ON DEVELOPMENT: Humanitarian Crisis, Result of Decades of Globalization with No Concern for Social Justice | Inter Press Service

February 24, 2017

GENEVA, Feb 21 2017 (IPS) – The distressing images of desperate people making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean Sea and the Balkans to escape armed conflict, social tensions, discrimination and poverty harm the preconditions to achieve social harmony.

Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim

Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim

This humanitarian crisis is the result of decades of freewheeling globalization with no concern for social justice in all countries. One of its consequences is social upheavals and mass exodus.What remains today of the peace and its dividends that were supposed to accrue to the poorer countries as a consequence of the ending of the East-West conflict?

Source: Humanitarian Crisis, Result of Decades of Globalization with No Concern for Social Justice | Inter Press Service

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