A comment by Gothic in the Haiti thread got me thinking about this. He rightly pointed out that the population of Haiti has been suffrering untold misery for decades yet the place barely registers on our collective conscience. It’s only when we have a humanitarian disaster of such magnitude that we cannot help but sit up and notice.
So where else should we be thinking about and moreover can we (and should we) be doing anthing anyway?
We are of course well aware of events in Iraq and Afghanistan and just starting to realise the epic problems in Yemen. Zimbabwe, The Congo and Somalia too although we lack the will to do anything there. We also focus a lot of emnity on North Korea, Iran and China but again show little in the way of actions.
What are the other Haiti’s out there. Should we at least be aware of them, even if there is little we can do?