The altitude that they have achieved lately our levels of political polarization is making it seem subjective facts as goals, such as hunger, humanitarian action and migration. None of the three terms should be debatable: are words that mean exactly what they want to say, and that may be based on Pinbahis data and measurements to leave them out of the field of interpretation.
The list of countries in which only imply that there are girls and children with malnutrition is used as a weapon between parties has thickened dramatically in the last few years. The controversy occurs not only within these countries: also in Spain to refer to depending on what issues of foreign policy carries behind a meticulous calculation of revenue in the form of ballots in the ballot box, giving cannon fodder to the populism.
hunger is not a political statement. Say if there is hunger there is to give reason to the right nor to the left. Say with rigour that there is hunger is as easy as measuring the relation weight-length, weight-age and upper-arm circumference in a large sample of under five years of age. And, above all, to do so free and scientifically proven to be able to immediately troubleshoot the problem, not to give the reason to anyone. But the reality is that today, we have difficulties to carry out an accurate diagnosis in many parts of the world, in large part because we know that just announce the results will be interpreted from the political arena, inside and outside the country, and not from the humanitarian. Even talking about problems of child nutrition in Spain already has some political connotations at all unnecessary.
Precisely humanitarian is another of the words that is being stripped away by politicians of attributes such as neutrality, impartiality or transparency. Many countries in the world, a large part among those who have higher rates of malnutrition, understand the word humanitarian as almost a fault: they believe that to acknowledge the necessity of humanitarian aid is to recognize their failures of governance. Deny the possibility of a performance that is based solely and exclusively on the analysis of the needs and capacity of local response. While you decide to use the term or they begin to search for synonyms and finding difficulties with descriptions around to refer to the desired help without having to say “humanitarian”, or hundreds of thousands of girls and boys, women and men suffering unnecessarily. The belated recognition of a humanitarian crisis can be every bit as damaging as the crisis itself.
The belated recognition of a humanitarian crisis can be every bit as damaging as the crisis itself
finally, the word migration is now, more than ever in the center of the target policy in Spain. Migrations have been the mechanism of adaptation is more ancient than humanity, that have contributed to the economic and social development of peoples, which resolved many times a demographic challenge, or that all european countries have been before or after origin of migrants seems to be something secondary.
In Marrakech, you just have an important appointment to approve the world Pact for migration safe, orderly and regular . Although it was a proposal merely declaratory, not legally binding, several states decided to withdraw from the final agreement in spite of their participation in the preparation of the same. Refused to agree to a single common international framework for the management of migratory movements. They gave way to the polarization in the short term instead of dealing in a more serene manner the mobility of the person, that is, without a doubt, the great challenge of the TWENTY-first century along with climate change.
While occur these discussions semantic, time passes. Happens with objective facts in parts of the world as our southern border, by which they entered this year, 59,000 people and left the lives of more than 2,100, the caravan from Mexico to the US, that moved more than 7,000 people just a month ago or the crisis that has been moved from 2014 to more than two million and means of venezuelans , constituting the phenomenon of migration more rapid in the past decades.
Of the 244 million people are international migrants there are in the world (only 3% of the world’s population is only 22.5 million are refugees who flee from open conflict or political persecution or religious, and that puts your life in danger. Millions of women, children and men fleeing, quite simply, hunger. While we decided whether to call it hunger, migration, humanitarian crisis, someone should help them.
*Olivier Longué director general of Action Against Hunger. www.accioncontraelhambre.org
