Sentence examples for humanitarian steps from inspiring English sources

Their dismantling, along with humanitarian steps that he offered -- removing closures and curfews on Palestinians and reducing the number of roadblocks in the occupied areas -- are vital.

"At this moment we are talking on diplomatic and humanitarian steps to be taken, but for other scenarios we hope that those things will not be needed, but we need to think about contingencies as well".

The opposition High Negotiations Committee insisted on a number of humanitarian steps – including a halt to aerial bombing, relief to besieged areas and the release of detainees – before negotiations could begin.

Nonetheless, advocating a new vision for climate justice--and taking bold humanitarian steps now to address the suffering climate change will cause--would, in a vast understatement, appear to be the least we can do.

Obama has been very specific about the means to achieve political reconciliation as well as the economic and humanitarian steps he would take to avert a worst-case scenario in Iraq and to build the kind of political consensus that's essential to end the conflict.

The most pragmatic and humanitarian step the Obama Administration can take to promote stability during North Korea's political transition is to deliver needed food to the country's disenfranchised population — and as soon as is practical.

"It's a humanitarian step, but it doesn't get at the root of our foreign policy problem with Cuba because we don't have full contact," said Philip Peters, a Cuba specialist and vice president at the Lexington Institute, a policy research center.

I think that the humanitarian, protective steps currently being taken are more or less unavoidable if we're not to see complete genocidal breakdown".

"We are not talking about that here, we are simply talking about a humanitarian action, stepping up what we are doing in order to support this community trapped on the mountain".

At the Security Council on March 21st, Russia shifted firmly to the side of Mr Assad's detractors, endorsing a unanimous, albeit-non-binding statement that demands a swift end to the fighting and access for humanitarian aid, threatening "further steps" if Syria fails to comply.

Traditionally peace has been approached in sequential and separate steps: first humanitarian rescue; then securing a ceasefire and sending in peacekeepers; next creating a new governing system; and finally investing in economic, social and environmental development.