Sentence examples for urgent humanitarian needs from inspiring English sources

Those affected by the hurricane have many urgent humanitarian needs, with food and clean water being the most urgent.

The United States calls on all concerned to address the urgent humanitarian needs of the innocent people of Gaza".

"Perhaps a million more have urgent humanitarian needs due to the widening impact of the crisis on the economy and people's livelihoods".

The UN and associated agencies appealed for $1.16bn£761m1m) in 2013 to address what they called urgent humanitarian needs – the largest such appeal in the world after Somalia.

Steps have also been taken to lift the embargoes on oil and civilian flights and to meet urgent humanitarian needs in Yugoslavia.

The resulting resolution should protect Iraqi control of oil resources and guarantee that an adequate share of oil revenue goes to meet urgent humanitarian needs.

"There was an urgent humanitarian need to neutralise the Sri Lankan military's attacks on civilian targets," he said.

This exploitation of an urgent humanitarian need to promote more coal-burning in poor countries is extremely misleading.

Writing in the Guardian on Thursday, the pair said that as investors have grown increasingly worried about coal assets being overvalued, coal's industrial masters and political friends have embarked on a desperate fightback based on tenuous arguments and exploits an urgent humanitarian need.

Downing Street said there would be no action in Syria without a Commons vote unless there is an urgent humanitarian need to do so.

The prime minister said he would not extend "pre-meditated" military action in Syria without a Commons vote but added that he reserved the right to act if there was an urgent humanitarian need to do so.