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"The urgency for a resolution must be balanced; the lives of countless individuals are at stake as they risk their safety and well-being in pursuit of a better life."
"The opportunities provided by technology are threefold: strengthening the protection of civilians, supporting the performance of missions, and contributing to the protection of the protectors, the blue helmets."
"We must make peace for the people standing here, for the people living through the nightmare of war, and for the people who are not standing here because they've been killed."
"Aging is our greatest humanitarian challenge."
"The impact of the economic world will be larger, longer-lasting, quantitatively higher, and maybe even higher from a humanitarian perspective than the shooting war."
"No more Israelis in Gaza need to die, no more Palestinians in Gaza need to die."
"The UN Refugee Agency says that's the quickest exodus of refugees this century."
"Dr. Mukwege has devoted his adult life to treating the wounds of women who have been raped. The number of patients, traumatized patients who he has treated is I think over 50,000."
"A lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it's got to stop."
"The only sustainable mission throughout your whole existence is to improve lives."
"Poland has thrown its doors open to Ukrainian refugees literally by the millions."
"We're going to have loads of spare doses, well over 200 million, which are going to be donated to poor countries."
"I just want the same for everyone in the world now as well."
"It's not a surge, it's a humanitarian crisis."
"Cases that fall in the highest priority category for non-immigrant visa processing typically involve extreme humanitarian circumstances."
"Paris and Prince accepted a humanitarian award on behalf of their dad."
"Every single time you think about your brothers and sisters from the Uyghurs who are being massacred in these internment camps in numbers that we don't even know, Allah knows who they are."
"You become more passionate about this humanitarian theme in your life, how can you use your knowledge, your wisdom to help other people?"
"Our members, friends, and our church are delivering our largest ever humanitarian response with 1031 COVID-19 response projects in 151 countries."
"Hungry children need food. With one humanitarian partner, we're delivering 30 million meals to school children in non-developing countries."
"Our church provides humanitarian assistance without regard to race, religious affiliation, or nationality."
"Their houses are destroyed, Ukraine is suffering now. Please stop the war."
"World Central Kitchen has served more than 10 million meals so far."
"The need is in those towns, in those cities, in those areas that have been under russian occupation."
"We need to be next to the people that need us the most."
"She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1979, and asked that the cost of the laureates’ banquet be donated to the poor in India instead."
"The only way to stop migration humanely is to develop the places they are migrating from."
"This is both a humanitarian crisis and an economic crisis."
"This is a massive humanitarian catastrophe that needs to be stopped by not guaranteeing that the Russians get to keep the land that they've taken and continue to brutalize this population in perpetuity."
"These hero rats have already helped clear 13,000 landmines from Mozambique."
"These are human beings, y'all. As of last month, the number of families encountered is the highest since January 2019."
"Every year the humanitarian arm of the church provides supplies for disaster relief to countless people around the world."
"Too often the world has failed to prevent the killing of innocents on a massive scale."
"Surely, bringing food to the starving masses, bringing crops to barren areas of the world, and averting famine, death, and disease is a lofty ambition… isn't it?"
"Heal the world, make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race."
"This trauma that they would have experienced and the humanitarian crisis that they're in has been really one that affects them differently." - Miss Trinidad and Tobago
"Make the world your debtor by serving humanity."
"If you heal one life, it's as if you've saved the entire world."
"It is immoral. There are children out there, there are people who have nowhere to go. We need to help people."
"Humanitarians rejoice! Libra has a good chance of helping hundreds of millions of people avoid middlemen fees."
"It's not enough to give people what they need to survive; you have to give them what they need to live."
"Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country."
"The women and children at the border are not a security threat, they are a humanitarian challenge."
"This person truly cares about people, about animals, about the planet."
"Starvation should never happen and the famine does not have to happen."
"I'm helping children drink water, give me a break!"
"Success is not a given; we must work on policies to serve humanity."
"Why would it be such a bad idea to use it to help people?"
"We want to let good people come to this country, legitimate Asylum Seekers."
"What matters is what the Russians are doing to the Ukrainian people."
"We don't need more jerks right now, we need a little humanitarian effort."
