Dr Hany El Banna is the president of The Humanitarian Forum, as well as the founder of Islamic Relief, Muslim Charities Forum, Zakat House and the International HIV Fund. He has visited the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries on behalf of these organisations and works tirelessly for those in need. On this blog you can find his own views on life and development.
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The elephant in the room...
As humanitarian workers we need to think globally, but act locally. I feel there are many issues the international community has been turning a blind eye on. These Elephants in the room have been ignored long enough.
Issues such as the problem of DRC, which I believe strongly is one of the ugliest scars on the face of humanity, aren’t being stressed upon. This leads to families losing their dignity and human feeling. Chechenya (where cases of TB have soared) and Burma are only two other deliberately overlooked issues. I could also list Kashmir, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the famine in Niger, which happens every other year.
There are too many elephants locked up inside a little shed because we choose to focus solely on security and the industry surrounding it. We need to maintain a balance between the value of the lives of the forgotten millions of people and the security industry.
What is more valuable to the world: empowered citizens or an empowered security industry?
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