Sentence examples for humanitarian tradition from inspiring English sources

"We didn't know anyone there, but we knew that Geneva was the symbol of the humanitarian tradition," Mr. Huskic said.

Thailand has had to deal with flows of people from neighbouring countries for more than 40 years now and it has stood firm by its humanitarian tradition throughout.

But a growing hostility to refugees in many European countries seems to be taking its toll on the honourable humanitarian tradition of offering them a new home.Keeping Syrian and Iraqi refugees out of Europe, if that remains the goal, will require improving the dire conditions in which many live in makeshift camps in neighbouring countries.

If anything, it's symptomatic of the modern face of Swiss immigration policy, which seems to betray the country's humanitarian tradition.

The situation we encountered in the Alps may seem weird but it's not unique; if anything, it's symptomatic of the modern face of Swiss immigration policy, which seems to betray the country's humanitarian tradition.

Physician participants in these missions see themselves as part of a long-standing humanitarian tradition in medicine of bringing desperately needed medical care to vulnerable communities in developing countries.

Our humanitarian traditions developed over time in response to this.

Strict quotas also would strike at the country's humanitarian traditions by hampering the government's ability to accept refugees, argued Paul Huber, head of the federal refugee office.

"We need to call on all the humanitarian traditions of the continent to find that solution and the willingness to be guided by laws and conventions which themselves were put in place to handle other refugee crises in the past".

So no matter how singular the Speer story, it is ultimately emblematic for Fest of "how easily, given appropriate conditions, people will allow themselves to be mobilized into violence, abandoning the humanitarian traditions they have built up over centuries to protect themselves from each other".

David Miliband has called on the British government to take in its fair share of refugees fleeing the war in Syria and other conflicts, and said continued failure to do so would represent an abandonment of the UK's legal and humanitarian traditions.