"We're pro human beings and very much anti-genocide."
"Whatever you want to do in life, you want to benefit humanity in some way."
"Israel was one of the first countries to offer help...Israel sent rescue teams...not bad for a country that is different in Religion...we had over 400 people."
"Soothe it with kindness. You are a humanitarian made of love and you are able to share that energy with others."
"You can't work here without being cognizant of the fact that they're people here, they're suffering here, there's dead bodies here." - Ken Holden, Commissioner
"Dr. Yaakov Gradinar, together with Prosthetics for Ukrainians, is helping more and more Ukrainian Defenders learn to walk again."
"If everything I have done saves one life I am happy."
"Literally save a life in the easiest way possible."
"Her project felt very human in the way that she was trying to reach other people's lives."
"Near Automata wants to be analyzed so badly, and it makes Near Automata one of the most humanitarian things I've ever seen."
"The people here may need the help but what they want is something else."
"A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Afghanistan."
"Auri achieves what was unthinkable just a few years earlier; he rescues almost all of the Ethiopian Jews."
"The rescue of the Ethiopian Jews is one of the great humanitarian acts of the 20th century."
"It's not republican versus democrat, it's a humanitarian crisis."
"I back people not dying... I'll stop it in one day."
"We need to honor our values and create a safe, transparent, and organized way for people to apply for asylum."
"This plan solves the immediate crisis and it is a horrible crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis like we rarely see in our country."
"Harry and Meghan are hard-working individuals who care about humanity."
"The humanitarian crisis at the border is showing no signs of slowing."
"The benefits are in terms of peace for people throughout the world."
"Elon Musk sending Starlink terminals so Russia can't shut down the internet? That's legendary."
"The sanctions have turned a crisis into a humanitarian catastrophe."
"...you are a humanitarian made of love and you are able to share that energy with others."
"This is literally going to save lives."
"War is a tragedy and there is no such thing as a war that does not result in a humanitarian crisis."
"The Berlin airlift would come to an end after 15 months, 277,000 flights spanning 92,000 miles, and delivering 2.3 million tons of Aid."
"The humanitarian situation in the Congo continues to deteriorate to this very day with ongoing violent conflicts preventing people from returning home."
"It's crazy to say because we're on an Ivy campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking for."
"No human being should be sleeping on the streets at all in this country, especially when it's cold."
"Does not seek to encourage or discourage migration but rather to contribute to mitigating the vulnerability factors of this population during the migratory route."
"Despite having had her career for this long, Lois still travels around the world helping people and is dedicated to making the world a much safer and better place through her art."
"It's an inhumane policy, it's a failed policy that is helping neither Palestinians nor Israelis."
"Real humanitarian. Would Keaton and Affleck? Abso freaking lutely Affleck."
"Why is it more being done to help the people of Haiti?"
"This wasn't for recreation or a toy. This was the thing to stop the hungry child from crying."
"It's a humanitarian crisis. That's not just me saying that, that's the UN reporters."
"We reaffirm our commitment to keep strengthening the peacekeeping that saves lives around the world."
"Y'all could really be the type that could be true humanitarians always volunteering always trying to donate things donate blood donate money just wants to be of acts of service to the collective consciousness to the world to everybody around you to your community."
"...pray that he changes you and your reaction to it because he might not be able not that he can't but like he might not change your circumstance but he can change the way that you're looking at it he can give you peace through it."
"My mother showed me the whole humanitarian part about life."
"The Relief Society is leading out in the church's Global humanitarian initiative to address the needs of women and children."
"You care, you really care. And it's not just people, I feel like you're just a very humanitarian."
"Their work is very humanitarian or focused on helping people."
"Beyond his entertainment career, he will always be remembered for his humanitarian work and his dedication to making the world a better place."
"Your gift today will provide families in the Dera district with clean water, health and hygiene training, hand washing stations, and lifesaving latrines."
"Christmas is a time when something inside of most people rises up with a humanitarian instinct."
"Be the one that brings people together. You are the humanitarian."
