Word: humanitarianism
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...fourth suspect, Sin Dorn, 52, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison for having assisted in the abduction of Howes and Houn, who were conducting a humanitarian de-mining mission for the UK-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG) when they were taken hostage. A fifth defendant in the case was found not guilty...
...case highlights the ongoing need for the protection of humanitarian workers, McGrath added. "There are people like Chris and Hourth working all over the world trying to help victims of disaster and conflict," he said. "It is simply unacceptable for the safety of such workers to be compromised or for them to become targets themselves...
Professor Alex de Waal, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, stressed the danger in the loss of international interest in Southern Sudan. He stated that internationalism is a necessary facilitator, although the solution must come from the Sudanese people...
Jennifer Leaning, the co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, addressed the hesitancy of many Southern Sudanese to return home without well-defined land rights, community, and a sense of future...
...between the West and Russia in the Balkans and Caucasus. "It was not a good deal. We should have gone all the way," says a U.S. diplomat familiar with the compromise. Ahtisaari has also been criticized for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which he did on humanitarian grounds...