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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people

Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people

  • Abandoning the poor to their fate
  • Global triage
  • Indifference to those in poverty

Broader

Indifference to suffering
Presentable
Lack of protection for the vulnerable
Unpresentable
Lack of solidarity with the poor
Yet to rate
Government insensitivity
Yet to rate

Narrower

Social insecurity
Presentable
Taxation of the poor
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Refusal to market new drugs
Presentable
Environmental poverty
Presentable
Disadvantaged groups
Presentable
Denial of access to people in need
Presentable
Inadequate social welfare services
Unpresentable
Institutionalized callousness of public services
Yet to rate
Countries in crisis
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Excessive burden on the poor due to legal delays
Presentable
Embargo on medicines
Presentable
Preoccupation with increasing size
Yet to rate
Pre-millennialism
Yet to rate
Irredeemably disadvantaged regions
Yet to rate
Individualistic welfare responsibility
Yet to rate
Eco-fascism
Yet to rate

Strategy

Researching effects of abandoning the poor to their fate
Unpresentable
Providing the poor with services
Yet to rate
Protecting the poor
Yet to rate
Promoting solutions to poverty
Yet to rate
Ignoring plight of disadvantaged people
Yet to rate
Highlighting disadvantaged
Yet to rate
Ensuring rights of disadvantaged groups
Yet to rate
Abandoning the poor
Yet to rate

Value

Sensitivity
Yet to rate
Poverty
Yet to rate
Oversensitiveness
Yet to rate
Nonglobalized
Yet to rate
Insensitivity
Yet to rate
Disadvantage
Yet to rate

Reference

Keen, David: Refugees: rationing the right to life

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced InequalitySustainable Development Goal #13: Climate ActionSustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • International relations » Planetary initiatives
  • Societal problems » Emergencies
  • Society » Disadvantaged
  • Society » People
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J5037
    DOCID
    12050370
    D7NID
    136691
    Last update
    May 14, 2023