"By entering for a chance to win, you will support charities like Give Power who help 2.2 billion people around the world get safely managed drinking water, food security, and light."
"Perfectly straightforward and simple forms of humanitarian intervention could have a massive effect and cost virtually nothing."
"In recognition of her unwavering dedication to humanitarian causes and the Arts, Caroline was appointed as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 2003."
"It's powerful... how Pius the 12th and the Catholic Church saved a half a million Jews."
"This isn't Humane and start giving funding where funding is needed."
"Your donations will be going towards helping them fill their aid trucks with food with water with medical supplies with shelter."
"I'm sitting there tonight, and I'm in Poland. They're just taking Ukrainians in and bringing them into their homes because there's no shelter, there's nothing set up for them."
"We are donating through UNICEF to Ukraine."
"Saved about a billion lives through the increase in agriculture productivity he made possible."
"We're doing this for humanitarian purposes."
"The entire refugee convention doesn't care who started what, who's to blame."
"The humanitarian program helped people who were in prison or in service for more than three years."
"He is considered the father of the green revolution who may have saved as many as 2 billion people from starvation."
"Recognizing him as one of the individuals with organizations that have made outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes around the world."
"Humanitarian law and human rights law are both parts of international law."
"Everybody deserves to have good clean water and it would just help so many people."
"The Embassy of the Displaced serves as a design for survival laboratory, a visual archive of the refugees' road journey, and an institution on the side of the displaced, a land for the landless."
"Princess Diana's compassion and dedication to various causes earned her the admiration of many."
"Reflecting on a great man, a man of peace, a humanitarian of the highest regard."
"President Roosevelt has appealed to the European powers... they should refrain from bombing civilians and unfortified towns."
"We remain deeply concerned by what is happening to the Rohingya; it's a major humanitarian crisis."
"We will work night and day to get more aid to those who desperately need it."
"He was a great humanitarian and he tried to hide it."
"We were asked by the Sierra Leone government to lead or to support them in their response; we mobilized a hospital ship, we mobilized military on the ground to build hospitals and diagnosis and treatment centers."
"We have a human responsibility to all the people in Gaza."
"We had special forces going in there for all the right reasons, humanitarian reasons."
"The world mourns a great humanitarian."
"The huge number of civilian casualties in Gaza is deeply damaging to the reputation of Israel itself."
"Senator Padme Amidala arrives on Scipio in order to request a loan for refugees who are escaping the horrors of the Clone Wars."
"We are talking about the worst crisis on the planet currently but unfortunately is receiving very little attention."
"The humanitarian crisis at the border demands action."
"We are having ongoing internal discussions about how we can play the most effective role in supporting the large number of refugees who are coming out of Ukraine."
"Joe is a dedicated humanitarian; she fought for gender equality at home and in developing countries."
"I love the idea of doing some humanitarian type photography."
"He recently returned from Madesu, the most dangerous city on Earth, where he shadowed the heroic Al-Mmud woman on their quest to clean up the streets and restore humanity to their war-torn country."
"We want to go to the places the forgotten places, we want to go to the hungry, to the poor, to the sick."
"We hope that viewers would consider donating to this noble cause and help with the humanitarian situation in Ukraine."
"If you're an Aquarian, you are an Innovative Liberator, a true humanitarian."
"Hans Minkler, whose whole life was dedicated to the preservation and the saving of human life."
"Team Rubicon is a veteran-led humanitarian organization that serves global communities before, during, and after disasters and crises."
"Spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift."
"We have a situation where we have a problem that has significance for us in terms of security and our humanitarian obligations."
"Wherever and whenever people need help, the Red Cross answers the call."
"We don't want to see any more bloodshed; we don't want to see any more bombing from our pictures that we're seeing."
"We can end hunger in our lifetime."
"Resettling especially the refugees, women and children... should be a priority."
"It's our responsibility to help them in any little way that we can; it's important also because it's about saving the peace of the entire world."
"These citizens are starving. I'm going to fix this."
"The public good has to do with feeding the hungry and giving shelter to those who don't have shelter and giving education to people."
"Kobo Toolbox is totally free and it's for the humanitarian organizations and development sector to use this tool and obtain clean data."
