10 Forgotten Crises in the World, according to 100 relief professionals

AlertNet, the news service operated by the Reuters Foundation serving those who work in the area of relief and their supporters, surveyed 100 of the world's leading relief professionals, humanitarians, activists and media-watchers, and asked them what stories need more coverage.

This was a good question to ask, because although the media provided extensive coverage of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, in terms of number of people effected, it was in fact an unfortunate, but relatively limited, event. In fact, deaths due to poverty, hunger, water-contamination and preventable disease dwarf those from the Tsunami, from the 9/11/2001 Attacks on New York and Washington, and all the stories swamping the media from the Middle East conflicts and so on.

They wrote up the list of 10 stories that these experts feel are underreported, releasing it on March 10, 2005, and I recommend that you take a look. FACTSHEET: Top 10 Forgotten Crises, and Congo War tops AlertNet poll.