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Care crisis report: Ten humanitarian crises that did not make the headlines in 2024
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London: Care International (2025), 26 pp.
"Humanitarian crises are challenges affecting millions of people. They are diverse and global – be they natural disasters, famine crises, conflicts or wars. However, the attention of the global public is usually focused on a few, particularly prominent crises. With this Crisis Report, which is bei
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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2023
London: Care International (2024), 26 pp.
"For the second year in a row, all ten of the most under-reported crises are in Africa. From conflict in Angola to climate change in Zimbabwe, every entry in this report represents countless human tragedies taking place in the shadows of the world’s gaze. Our second most under-reported crisis coun
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Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 127 pp.
"Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected
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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022
London: Care International (2023), 28 pp.
"Our 2022 report shows that all of the most under-reported crises are now in Africa. Hunger is rampant and spreading, particularly in East Africa where one of the worst droughts in living memory is causing over 21 million people to face life-threatening hunger. Water becomes scarcer every day, crops
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The Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2021: 10 Humanitarian Crises That Didn’t Make the Headlines
London: Care International (2022), 27 pp.
"The sixth edition of “The World’s Most Under-Reported Crises” highlights the humanitarian crises that receive the least media coverage worldwide. Why is the public more interested in the billionaire’s space race than the fight for survival of millions of people around the world? The ongoing
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The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises 2021
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2022), 18 pp.
"Each year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes a list of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world. The purpose is to focus on the plight of people whose suffering rarely makes international headlines, who receive no or inadequate assistance, and who never become the centre
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The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2020
Care International (2021), 25 pp.
"The analysis is based on online media coverage in five languages throughout the year. CARE sees a concerning trend of crises being neglected year after year. Six out of the ten crises are located on the African continent. The Central African Republic has appeared in the ranking for five consecutive
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When ‘Seeing Was Believing’: Visual Advocacy in the Early Decades of Humanitarian Cinema
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 18-27
"Focusing on the pivotal period of 1919–23 and the large-scale humanitarian responses in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper discusses the development of advocacy in the movies made by organizations like the ICRC, Save the Children Fund or American Relief Administration. While aid agencies obse
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Media and Compassion After Digital War: Why Digital Media Haven’t Transformed Responses to Human Suffering in Contemporary Conflict
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 102, issue 913 (2021), pp. 117-143
"In this article I contend that the saturation of information and images of human suffering and death in contemporary warfare has not ushered in a new era of “compassion fatigue”. Rather, algorithmically charged outrage is a proxy for effects. It is easy to misconstrue the velocity of linking an
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Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), 232 pp.
"Defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there remains a need to "decolonize" the rhetorics of Ebola prevention and containment. The author asserts that the failure
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2019
Care International (2020), 19 pp.
"With CARE’s fourth global 'Suffering In Silence' report, we are starting to see a trend of certain countries annually remaining on the list of the most under-reported crises. While we expanded the analysis in 2019 by including Spanish and Arabic online media coverage (in addition to English, Fren
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The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2020), 14 pp.
"Each year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes the list of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world, to shine a spotlight on these forgotten emergencies. This is the list for 2019. Although humanitarian assistance should be based on needs alone, some crises receive more att
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Repräsentation ferner Wirklichkeiten: Umstrittene Wissensproduktion in wissenschaftlicher und humanitärer Praxis
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 387 pp.
"Welche Darstellungen von ‚fernen Anderen‘ finden im Globalen Norden Verbreitung und Anklang? Welche nicht? Wer spricht für wen? Wer bleibt ungehört? Und: Weshalb scheint es zunehmend wichtig und geboten, diese Fragen zu stellen? Die sozialwissenschaftliche Studie analysiert und diskutiert kon
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2018
Care International (2019), 19 pp.
"Some crises receive less media coverage than others. Displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo rivals that of Syria but has received far less attention. In the Central African Republic widespread starvation has set in, which has gone largely unnoticed. And while the catastrophic 2010 earthqu
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Comprensión y compasión: El hambre en la prensa de referencia
Covilhã (PO): Universidade da Beira Interior (2019), 622 pp.
Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2017
Care International (2018), 19 pp.
"The importance of media coverage and public awareness to help mobilise funds and increase pressure on decision-makers has been proven again and again. Still, the question on how to ensure better coverage of under-reported crises remains largely unaddressed. So what is needed? Seven equally importan
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Communication
In: Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts
Tim Allen; Anna Macdonald; Anna Radice (eds.)
London, New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 68-80
"This chapter focuses on one of the key areas within the field of humanitarian communication, namely the symbolic construction of distant suffering in image, text and sound. In particular, the chapter examines humanitarian communication produced by humanitarian non-government organizations (NGOs) fo
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2016
Care International (2017), 19 pp.
"Media attention and fundraising for humanitarian causes are closely intertwined. Watching people suffering on TV prompts many of us to engage and donate – this is widely known as “the CNN effect.” Journalists need independent access to report from the ground. This might explain why the humani
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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220
"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a
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