"We need to upsurge the humanitarian aid."
"Number one priority is safety of refugees."
"The irony is that wars of humanitarian intervention should ease that tension."
"No child should ever go to bed hungry, everyone should have world-class healthcare, and we should have peace in the world."
"You have to bury the dead... clothe the naked... help the sick and the infirm... visit those in prison... feed the hungry... offer shelter to pilgrims... the thirsty must be given something to drink."
"In the month of March and April this year, all our commission is going to be donated to the British Red Cross in aid of their Ukrainian humanitarian appeal."
"Abdu'l-Bahá's love for his fellow men never wavered; in Akká, he became known as the father of the poor."
"Since 2010, I've been doing water projects around the world."
"Although my ship is equipped to carry 12 passengers, we took more than 900 men, women, and children back to their families and friends in Florida."
"I saved lives, maybe a few decades from now there'd be entire villages in sub-Saharan Africa singing songs of praise over how much water I saved."
"I like to tie my runs in with humanitarian work."
"I don't think concentration camps or feeding hungry kids should even be political debates, more humanitarian ones."
"It's very important for the international community to work towards a no-fly zone to save those people who are now suffering."
"We have all seen the images of people scrambling to escape Afghanistan, but not seen nearly so much, a Herculean effort by former service members, diplomats and private citizens to help Afghans especially leave the country."
"We will continue to support the Afghan people. We will lead with our diplomacy, our international influence, and our humanitarian aid."
"I've always been involved in the alleviation of suffering."
"While everybody else is taking life, I'm gonna be saving it."
"If we don't prepare and act now... the outcome could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe."
"Border Patrol's job isn't just to apprehend and detain migrants, it's also to save them."
"These are concrete steps that we have undertaken to save lives and leave no one behind."
"We together can stand up and speak out and give witness and be on that frontline of humanitarian support."
"Israel must do everything it can to protect civilians, to ensure that humanitarian assistance flows into Gaza."
"We have opened several centers to welcome the refugees who are returning from exile."
"It is vitally important to provide urgent humanitarian aid to all those civilians who are in dire need."
"If kids are dying, there's problems with infrastructure, clean water, sanitation, food supplies."
"When with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby making our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act."
"I've just seen so much pain and so much suffering that I want to do what I can to wipe some of it away."
"He loved to get on the back of an elephant and go into the jungle, and pulled teeth for people, and to do, sort of, simple medical work."
"We don't want to see any humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip and it is important that Aid reach the civilians who need it."
"Upon his graduation, Robert was the recipient of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan award, presented as recognition for excellence of character and service to humanity."
"He instinctively understood the need to improve living standards around the world."
"It's a crisis and a humanitarian crisis."
"This is what happens when people around the world come together for a cause for other people."
"Goldberg stands as a shining example of artistic excellence and humanitarian commitment."
"The situation in Gaza has to change; humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp."
"Let's make a planet in which nobody is starving."
"We are facing the greatest humanitarian crisis in history."
"I've been offered a job with Doctors Without Borders."
"It's a non-profit with one simple humanitarian mission to identify John and Jane Does using investigative genetic genealogy."
"It was used as an underground railroad, and after the battle, it was also used as a hospital to take care of North and South."
"I think we have enough resources and technological advancements to a point where we literally could save these people."
"We are now facing a humanitarian crisis of extraordinary proportions."
"I think my work with the Chernobyl affected areas is really close to my heart."
"By coming you can help the people, you can help the local people, you can help even the refugees themselves."
"On the days he didn't have people to take around to Poland, he would drive supplies to the Ukrainian border."
"I'm going there to try to help out as many people as I can, hopefully the ones that are most in need."
"This measure is a defensive platform that saves lives; it is a humanitarian step that should be regarded for what it is: essential to our alliance, our relationship, and our bond with Israel."
"My main purpose here is to help out the people in need."
"This airplane being here is going to save people's lives."
"Fantastic humanitarian but also a fantastic singer-songwriter, performer, and storyteller as well."
"He portrayed a humanitarian quality I could see it and hear it."