The Ebola crisis has brutally exposed the "age-old failures" of the humanitarian aid system with the World Health Organisation and governments repeating the mistakes of past public health emergencies, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said.
"The blatant violations of international humanitarian and human rights law have been pointed out very clearly by the UN's commissioner for human rights," Amos told the Guardian during a visit to Tokyo, where she was attending a conference on improving responses to humanitarian crises in the Asia-Pacific.
So, if we are going to be tough on border protection to avoid people drowning at sea, we also need to be compassionate by increasing the humanitarian refugee intake.
Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, said it was "incomprehensible" why Australia was so quick to respond to the crisis in Iraq but so slow to respond to another humanitarian disaster in west Africa.
The way he deals with the inevitable rumours about his sexuality ("Who does it hurt if someone thinks I'm gay"?) is wonderfully beguiling, and that's before we've even started on his humanitarian work in Darfur and Haiti, not to mention his friendship with President Obama, recently in the news following Clooney's bust-up with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.
The businessman, who in previous years has been critical of the Kremlin and who owns part of Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's only independent newspapers, says that "now is not the time for criticism" and has come out in support of Russia's acts in Crimea, suggesting they could be viewed as a "pre-emptive humanitarian intervention".
Armed incursions from Darfur are frequent across the porous border, endangering humanitarian convoys on the 11-hour drive from the nearest gravel road.
Schulze says: "All sorts of things had become clearer by the end of 1945, as a result of the Nuremberg trials, that the film-makers hadn't known in the summer – and so the whole humanitarian argument of the film could have been undermined".
On humanitarian grounds they should not close the door on people who are desperate," she said.
Ben Parker, chief executive, Irin, London, UK, @benparker140 Ben co-founded the independent humanitarian news service, Irin.
"There've been two loads of humanitarian aid, one an eight-tonner, the other a six.
