Action Quote by Peter Maurer

The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take…

— Antonio Guterres

I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also confronted with…

— Peter Maurer

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

— Peter Maurer

I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest…

— Angelina Jolie

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only…

— Peter Maurer

We must remain committed to rebuilding communities ravaged by genocide. Survivors deserve a safe and secure pathway home or safe passage elsewhere.

— Nadia Murad

There is never a humanitarian solution for a humanitarian crisis. The solutions for the humanitarian crisis are always political ones.

— Antonio Guterres

While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another…

— Peter Maurer

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

— Paul Ryan

Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the…

— Peter Maurer

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

— Tom Perez

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

— David Miliband