"Places like Ciudad Juárez, Medellín and Port au Prince … are becoming synonymous with a new kind of fragility with severe humanitarian implications".
The children's jingle "It's a Small World After All" doesn't have only humanitarian implications anymore.
"The humanitarian implications of the continued instability in the sub-region cannot be underestimated," Mr. Annan told the West African group today.
The current influx of refugees into Greece has major humanitarian implications but it also poses a direct threat to the European Union.
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa — a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.
"The government of Pakistan has consistently maintained that drone strikes are counterproductive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights and humanitarian implications," the statement read.
At an emergency meeting on Thursday in Harare, the capital, United Nations agencies and aid groups agreed to protest the suspension and issue a statement about its humanitarian implications, according to the minutes of the meeting.
Like the American-led air campaign in Kosovo, the bombardment of Afghanistan has raised extensive debate, some of it within the military, on the humanitarian implications of using unopposed air power.
It said: "The government of Pakistan has consistently maintained that the drone strikes are counterproductive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives, have human rights and humanitarian implications and violate the principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and international law".
In the wake of the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and the resulting renewed debate on gun control in the United States, The Stone will publish a series of essays this week that examine the ethical, social and humanitarian implications of the use, possession and regulation of weapons.
