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Humanitarian protection: the glut of “protection messages” as a sign of a wider unease
At the height of the 1982-1985 famine in Ethiopia, a cruel joke was often heard in Spain. A particular European religious leader visits a refugee camp, and seeing a desperate mother holding an emaciated baby, he asks her: What’s wrong with him? Lowering her gaze, she answers, in a barely audible voice: He does not...