Ms Sauerbrey said the US government was keen to resolve the protracted refugee situation on humanitarian grounds.
Focusing resources and policy on poverty would be worthwhile simply on humanitarian grounds.
The United Nations has urged Bahrain to consider transferring the detainee, who holds Danish citizenship, to Denmark on humanitarian grounds.
Mr Mutharika, who has in the past dismissed homosexuality as alien, said he had set them free on humanitarian grounds.
The Danish ambassador also renewed his call for Mr Khawaja, who also has Danish citizenship, to be transferred to Denmark on humanitarian grounds.
Other countries, notably Sweden, the Netherlands and Canada, have faced up to similar problems by means of accelerated reviews, with cases judged sympathetically on humanitarian grounds.
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The U.S. State Department has called for Mr. Bae's release on humanitarian grounds and says he met with officials from the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang last Friday.
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In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters earlier this month the United States is seeking the immediate release of the two journalists on humanitarian grounds.
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But what if this salutary caution turns into an unwillingness to use force at all, even when it is called for by the national interest or on humanitarian grounds?
Any talks will apparently concentrate on a declaration by Israel on the right of return, a small intake of refugees on humanitarian grounds, and an international compensation and resettlement programme.
He sent a high-ranking cleric and a letter to the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul, to plead for Athanasiadis' release "on humanitarian grounds, " said Father John Chryssavgis, an adviser to the patriarch.
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.
"At the request of the secretary-general, the Myanmar government is processing to grant amnesty to prisoners on humanitarian grounds and with a view to enabling them to participate in the 2010 general elections, " he said.
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As American pundits and politicians call for Syrian intervention, however merited or unjustified those appeals may be on humanitarian grounds, such pleas have yet to rally majority support for such action in America, Europe or the Middle East.
After being refused asylum, Ms Fornah - who has been given permission by the Home Office to stay in the UK for three years on humanitarian grounds - went to an immigration adjudicator who ruled against the government's decision.
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