If a person or society has humanitarian ideas or behaviour, they try to avoid making people suffer or they help people who are suffering. Air bombardment raised criticism on the humanitarian grounds that innocent civilians might suffer. concerned with improving bad living conditions and preventing unfair treatment of people humanitarian aid/assistance/relief
someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism; "humanitarian aid
Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid
concerned with peoples welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; humane or compassionate
One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human
marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"