humanitarian
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As part of their humanitarian efforts, Perlmutter and his colleagues go on Western media, such as CNN, to decry the conditions of the Palestinian people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
This has triggered a humanitarian crisis marked by rolling blackouts, the collapse of tourism, agricultural shortages and worsened medical care.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
"These results suggest that uncompensable heat could increasingly drive internal displacement and transboundary climate migration, raising new policy and humanitarian challenges," the study warned.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
No official statement has been released of the talks reportedly focusing on concrete actions to decommission Hamas's weapons - as well as the withdrawal of Israeli troops and humanitarian efforts.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
My mom asks what they were doing in Senegal, and they say that their dad works for a humanitarian aid company and they were helping out during the summer.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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The three countries said the fact that Israel's announcement came on World Humanitarian Day, "while the world honoured the courage and sacrifice of humanitarians, was particularly egregious".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
One project uses AI analysis of anonymised mobile phone data to spot mass-population movements during disasters, determining where people are fleeing, to help humanitarians better tailor their response.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
But thank God we have humanitarians like Jeff and Janine Yass who still believe in lifting them up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
By early January, humanitarians were preparing to expand operations.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
They were even humanitarians; which perhaps accounts for the extent to which they roused against themselves the healthy hatred of humanity.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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