Sentence examples for humanitarian tragedies from inspiring English sources

The case of Sri Lanka underscores how the UN struggles to learn from humanitarian tragedies.

All humanitarian tragedies — Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur — are also power struggles between tribes, governments and insurgents.

Though ready to help mitigate humanitarian tragedies there, they know that when you "win" one of these countries in today's geopolitical game, all you win is a bill.

Reporters go to war to document the human and humanitarian tragedies that otherwise would go largely unnoticed or misunderstood: concealed by the governments that commit them, eclipsed by the battles that perpetuate them, too complex to carry cable-news appeal.

The conflict has led to one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of our generation.

You watched -- and even turned a blind eye -- as your governments violently intervened throughout the world and selfishly, fearfully, and hatefully supplied weapons, technology, and the means to miserably kill, eradicate, and create humanitarian tragedies across the globe on an unparalleled scale.

Mr. Annan called Liberia "a humanitarian tragedy".

It's a colossal humanitarian tragedy.

Too many global players in this murderous humanitarian tragedy.

A humanitarian tragedy of devastating proportions is unfolding.

The humanitarian tragedy is also worsening by the day.