You didn't need a humanitarian motive to stop malaria.

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The humanitarian groups also don't like that the report ranks countries based on the onerousness of business taxation.

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Moreover, even if the speculation proves to be valid and the benefits of some genetically engineered crops do decline over time, that doesn't diminish the prodigious gains--humanitarian, economic and environmental--that will already have accrued.

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Cruz and other sole providers with dependents are typically released on humanitarian grounds, but they can't work while they await their deportation hearings, putting them at the mercy of church leaders and local officials.

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"With preparation and humanitarian aid people can cope with drought but they can't cope with drought and conflict, " shadow international development secretary Harriet Harman said.

BBC: Minister calls for more Horn of Africa aid

Some of the 50 Senate Democrats who voted in favor of cloture in support of the original DREAM Act may have been moved by the humanitarian argument that young people brought here by their parents shouldn't be forced to languish in the world of the undocumented.

CNN: GOP version of Dream Act holds promise

Commissioner Georgieva's plan is to try to push as much humanitarian aid as possible inside Somalia, so that families fleeing "don't have to cross into Ethiopia or Kenya and make refugee problems for the future".

BBC: Solving Somalia's aid conundrum

Japan's constitution doesn't allow troops to take part in combat, so they have been working in southern Iraq on humanitarian missions.

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"If we don't find a solution... then the inevitable consequence is more people will die, more needless humanitarian suffering will occur and more displacement into South Sudan and Ethiopia, " he warned.

BBC: Humanitarian crisis in Sudan south gets worse, says UN