Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières 2008 List of ‘Top Ten Humanitarian Crisis’
January 7, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Announcements, Exposed!, Morning News, Politics
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical humanitarian organization, has been providing an annual list of the “Top Ten” humanitarian crises since 1998 in an effort to generate greater awareness of the magnitude and severity of crises that may or may not be reflected in media accounts.
In a year where most of the media has been focusing on the American elections, these are the ten Most unreported humantiarian stories of 2008…
- Somalia’s Humanitarian Catastrophe Worsens
- Beyond the International Spotlight, Critical Health Needs in Myanmar Remain Unmet
- Health Crisis Sweeps Zimbabwe as Violence and Economic Collapse Spread
- Civilians Trapped as War Rages in Eastern Congo
- Millions of Malnourished Children Left Untreated Despite Advances in Lifesaving Nutritional Therapies
- Critical Need of Assistance in Ethiopia’s Somali Region
- Civilians Killed and Forced to Flee as Fighting Intensifies in Northwestern Pakistan
- No End in Sight to Violence and Suffering in Sudan
- Iraqi Civilians in Urgent Need of Assistance
- HIV/TB Co-infections Posses Health Battle on Two Fronts
Have a read. It’s a true eye opener on what’s really happening in the world around us.
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