Sentences with phrase «from humanitarian»

We believe that discussing important issues related to the use of weapons systems and learning from each other's national implementation activities provides a significant and real benefit, including from a humanitarian perspective.
The vast majority of people dying in Darfur are from the humanitarian situation, not directly from the conflict.
These numbers do not include local populations in host communities who — themselves suffering from food insecurity and limited access to basic social services and infrastructure — would also benefit from humanitarian interventions under the agency's inclusive support strategy.
This policy document summarises the outcomes of the AWG - LCA 6th session on protecting the health of vulnerable people from the humanitarian consequences of climate change and climate related events.
The founder, Anne Patterson, launched the company to resume the production of a popular solar oven from the humanitarian organization Solar Oven Society (SOS), which had previously supplied more than 20,000 of its clean cooking solutions to people in Haiti, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and other locations in the developing world before its funding ran out in 2013.
Mutual consent based on proper education and factual information (an average of three child - births per woman leads inevitably to population explosion, and that is a mathematical fact) is, I believe, from a humanitarian view, a much better option than activizing centralized population control measures or even highly inefrfective family planning programs.
As an artist, Bourke - White continued to use photography as an instrument to examine social issues from a humanitarian perspective.
At some point, on the news or in documentaries, we've all seen the different applications that drones have, from humanitarian to military.
Our Charity of the Month program means we can support a wide array of different organizations from humanitarian causes to wildlife conservation and pet - centric organizations.
Suppose the state is a theocracy or a military despotism, their virtues, spirit, and discipline are necessarily far removed from humanitarian ends or rational society.
For example, if you are trying to win scholarship funds from a humanitarian organization, you will want to write something that appeals to them.
They will also reflect on what this means from a humanitarian perspective and in contrast to other forms of prejudice that they already know.
The $ 2.3 billion funding gap for education in conflict, which is ten times more than education currently receives from humanitarian aid, urgently needs to be filled.
It has also meant making links between formal and informal sectors, urban and rural livelihoods, coastal and forest livelihoods, private and public interventions, social conflicts, economic thinking, agriculture, fisheries, environment, poverty alleviation, and subjective and objective wellbeing analyses in order to approach things from a humanitarian and educative and inclusive dimension that will be relevant to my immediate contexts which is Africa and the rest of the world.
From this point Issa receives help from humanitarian lawyer Annabel (Rachel McAdams) and reluctant banker Tommy (Willem Dafoe).
The proposed model is highly - flexible - allowing for inclusion of damage information, such as information coming from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team, in the analyses.
The euphoria over the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime was tempered by reliable reports of torture from humanitarian missions in the country and rising concern about the new regimes failure to disband the militias.
Paradoxically, then, providing al - Qaddafi with an immediate exit strategy to a safe haven might be the right choice from a humanitarian perspective.
Dr Idler has co-designed a training module for UN staff, has facilitated UN training in Jordan and has published a policy briefing, circulated to staff from humanitarian agencies, international governments, and the UN.
As discussed in the first article of this series, persons with disabilities have been overwhelmingly excluded from humanitarian aid in different crises worldwide.
The exclusion of persons with disabilities from humanitarian assistance exposes them to protection risks and perpetuates stigma and prejudice.
It ignores the reports - such as are available - from humanitarian groups on the ground.
Talk about the aide that people who are victims of disasters or violence receive from humanitarian groups, and discuss ways that she may help, such as by working with her school to raise money for the victims.
In each section, we will look at the value of these rights from a humanitarian perspective, and then how the right can be misused and abused when divorced from God and the Gospel, and how churches are guilty of this as well.
Signatories include leaders from humanitarian aid groups including World Vision USA, World Relief, Compassion International, Living Water International, Food for the Hungry, as well as denominational leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention, Assemblies of God, Wesleyan Church, Church of Nazarene, the Anglican Church in North America, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the National Association of Evangelicals.
Public clinics for alcoholics are right from the humanitarian and therapeutic standpoints.
Give: Women often carry the greatest burden of caring for their families during war, so they often directly benefit from humanitarian aid.
Very tragic from a humanitarian standpoint, but very interesting from a crypto standpoint.

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In a 60 - second cinema and TV spot (which ran during the Super Bowl), Canadian forces are shown doing everything from jumping from a C - 130 Hercules aircraft to shouting instructions inside a field hospital and handing out humanitarian supplies.
Most recently they have installed a new Z - 8JH heavy rescue helicopter on board Liaoning expanding its role from power projection to humanitarian aid.
He's received the Gary Wright Humanitarian Award, been inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame, and accepted honorary degrees from Saint Mary», McMaster and Mount Allison University's.
«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need,» the statement said.
CHARITY group Dine for Life, which raises money from diners for a range social and humanitarian causes, is taking its Perth fund - raising expertise to the eastern states.
The layout of the spaces we inhabit, from schools to offices to homes, influences the way people live, so Cary has spent most of his career expanding his design practice into humanitarian work.
About five years ago, we saw this amazing interest from entrepreneurs in our humanitarian work.
The humanitarian crisis stemming from the conflict in Syria has sent millions of refugees fleeing the country since 2011.
A Saudi - led military coalition announced Monday it would close all air, land, and sea ports to Yemen, a move it said would lessen the flow of arms from Iran to the Houthi rebels — though it may also worsen a humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
Fun Fact: Says Niño: «While we don't wear white hats, the collective fixer team have lent a helping hand in everything from national elections, Fortune 50 mergers and acquisitions to global humanitarian crises, Oscar - award winning films and even a couple of U.S. Supreme Court cases.
The children of the village received humanitarian aid from the PRT during the U.S. and Romanian's visit to assess security and irrigation in the village.
We need an impartial analysis of how many people have died and are dying from Maria in Puerto Rico so the public fully grasps the magnitude of this humanitarian crisis and our government responds appropriately.»
The stinging criticism came from members of the nonprofit National Nurses United, speaking on Capitol Hill with Democratic members of Congress after a two - week humanitarian mission to Puerto Rico.
Its emergency response team responds to an average of 30 natural disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide each year from earthquakes and cyclones to disease outbreaks and civil conflict.
And the desperate pleas for help that continued Friday from Cruz, as well as other Puerto Ricans in more isolated parts of the country, suggest that far more is needed from the Trump administration's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
The nation doesn't need a leader throwing rhetorical bombs from the luxury of his golf resort at at a mayor stuck in a humanitarian crisis begging for the help her constituents need to survive.
Outside of that 60 day window it's unclear how humanitarian help will make it to the island, where already people are dying from heat and stand at risk from the lack of safe drinking water.
Our board and council includes top experts from several leading funders, humanitarian, and nonprofit organizations.
Diao added that while cash transfers have been used in humanitarian contexts before, this initiative is a significant departure from the status quo because they're giving families transformative amounts of money versus small, subsistence amounts.
On February 20, 2004 the World Council of Churches demanded that Israel halt and reverse construction on the barrier and strongly condemned «violations of human rights and humanitarian consequences» that resulted from the construction of the barrier.
We have acknowledged the humanitarian impact of 9/11/2001 on every anniversery since but most of us still can not possibly understand what the family's that lost loved ones realized and felt on that dreadful day and the days that followed as they hoped and prayed their loved one's would be pulled from ground zero.
«Women are routinely excluded from key decisions, which range from family safety to the design of humanitarian aid delivery and post-conflict nation rebuilding; the concerns of women continue to be marginalized.»
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