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asked 103 humanitarian professionals, media personalities, academics and
activists which “forgotten” emergencies they would urge the world’s media to
focus on in 2005.
Conflict in
Democratic Republic of Congo topped the poll as the world’s worst “forgotten”
crisis, followed by war in northern Uganda, conflict in southern and western
Sudan, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, humanitarian suffering in West Africa,
displacement in Colombia, misery in Chechnya, strife in Haiti, insurgency in
Nepal and infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.
In addition,
respondents highlighted other emergencies, including turmoil in
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Below is a
complete list of those polled and their nominations for humanitarian crises
neglected by the media. Respondents were free to define emergencies in any way
and could highlight as many crises as they liked.
Joy Andrew
Supporter
enquiries
Tearfund – UK |
Democratic
Republic of Congo |
Meghan Armistead
Program development coordinator &
senior writer Lutheran World Relief - USA |
Haiti,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, northern Uganda, Liberia |
Ken Bacon
President Refugees
International - USA |
Northern
Uganda |
Frank Baum
Coordinator projects Diakonisches Werk EKD - Germany
|
Democratic
Republic of Congo, Chechnya, Colombia |
|
Brian Beckett Programme funding and support/emergencies team Christian Aid – UK
|
Democratic
Republic of Congo |
Martin Bell
British journalist, former lawmaker,
UNICEF UK’s ambassador for humanitarian emergencies
|
Darfur |
Mihir Bhatt
Honorary director Disaster Mitigation Institute – India |
Gujarat
Riots of 2002 |
|
Jan Boeynaems Finance director Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF)
– Belgium |
Democratic
Republic of Congo |
Vicki Horne Bonet
Communications manager Oxfam Community Aid Abroad – Australia |
Sudan,
Democratic Republic of Congo, HIV/AIDS |
Joy Borman
Team administrator for East and Southern Africa&
senior writer Tearfund – UK |
Northern
Uganda |
Salvano Briceno
Director U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction |
Looming natural hazards |
Annabel Brown
Community Aid Abroad - Australia |
East Timor nation building, Afghan reconstruction, Iraq in turmoil,
HIV/AIDS in Africa |
|
Sian Buckley Production manager, Rooftop Productions Christian Aid – UK
|
Northern
Uganda |
|
Kate Bulbulian Press officer Care International - UK |
Angola reconstruction, HIV in southern
Africa, chronic malnutrition in southern Africa, Malawi in dire straits,
Zimbabwe food shortages |
|
Isabelle Carboni Programme officer, West Africa and Asia Methodist
Relief and Development Fund - UK |
Democratic
Republic of Congo |
Joel Charny
Vice president for policy Refugees International - USA |
Internal
displacement in Myanmar |
Lucia Castelli
Programme manager Association
of Volunteers in International Service – Italy |
Northern
Uganda |
Noam Chomsky
U.S.
political commentator, activist, author and MIT professor
|
West
Papua, Israel-Palestine, natural disasters and child labour in Nicaragua,
Haiti, Colombia displacement, displacement of Turkish Kurds, horrifying
conditions for rural populations in India and China, Democratic Republic of
Congo |
|
James Cox Advocacy
Officer Children’s Christian Fund -
Australia
|
Northern
Uganda, HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea |
Alan Davis
Director of strategy and assessment Institute of War and Peace
Reporting - UK |
African Great Lakes region, Ingushetia and Karachayevo-Cherkessia,
Zimbabwe, Iraq, Darfur |
|
Annabel Devas Campaigns assistant Tearfund
- UK
|
Northern
Uganda |
Emma de Vise
Country programme coordinator War Child – UK |
African
Great Lakes region |
Deron Denton
Staff writer Children International – USA |
Nepal,
Africa, plight of Iraqis after U.S. invasion |
|
Michael Eccles Regional programme officer, Balkans and
North Caucasus Islamic Relief - UK |
Chechnya |
Jan Egeland
United
Nations emergency relief coordinator |
Somalia,
northern Uganda, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Colombia, Darfur |
|
Ewa
Eriksson Desk
officer for South Asia
International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
Nepal |
|
Bryan Evans Researcher, public policy team Tearfund - UK |
Democratic
Republic of Congo, Sudan |
Gareth Evans
President International Crisis Group - Belgium |
Nepal,
northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo |
Justine Frain
Vice president, global community
partnerships GlaxoSmithKline
Plc
|
Neglected infectious diseases |
Jose Maria Gallardo
Head of international cooperation department Caritas Internationalis
|
Somalia |
Tapiwa Gomo
Regional senior information
officer, Southern Africa
International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies |
HIV/AIDS
in Southern Africa |
|
