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Discover LudwigThe phrase "humanitarian failures" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe situations where humanitarian efforts have not succeeded or have fallen short. Example: "The report highlighted several humanitarian failures in the response to the natural disaster, emphasizing the need for better planning and resources."
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The article tics off our decade of humanitarian failures in the 1990s: Somalia, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Kosovo — "unlawful because it was not U.N. authorized".
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The only alternative I can discern is no bill at all — a political, substantive, and humanitarian failure that would reverberate for a generation.
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But, over all, I'd say that there are more successful humanitarian interventions than failures.
Afghanistan isn't strategically important enough to justify the West's current level of military and humanitarian investment — and failure there is inevitable unless we reverse course.
In its last days the Red Road has been more than an eyesore of a failed housing scheme; it's been a humanitarian disaster in its failure to house human beings, and a PR disaster for a city council whose best solution was mass destruction for entertainment.
ISIL's rise is both a geopolitical failure and humanitarian disaster.
You would want to take this course if you have a professional, personal, or academic interest in first-hand accounts about what creates success and failure during humanitarian responses.
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