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Suffering as NGO Currency

This virtual café discusses the ethical complexities faced by NGOs that use human suffering as currency to carry out their work. Explore the moral dilemmas, principles, and values in striving to ease human distress while navigating integrity, dignity, and duty. Join the conversation on June 10, 2019, from 14:00 to 16:00. Hear stories, reflect on injustices, human rights violations, and discrimination, and learn how suffering is used as a commodity. Gain insights and takeaways on ethical considerations and dilemmas in NGO operations.

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Suffering as NGO Currency

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  1. Suffering as NGO Currency Ethics Café 10 June 2019 14:00 to 16:00 An initiative of Sophiatown Community Psychological Services

  2. Striving to ease human distress and contribute to social transformation is the very foundation of many NGO’s existence. However, the hardship, vulnerability or distress of fellow humans inadvertently becomes the currency that NGO’s trade with to ensure that they can, in fact, do the work that needs to be done. This reality creates a minefield of ethics dilemmas about integrity, dignity, duty, who deserves what and to what extent, ‘strategic/partial’ honesty to stakeholders.

  3. His story … Asad Abdullahi her story … their story …our stories … Unjust war Human rights violations Injustice Discrimination Denied human dignity Used as means to an end

  4. Suffering – Two Ethics Lenses

  5. Suffering – A human experience Suffering as injustice Suffering as virtue Suffering as enlightenment

  6. Suffering used as a commodity To raise awareness To learn from and prevent To soften, alleviate, heal, restore ----------------------------------------- PRESENT FUTURE

  7. NGO’s as agents What are the ethical considerations?

  8. Ethical dilemmas You are faced with an ethical dilemma when: - you need to make a decision about a course of action, - you could choose different options, • none of which is unambiguously the right/preferable course of action, - you have a sense that there will be some ethical compromise made with whatever option is chosen.

  9. PrinciplesValues Dilemmas Social justice, fairness Do no harm Integrity Duty Care, compassion Duty to protect Trustworthiness Dignity Respectfulness Diverse needs Confidentiality and privacy Honesty Informed consent Equality

  10. Normative Ethics

  11. Suffering as NGO Currency Insights? Take-aways? Things to do?

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