Lola Gostelow Humanitarian policy advisor Save the Children - UK
|
Democratic
Republic of Congo, Northern Uganda, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nepal |
K.V. Gouthami
Emergency management and preparedness officer, South Asia Christian Aid - UK |
Hunger in
Africa
|
George Graham
Programme
officer, East Africa
International Rescue Committee - UK |
Northern
Uganda, Sudan’s other conflicts (excluding Darfur and southern Sudan),
Eritrea malnutrition |
Julia Greenberg
Deputy director of international programs American Jewish World Service - USA |
Northern
Uganda, food security and HIV in Zimbabwe
|
|
Debarati Guha-Sapir Director Centre for Research on Disasters, School of
Public Health, University of Louvain, Brussels |
Somalia |
|
Paul Harvey Research fellow Humanitarian Policy Group Overseas Development Institute - UK |
Northern
Uganda |
|
Media officer for emergencies Save the Children UK |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
|
Karen Hill Australia general manager Save the Children - Australia |
Volcanic eruption and
evacuation, Manam Island, Medang, PNG |
|
Lindsey Hilsum International editor Channel 4 News - UK |
Democratic
Republic of Congo |
|
Maria Immonen Advocacy and communication Lutheran World Federation World Service |
West Africa, Horn of Africa, Eritrea |
|
Jean Luc Jouhaneau Chargé de
mission Triangle
Génération Humanitaire - France |
North Korea |
|
Tanja Knierim Challenge
fundraising assistant CARE
International - UK |
Northern
Uganda |
|
Andy
Kenyon Community Aid
Abroad - Australia |
Drought in northwest Somalia, hunger in
Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo |
|
Brenna
Kupferman Deputy director and partnership coordinator ActionAid - USA |
Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Uganda, Sudan |
|
Joe
Lowry, Ukraine
representative International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
Tuberculosis in Eastern Europe |
|
Alec Leggat Programme
funding manager Ockenden International |
Plight of Saharwari people |
|
Lynette
Lowndes Head of
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Europe
Department |
Chernobyl, internally displaced people
in Balkans, HIV/AIDS and tuberculoisis in Eastern Europe/Central Asia |
|
Maureen Lynch Refugees International - USA |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria
violence, Colombia, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, stateless people, North
Koreans in China, displaced people throughout Central Asia, environmental and
climate-related displacement, long-term effects of gender-based violence,
long-term effects of torture/psychological trauma from conflict, needs of
special populations including adolescents, elderly and disabled in
emergencies, detained individuals, particularly asylum seekers |
|
Bob
McInnis International
coordinator Canadian Red
Cross |
HIV/AIDS |
|
Louise McLean Emergencies communications and
initiatives manager. Emergencies team ActionAid
International |
Northern Uganda |
|
Laurie MacGregor Information section Norwegian Church Aid |
Human trafficking, water, Africa,
Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo |
|
Lucinda MacPherson Senior press and communications officer The Diana,
Princess of Wales Memorial Fund - UK |
Legacy of Rwanda genocide |
|
Anna Mecagni MALD '05 Candidate The Fletcher School, Tufts University,
Boston |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern
African food crisis and HIV/AIDS, Colombian displacement |
|
Pierre
Mercier Assistant to desk officer Première
Urgence - France |
Western Sahara, Horn of Africa, locust
plague, Uganda, Zimbabwe |
|
Manuela Mesa Writer Centro de
Investigacion para la Paz (CIP), Madrid |
HIV/AIDS |
|
Jonathan Miller Foreign affairs correspondent Channel 4
News - UK |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Chechnya,
Aceh, Nepal, Mindanao |
|
Helen
Mirren British film
actor, visited Uganda with Oxfam |
Northern Uganda |
|
Anna Morck Project
manager Norwegian
Refugee Council |
Chechnya |
|
Elisabeth
Michau Head of fundraising and publicity Health Unlimited - UK |
Malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and
other infections |
|
Anuradha
Mittal Executive
director The Oakland
Institute - USA |
International debt |
|
Pierre Moon Regional
funding coordinator, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda and
Uganda OXFAM
Regional Centre, Nairobi |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
|
James Morris Executive director U.N. World Food Programme |
South
Sudan, HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, northern Uganda, Colombia displacement,
chronic hunger |
|
Anne Nilsen Head of media
unit Norwegian Red
Cross |
Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Uganda, Haiti, Ethiopia/Eritrea |
|
Mamadou Ndiaye Director
general Office
Africain pour le Development et la Cooperation – Senegal |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Great Lakes, Liberia, Somalia |
