Time to take the high road for humanity

The world’s problems will not be resolved at a two-day gathering of like-minded global humanitarian advocates but part of being a responsible member of a global coalition of the willing is participating in difficult conversations.

In advance of the Summit, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, pictured at the World Economic Forum in 2009, has tabled a highly ambitious vision for change, within its Agenda for Humanity. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY CAROLINE RISEBORO

May 30, 2016

TORONTO—Médecins Sans Frontières’ recent decision to pull out of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) has certainly garnered much public attention. The agency pulled away from the summit on the premise that the inaugural gathering would “...

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