To provide food for the hungry, or respect their cultural traditions, that is the question, Understanding the moral implications faced by NGOs in their work

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The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights establishes both the right to subsistence and the right to culture as rights that all humans should have. In practice, however, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) run into many moral implications when providing aid to the hungry, one of them being conflicts with local customs. In this essay, I will discuss a theoretical account of actions for providing some insight into the moral implications faced by NGOs in their work. First I discuss both one’s right to subsistence and one’s right to culture, and finally establish whether it’s possible to have one of these rights take precedence of the other.

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1. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/philosophy_hontheses/15
2. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=philosophy_hontheses

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human rights

cultural rights

non-governmental organizations

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:scholarworks.gsu.edu:philosophy_hontheses-1015
Date	13 January 2016
Creators	Cross, Stephanie
Publisher	ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
Source Sets	Georgia State University
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Philosophy Honors Theses