Humanitarians

Humanitarians - Costa Rica

According to Linda Polman, “humanitarians carry the integrity of their Red Cross principles – neutrality, independence, and impartiality – before them like a shield and think it is self-evident that the principles more important than their consequences. “ Humanitarians are very sensitive in every country. “Theirs is an ineluctable humanitarian duty, they argue. They have no choice but to ease human suffering, even if the bad guys benefit.” We found that humanitarians are not controlled easily. Humanitarians seemed to be goodness, but the bad guys would also benefit from it.

In Costa Rica, there is a non-profit foundation called the Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation that to develop creative and economical solutions to a wide range of social problems.  It mainly focuses on the problem from young people. The organization would provide opportunities to exchange friendship, goods, services, and financial resources for critical needs among different cultures, socio-economic classes, and language groups. We found that the organization would help avoid kinds of the social problem and improve the education level for the young people. However, humanitarian would still lead lots of social problem such as race, class and crime.  I found that I researched Costa Rica humanitarians” in google search, most of articles are the explanation and description about Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation. It could show that the government pays lots of attention on the organization; in other words, the government thinks that the taking care to the young people is the main mission for them now. it could also show that the government attaches important to the young people in Costa Rica.

There is an article called 10 Costa Rica stories to watch in 2014 in The Tico Times online. It lists 10 main issues happened in Costa Rica in 2014 which are interesting and some of them are relating to humanitarian. They are tourism’s steady climb, what will become of Costa Rica’s oceans, Costa Rica’s carbon-neutrality goals: myth or reality, Moin Port expansion, is a Costa Rica primavera on the horizon, Border dispute: Costa Rica vs. Nicaragua, can we just balance the budget already, will in vitro fertilization finally become legal, will Costa Rica legalize illicit drugs and Costa Rica heads back to the World Cup. These ten stories included the social issues and environmental issues. The one I really want to point out that relating humanitarian is will in vitro fertilization finally become legal. According to the article, vitro fertilization is only illegal in Costa Rica in the western hemisphere. There is a question that illegalizing for vitro fertilization is protecting humanitarian or harming humanitarian. “The Inter-American Court of Human Rights already has ruled that Costa Rica must grant its citizens access to the procedure as a matter of human rights. The irony is that Costa Rica fought for nearly a decade to headquarter the human rights’ court in San José. President Laura Chinchilla also pushed for its legalization.” Human rights are really important in the situation. Even though the government want to legalize the vitro fertilization as other western countries,  it must grant its citizens access to the procedure to do the voting. However, as Costa Rica is still a traditional country, it’s very difficult for them to legalize the vitro fertilization. For the voting here, we could actually see the humanitarian.

References: 

http://www.crhf.org/

http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/01/21/10-costa-rica-stories-to-watch-in-2014