cargohead
Re:Ask HN: How do you get people to care?
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:59AM (#40597448)
To be honest, UN organizations have not been of much help recently.
Last week, there was a mass starvation near an Ethiopian refugee camp.[1] The refugees left the campsite due to constant harassment, kidnappings, and murders by Ethiopian militias. The UNHCR's response was to urge the refugees to return to the campsite despite the dangerous situation there, or they will withhold resources, which led to the mass starvation.
Re:Ask HN: How do you get people to care?
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:39AM (#40597289)
I know, not the most headline friendly country
We are working on it
Ask HN: How do you get people to care?
I am from Sudan. My country has been experiencing a horrific internal conflict for a little more than a year now, and it's only getting worse by the day. However, you can hardly hear about it in the news, on social media, or anywhere else.Now, I am not naive. I understand that the exposure a problem gets is influenced by various political, economic, and social factors, the least of which is the...