Hunger, Health, and Compassion

• Autores: Lawrence O. Gostin
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 317, Nº. 19, 2017, págs. 1939-1940
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The juxtaposition of headlines must have sent shivers down the spines of the global humanitarian and human rights communities. Even as headlines warned of 20 million people in Africa and the Mideast facing starvation, the Trump administration was proposing unprecedented cuts in foreign assistance.

    While the drastic cuts may not come to pass, US values of compassion are being eroded. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned other countries to provide a larger share of assistance. Perhaps signaling what is to come, in the first quarter of 2017, US contributions to humanitarian appeals decreased by nearly one-half from the level for 2016. And even small cuts to humanitarian assistance are more than the world’s most desperate people can afford, with United Nations humanitarian appeals already routinely underfunded.