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The forgotten crises in 2008

MSF publishes the report on forgotten crises in 2008

Fewer news on the humanitarian crisis in the Italian TG

Rome - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is today publishing a new report on the most serious humanitarian crises in 2008 and ignored by the media. The report contains the "top ten" of the humanitarian crisis and an analysis carried out in collaboration with the Centre of Pavia space dedicated to humanitarian crises by major television news programs in general Italy.

The ten identified by MSF humanitarian crisis as the most serious and ignored in 2008: the humanitarian disaster in Somalia , the health situation in Myanmar ; the health crisis in Zimbabwe ; civilians in the grip of war in Eastern Congo (DRC), the child malnutrition, the critical situation in the Somali region of ' Ethiopia, the civilians killed or fleeing in northwestern Pakistan, violence and suffering in Sudan i Iraqi civilians need of care, the HIV-TB co-infection .

Analysis of major events (day and evening) news of RAI and Mediaset confirms the trend observed in recent years a steady decline of the news on the humanitarian crisis, which fell from 10% of all the news in 2006, to 8% in 2007 to 6% (4901 reports a total of 81,360) in 2008.

Of these, only 6 are those dedicated to ' Ethiopia, where the population of the Somali region, caught in clashes between rebel groups and government forces continue to be excluded from essential services and humanitarian aid, and nothing to HIV-TB co-infection , although TB \u200b\u200bis a leading cause of death for people living with HIV / AIDS and about one third of the 33 million people with HIV / AIDS in the world is suffering from TB in a latent form.

to other contexts where there are serious humanitarian crises going on for years, media attention is focused only on a short period of time coinciding with what is identified as the peak of the crisis. This is the case of Myanmar , that our TG deal only when the cyclone Nargis, which also represents just one more blow to a population almost forgotten by the rest of the world where HIV / AIDS continues to kill tens of thousands of people Each year, malaria continues to remain the leading cause of death and are diagnosed every year 80 thousand new cases of tuberculosis. And it is the case in the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo , where in 2008 the fighting continued between government forces and various armed groups, which have degenerated into a real war since August, which has provoked the flight of hundreds of thousands of people. Our TG has only talked about the crisis during the siege of the city of Goma in October and November, and already in December the situation had returned to being a forgotten crisis.

In the case of humanitarian crises in the TG have devoted a considerable space, as the ' Iraq or Pakistan , it should be noted, however, as news of the tragic humanitarian situation of the Iraqi civilian population or that of the north-west Pakistan, are a minority. Instead, they are privileged, in the case of Iraq, in addition to news of the attacks, news-oriented Italian or American involvement in Iraqi affairs and in the case of Pakistan, the elections and the bombings.

Finally, in 2008 the trend is confirmed by our media, to talk about situations of crisis especially when linked to events and / or Italian or other western characters. Emblematic in this respect are the crisis in Somalia, to which the dedicated TG 93 news (out of 178 total) involving one or more of our countrymen, child malnutrition, which is spoken mainly in the summits of the G8 or the FAO and the Sudan, which refers primarily to initiatives awareness that involve known and testimonial for news about the investigation by the International Criminal Court to the President of Sudan.

"Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was founded with the aim of bringing relief to people in distress and to testify about their situation. The act of witness, which means telling the life and the suffering of populations affected by war, disease and natural disasters, is essential for us, "said Kostas Nicolai, General Director of MSF in Italy. "Telling it also means to raise an issue that otherwise may remain unknown, it means to draw to their responsibilities towards the populations at risk, governments and institutions, this means launching a cry of alarm when even our action, humanitarian action is impeded. It is often difficult in Italy but also in the rest of the world, telling the life and sufferings of millions of people we meet and treat each year in over 60 countries worldwide. This is why MSF is engaged in an action of constant stimulus to the mass media to not fail to inform about the reality of the many contexts of crisis in the world, in the mistaken belief that they are not experienced. Our hope is that the Italian media to accept the challenge of telling the humanitarian crisis in the knowledge that telling is the first step to address and solve, by joining the campaign adopts a forgotten crisis. "

(11.3 / 2009 by http://www.msf.it/ )