Word: humanitarianism
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...long as globalization increases economic activity, climate change will continue. That is why Darfur matters. There is the simple humanitarian imperative - helping refugees - which alone might seem cause enough for action. There is also a moral imperative. If climate change is a root cause of these wars, and the West has caused climate change, then these distant wars become our indirect responsibility. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose economy depends on hydropower from a reservoir that is now depleted by drought, is explicit in this regard, describing climate change as "an act of aggression by the rich against the poor...
...Relief and Development were found guilty of funneling some $12 million to Hamas. A jury convicted the group on 108 criminal counts, including money-laundering--a resounding victory for the Bush Administration in the biggest terrorism-funding case since 9/11. The defendants maintained that Holy Land is a humanitarian organization, and say they will appeal the verdict...
...every marathon Sprague ran, her nonprofit organization—In the Running—raised money for one continent-specific grassroots charity that addresses humanitarian or environmental issues, such as the AIDS epidemic in Africa or the protection of Antarctic ecology...
...Responsibility to Protect [or R2P, a concept of humanitarian intervention] was only adopted by the U.N. in 2005. How much is MONUC feeling its way here? Is MONUC an experiment? R2P is a huge step forward ... But the question remains: How do we actually do it? We have come up against the sharp end of R2P. We can claim that responsibility, but actually doing that in North Kivu, with a collapsing army, a resurgence of ethnic groups - well, that raises fundamental questions. When we make these statements, we have to be careful that we have the means to match...
...have responded with land and air attacks and by halting supplies that were to enter Gaza. Israel has hoped to tighten the screws on Hamas by blocking all but a trickle of aid from reaching Gaza's 1.5 million stricken inhabitants, leading to what U.N. officials describe as a humanitarian crisis. For the past two weeks, the Israeli military has barred foreign journalists from entering the Palestinian territory to report on the siege...