What the Forgotten Crises Teach Us
There is a list that the United Nations maintains, updated annually, of humanitarian crises that are classified as “underfunded.” In practice, this means crises that have been forgotten – not resolved, but removed from the public consciousness through the simple mechanism of other, newer emergencies competing for the same finite pool of attention and resources.
The people in these crises are still displaced. Still hungry. Still dying at rates that would command headlines if they occurred in countries the media considers important. The difference is that no one is writing about them anymore.