But Russia has frozen strong action, complaining that the West went beyond its humanitarian mandate when it aided the overthrow of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya last year.
But the UNHCR, traditionally responsible for ensuring adherence to international law, is compromised by conflict between its humanitarian mandate and political dynamics on the ground.
A Ford spokesman, Ron Iori, said today that the company viewed the Chamber of Commerce fund as having a broad humanitarian mandate beyond providing money to victims of the Nazis.
The organization denied that it had strayed beyond its humanitarian mandate to locate and clear minefields left over from the 1994-96 war in Chechnya.
"We are beyond frustrated to not be able to reach children who are dying, not be able to fulfill our humanitarian mandate within the worst-hit areas of the Horn drought crisis," said Mrs. Wolff of World Vision, which the Shabab has banned.
We are driven by our humanitarian mandate to help vulnerable people wherever they are, and we will continue to do this, but terrible incidents like the one in Kunduz are prompts to ensure humanitarians are ready and prepared to work in these environments.
The fighting has frustrated the UN's efforts to fulfil its humanitarian mandate, and the world body's special envoy to Syria on Thursday cut short a meeting of the ad hoc committee chaired by Russia and the United States tasked with deescalating the violence so that relief can reach beleaguered civilians.
"We have a humanitarian mandate to prevent harm and suffering without discrimination — gender and gender-based violence fall under that," says Fiji Red Cross Society's Health and Care Coordinator Marica Kepa.
After several attempts in 2008 and 2009, they were able to enter Gaza (whose borders are almost entirely closed) thanks to Mercy Corps, which had access to Gaza through its humanitarian mandate.
"Habibi is the personification of the work of UNICEF and our humanitarian mandate.
