I told them this was not purely a humanitarian issue, it was a political issue as well.

And, yes, we will be raising the humanitarian issue.

They do not amount, in aggregate, to anything approaching the humanitarian issue raised by, say, the trade in small arms.

It asks us to open our eyes to this enormous humanitarian issue.

One message he would consistently convey to these foreigners (the press) was that human rights must never be considered a humanitarian issue alone.