Sentence examples for modern humanitarian from inspiring English sources
Where Kouchner led with Doctors Without Borders, all modern humanitarian agencies now follow.
It would be ungracious to recall the Geneva conventions, the foundation of modern humanitarian law: they bar "the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognised as indispensable by civilised peoples".
As we observed in this article that even though big data can provide the answers to the most important questions facing modern humanitarian response, reaping the full benefit of big crisis data requires work on many different fronts.
It would be ungracious to recall the Geneva Conventions, the foundation of modern humanitarian law: they bar "the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples".
Does the modern humanitarian-aid industry help create the kind of misery it is supposed to redress?
No one equates these with modern benign humanitarian Christian values.
In 1945, when world leaders boldly committed to save future generations from the scourge of war, their pledge led to the foundation of the United Nations and to modern international humanitarian law.
The sensitivity and high polarization of that domain stems from the fact that it is used as one of the instruments of modern warfare – alike humanitarian intervention.
He died too early (1872) to see another landmark en route to barbarism: modern European imperialism, whose humanitarian rhetoric was, like one of its representatives, Conrad's Kurtz, "hollow at the core".
It was further argued that modern norms such as humanitarian intervention, for example, are not necessarily superior to existing norms nor do they suggest a transition to a cosmopolitan system as predicted by Beck.
King writes that "although often characterized as an humanitarian activity, modern public health as practiced in the United States and other Western industrialized nations has long been associated with the needs of national security and international commerce" (117, p. 763).