|
Mark Osola Water and
sanitation, Sierra Leone RedR-IHE – UK |
Debt relief |
|
John O'Shea Chief
executive GOAL –
Ireland |
Democratic Republic of Congo, northern
Uganda, Darfur |
|
Mari Paajanen Programme
officer for humanitarian aid FinnChurchAid
- Finland |
Chechnya, Bam earthquake survivors |
|
Loretta Peschi External relations department INTERSOS - Italy |
Darfur, Democratic
Republic of Congo, northern Uganda |
|
Roy Probert Communications
chief International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies |
Drought in Eritrea, HIV
in southern Africa, malaria, Mongolia, Palestinian autonomous and occupied
territories, disaster preparedness in Caribbean |
|
Juliette Prodhan Acting
regional humanitarian coordinator Oxfam GB in East Asia |
Sudan |
|
Toni Radler Communications
director Christian
Children's Fund - Australia |
Northern Uganda |
|
Tim Raby Disaster
management officer, northern Uganda Tearfund -
UK |
Northern
Uganda |
|
Samantha Rennie Director Handicap
International - UK |
Angola, Madagascar, Rwanda, Senegal,
Sierra Leone |
|
Anne C. Richard Vice president, Government Relations
& Advocacy, International Rescue Committee - USA |
Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo,
West Africa, northern Uganda, Great Lakes, Chechnya |
|
Thomas Dunmore Rodríguez Programme
officer for South America Christian Aid
– UK |
Urban violence in Brazil |
|
Show Ei
Tun International
Programmes Group World Vision
- USA |
Myanmar
displacement |
|
Toril Skjetne Advisor to the advocacy
unit/publications coordinator Norwegian Refugee Council |
Northern Uganda, Sudan, Colombia |
|
Amy
Slorach Appeal
coordinator Tearfund - UK |
HIV/AIDS in Africa |
|
Jon
Snow News
anchorman Channel 4
News - UK |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
Paul Stadlen
Writer Prospect
Magazine - UK |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia,
Somaliland |
|
Sarah
Stewart Head of
editorial Christian Aid
- UK |
Colombia,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti |
|
Nathan Targett Disaster management officer, Eastern and
Southern Africa Team Tearfund - UK |
Northern Uganda |
|
Larry
Thompson Senior
advocate Refugees
International - USA |
Northern Uganda, southern Sudan |
|
Geert
van der Linden Vice
president Asian
Development Bank |
Human trafficking |
|
Tony Vaux British
author of ‘The Selfish Altruist’ and head of Humanitarian Initiatives |
Western Congo |
|
Julie
Verhaar Senior
fundraiser The
Netherlands Red Cross |
Sudan conflict, Uganda violence, Ivory
Coast unrest, Haiti unrest, North Korea famine |
|
Dan Vexler Research manager International
Crisis Group - Belgium |
Nepal, Bangladesh, Kosovo |
|
Ann
Walle Director of marketing and communications
Church World Service - USA |
Sudan, Haiti, Liberia, repatriation of
Burundian refugees from camps in western Tanzania |
|
Jonathan Walter Editor, ‘World Disasters Report’ International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
Burma IDPs, Nepal, India fluoride
poisoning, India NE insurgency and AIDS, Central African Republic,
pregnancy-related deaths worldwide, Russia/FSU radioactive contamination,
AIDS in Eastern Europe |
|
Mariel
Weighill Programmes
director War Child -
UK |
Impact on children in Democratic
Republic of Congo, northern Uganda, Chechnya, Colombia, Nepal, Balkans |
|
Fundraising
department Médecins
Sans Frontières - UK |
Gap between rich and poor |
|
Pam Wilson International relief coordinator Operation Mercy - Sweden |
HIV/AIDS,
effects of global warming |
|
Yoma Winder Humanitarian programme advisor, Humanitarian Department, International Division Oxfam GB |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
|
David Wightwick Operations
director Merlin – UK |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia |
|
Gail Wilson Fundraising manager African Medical Research Foundation - UK |
Northern
Uganda, Somalia, HIV/AIDS |
|
Kathryn
Wolford President Lutheran World Relief - USA |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia,
Philippines/Mindanao, Uganda, Haiti |
|
Graham
Wood Head of
policy Ockenden
International - UK |
Global poverty |
|
John
Wallace Head of international
partnerships Mines
Advisory Group - UK |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Kashmir,
Myanmar displacement |
|
Anne Woodworth Planning
advisor, USA Adventist
Development and Relief Agency International - USA |
Darfur, Sudan, Democratic Republic of
Congo |
|
Emergencies communications officer Save the Children Alliance |
Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Somalia, North Korea |
|
Randall Zindler Chief
executive Medair -
Switzerland |
Democratic Republic of Congo, northern
Uganda, Northern Sudan (including Nuba mountains, Upper Nile and West
Darfur), southern Sudan |
|
Pierre Zwahlen Media
relations Terre des hommes Foundation -
Switzerland |
Darfur |
