The Ethics of Humanitarianism in an Era of Global Interdependence

Abstract

Humanitarianism is an ideology that emphasises the importance of human life and holds that people should treat others
with kindness and aid to lessen suffering and enhance human situations for moral, altruistic, and emotional reasons.
While local and national humanitarianism goes back a long way, international politics experts often date the emergence
of global humanitarian impulses to the 19th century. The founding of the International Red Cross in 1863 is seen as a
turning point in the history of humanitarianism worldwide. Humanitarianism's purview has grown with evolving ideas
about what constitutes a "human" and whose life is valuable. The subject of this paper is global humanitarian assistance.
It talks about how humanitarian emergency help practices and the foundations of humanitarian theory relate to one
another. It looks at some of the most significant moral issues anyone attempting to implement humanitarian values in
the field must deal with. This paper examines the idea of humanitarianism. It also examines how this philosophy is
expressed in the core tenets of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other non-governmental
organizations (NGOs). Finally, it ends with some reflections on the role that humanitarianism plays in the realm of
international ethics.