Tomorrow is World International Day. The nineteenth of August has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly, and is dedicated to recognize humanitarian personnel. Most humanitarian work is on the African continent, attributed to civil wars, poverty and natural disasters. There has been some criticism to humanitarian work on the continent has been ethnocentrism, which is when one’s societal value is used to judge another’s society. Critics of foreign humanitarian efforts in Africa argue that Western society’s obsession with “saving” Africa bear traces of ethnocentrism.
To look at the day we are joined by:
• Jens Pedersen - Humanitarian Policy Adviser, Doctors Without Borders(STUDIO GUEST)
• Markku Aikomus Senior Regional External Relations Officer UNHCR Regional Office for Southern Africa
• Dewa Mavhinga, Senior Africa Researcher,Human Rights Watch,
