exchanges continue to be Sister Cities International's hallmarks, but a new area is increasingly capturing the imagination of our business and elected officials, that of commercial diplomacy.

This work will cover integrating geospatial data and our data standards work (known as the humanitarian exchange language) into HDX".

With the 18,000-strong FARC, he has admitted that he would like some kind of humanitarian exchange to free the guerrillas' kidnap victims.

Since 2002 the government has held eight negotiation sessions with the ELN guerrilla group and presented four proposals for a humanitarian exchange of those kidnapped by the FARC.

French diplomats insist they merely want to "facilitate" a "humanitarian exchange", and that they are not negotiating directly with the FARC, which is listed by Europe and the United States as a terrorist organisation.

Now, Ms Betancourt's celebrity status has added to pressure on President Álvaro Uribe to negotiate a "humanitarian exchange" with the FARC.In all, the FARC are thought to hold several hundred hostages, most of whom it tries to ransom.

As Clea Kahn and Elena Lucchi from the Médecins Sans Frontières operational centre in Amsterdam have argued in Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, local procurement can risk neutrality, especially in conflict zones where opposing sides control vital goods and services.

Rightly, Mr Uribe sees a "humanitarian exchange" (the Orwellian term of its promoters) of Ms Betancourt and other hostages for guerrilla prisoners as a recipe for more kidnappings.Checking over-mighty executivesYet Colombia would still be rash to allow Mr Uribe's re-election as long as its democracy remains unconsolidated.

Grey literature was obtained from different web sites such as WHO, MSH, MSF, CfBT Education Trust, USAID, DFID, UNSW, World Bank and Humanitarian Exchange.

Six months later, Telford is now in charge of HDX – the humanitarian data exchange.