Sentence examples for respected humanitarian from inspiring English sources

A widely respected humanitarian and social activist died peacefully in her home in Greenwich, CT on October 9, 2007, comforted by family and friends.

The report, due out tomorrow from Martyrs Without Borders, the respected humanitarian agency, says these include being made to listen to 'Purimspiel' klezmer music twenty-four hours a day and being forced to watch the Barbra Streisand movie 'Yentl' while immersed up to the neck in chicken soup.

Having died in 1873 after spending 30 years working on expeditions in Africa, Livingstone remains a deeply respected humanitarian figure in many of the regions that he visited, having tried to provide an alternative to the slave trade for the continent.

For example Ms. Taymor, the Tony Award-winning director of "The Lion King" and an admired experimental artist in theater and film, could come off during testimony as a difficult person, and Bono, a respected humanitarian on issues like AIDS and African debt relief, could be portrayed as a dilettante for whom the Edge, the relatively low-profile guitarist of U2, has to pick up the slack.

The friend, who also happened to be a respected humanitarian and activist told him: "I love all those elements, but what I see is a macabre portrait of America".

Meanwhile, poorer countries in regions that host the great majority of the world's refugees are asking why they are expected to respect humanitarian standards and refugee law when wealthy Europe has chosen not to".

MSF has been bitterly critical of the international community's failure to respect humanitarian law as its hospitals, staff and patients in warzones have been repeatedly targeted over the past two years.

"We are calling on all parties to the conflict to respect humanitarian law".

In a statement, Thein Sein's office said Friday the amnesty was designed to "respect humanitarian grounds" and allow those freed to "assist in national building".

It called on all parties "to respect humanitarian principles and to allow humanitarian personnel timely and unfettered access to the affected civilian populations," said Germany's ambassador, Peter Wittig, this month's rotating Council president.

We call on all parties to respect humanitarian principles.