[afro-nets] Equity in an inequitable world

February blog

Claudio Schuftan

EQUITY IN AN INEQUITABLE WORLD: A TALE ABOUT ETHICS, CHARITY, POLITICS, AND RIGHTS.

I often ask myself what we could all do or do better to achieve greater equity, given that we most often work in countries with appalling social inequities. I guess that you do, too.

Here is how I see things. I believe that our role in helping to put in place the needed social processes and mechanisms that will drive sustainable policies in health and nutrition, is inseparable from a will and intent to change the underlying structural inequalities. We can realize and grasp this will and carry out this intention coming from either of two ideological positions: One is ethical, the other is political. I see the challenge for us being to graduate from the first to the second approach.

The full blog can be read at

http://wp.me/plAxa-1yh

Claudio

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Claudio Schuftan
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