“There are 32 active armed conflicts in which we must also invest in humanitarian aid and political solutions”, says MSF
If something highlighted the Ukrainian crisis was the potential for solidarity of the international community, but it also highlighted the inequalities in the financing and distribution of aid depending on the crisis, the Ukrainian case being a clear example “double standards”.
This is taken from the latest report prepared by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Institute for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (IECAH) titled “Humanitarian action in 2021-2022: beyond the war in Ukraine”which details how this country “has cloudy over the rest of the panorama international” and its crises in an almost “obsessive” way and “contaminating” many other agendas.
A surge of solidarity with Ukraine to the detriment of other crises, such as those of Ethiopia, Yemen, AfghanistanCabo Delgado in Mozambique, or even the weatherwhich goes beyond the wide coverage that the media devotes to this or that issue or to geopolitical factors, to the perception of proximity.
“Instinctively it raises awareness” because “it’s happening in Europein our house”, explained the co-director of the IECAH, Jesús A. Núñez, during the presentation of the report this Thursday in Madrid. “We are economically sorry for what is happening in Ukraine” since impact on fuel and food pricesaccount.
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