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http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/doctors_without_boundaries/ Championing Independent Journalism Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:28:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/doctors_without_boundaries/#comment-1545 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:06:12 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4014#comment-1545 Hmmmm…
It is a dilemma.
1/ As a human, and even more as a humanitarian, you should protect your fellow human being. When working in an area as Darfur, your conscience should guide you to do whatever you can to em-better the living conditions (and surviving conditions) of the people you work with. If this is providing evidence to the ICC, so be it.
If you don’t do that, you become an accomplice to genocide, in my view.
2/ As an employee, and particularly in the situation of and aid worker, you are morally obliged to ensure nothing you do can damage the organisation. In this case this is the more so, as if your actions have consequences in which your organisation can operate in a logistically, security and politically very complex and challenging situation, you will indirectly make the aid provision more difficult, thus endangering the livelihood of those you want to protect.
So it becomes a balance between the two.
In my mind, the right thing to have done in this situation, would have been to provide the evidence, but to separate my personal actions as much as possible from the organisation I work for, and to keep unanimous.

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