It called the three "brave hearts without medals, humanitarians without parades and heroes without statues".
If the European Union's national governments want to help one another in a crisis, they should unilaterally provide humanitarian aid, without conditionality and without redemption.
In Yemen, for example, women are the humanitarian interveners without whom communities simply would not survive.
Abderrahim Jamai, the group's president, called Morocco's overcrowded prisons "a humanitarian scandal without precedent".
For Scowcroft, the principle is clear: by pragmatic standards, a humanitarian intervention without a strategic rationale is a mistake.
Egypt accepted the 48 Sudanese on humanitarian grounds, without committing to take more, the official said.
Mr Annan has been at pains to point out that the UN can do little beyond emergency humanitarian relief without fresh authorisation from the Security Council.
Some argue that international law provides for a "responsibility to protect" that allows states to intervene during humanitarian disasters, without Security Council authorization.
"CAR can't break the decades-long cycle of violence and humanitarian need without serious investment in strengthening governance and security," the IRC says.
