A desire to reduce suffering, save lives and maintain human dignity is central to understanding humanitarian education.

The impact the conflict is having on the civilian population also requires substantial international efforts to address the crisis and reduce suffering.

Usually these patients have also made explicit their wish to receive only palliative care to reduce pain and suffering.

Medical science has always assumed its research would save lives and reduce suffering.

What's needed is a new way of evaluating drug policies by looking at how they reduce crime and suffering.

For me, as for many others, the most important ethical issue is about reducing human suffering.

We want to reduce human suffering caused by anti-personnel mines.

This highly selective approach would reduce costs and human suffering.

The information carries the potential to do enormous good for people, in terms of reducing illnesses and suffering.

However, while it's going on you want to at least reduce pain and suffering.