People struggling to survive violence, forced displacement, and disease in Somalia, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere went underreported in the news this year. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières has released its 10th annual “Top Ten” Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007. Executive Director of MSF-USA Nicolas de Torrenté discusses the list.
Read the "Top Ten" Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007
As sobering as it is, it was certainly refreshing to hear level headed reporting about humanitarian crises on the radio (it's practically non-existent on tv). We need more stories like this so that we are forced to stay engaged with the problems of the world and hopefully be moved to do something about it.
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