Sergei Lavrov Quotes

To respond to people's needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.

We happen to be living in an era when, in consequence of human gullibility and fallibility, the world has been overtaken by panic and distress such as private initiative alone cannot cope with. To an extent that could previously never have been expected the cities, the states, and the central government have been compelled to undertake to provide relief where voluntary agencies have been unequal to the task.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take back control of their own lives. But across the world, we see millions of people caught in semi-permanent crises. As each year goes by, they are less and less likely to break free.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

It's clear that means testing can direct limited resources to the elderly in need and achieve better results in poverty alleviation.

European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes treat each other.

We should stand up for those who can't protect themselves. Support kids and families who can't support themselves.

The Gujarat model laced with the Godhra stink is a model of hatred that has taken 2,000 lives, while the Congress model has given 83 flagship programmes and scores of people living below the poverty line have been brought under the Food Security Act.

I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.

We all need to be a part of the fight against injustice, insecurity and irresponsibility towards children and the world.

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.

We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have agreed and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the covenants of Human Rights and that includes the right to food, the right to water, the right to housing and the right to education.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.