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Lack of a sense of community and solidarity at the world level

Name(s):

Lack of solidarity with the poor

Claim

The tragedy of groups and even of entire people forced to go into exile, suffer crushing poverty, and be estranged from decent self-sufficient living is felt today as a constant attack on essential human rights. The condition of such people reaches to the very limits of human suffering and becomes a pressing appeal to the conscience of all. International solidarity has not just to do with relieving inhuman conditions, but above all to prevent the causes of such tragedy.

Broader

Fragmentation

Denial of human rights

Narrower

Refugee fatigue

Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people

Inadequate sense of community and solidarity amongst workers

Aggravates

Indifference to suffering

Abandonment by the international community

Aggravated by

Inadequate national empathy for external hardship

Strategy(ies)

Protecting the poor

Enriching community global awareness

Value(s)

Reference(s)

Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues: Winning the Human Race ?

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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