Sentence examples for humanitarian justification from inspiring English sources

The plight of the Yazidis, a sect persecuted by Isis as "polytheists", the kidnapping of hundreds of Yazidi women, and the flight of the Christians have given a humanitarian justification for President Obama's authorisation of military action which might otherwise be unpopular in the US.

If life sentences our alternative to the death penalty are seen to more suffering than death itself our entire humanitarian justification falls away.

In a briefing with reporters on Friday, however, Obama's chief ambassador to the region, Richard Holbrooke, offered a humanitarian justification for the administration's approach.

"This act of killing innocent children does not have Islamic and humanitarian justifications".

Ms. Pham, an assistant professor of art history and Asian-American studies at Cornell University, argues that the ability to express oneself through dress could be starkly represented as a symbol of democracy in comparison with the burqa, which was denounced as an example of Taliban repression and invoked when government officials listed the humanitarian justifications for the war in Afghanistan.

Nor do I think much of the so-called "responsibility to protect" as a justification for humanitarian intervention, not least because the evidence that such interventions actually save lives in the aggregate is relatively weak: They're just as likely to embolden outgunned rebellions and accelerate attacks on civilians by the government being targeted.

It's sadly clear that in the era of "humanitarian intervention", there is some justification for this nervousness, as the human rights agenda has been degraded by its use as rhetorical support for US and UK foreign policy aims.

The government has published a two-page note explaining why it thinks the doctrine of humanitarian intervention could provide legal justification for military action against Syria in the absence of a United Nations security council resolution.

As Tesón suggests, just cause (e.g., self-defense) is a necessary but not sufficient justification for armed humanitarian intervention, which "may be impermissible because of its bad consequences" (Tesón 2014, p. 73).

"There is no justification for attacks on humanitarian personnel, equipment or other assets – this only harms ordinary men, women and children in Darfur".

There is no justification for "incremental changes" where humanitarian needs are concerned.