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Refugees International (RI) launched on Wednesday a report series called "Forgotten People", in which it will highlight humanitarian crises it believes have been forgotten or neglected by the international community.
RI offers three explanations as to why some humanitarian crises receive more attention than others: first, some humanitarian emergencies may not engage the national interests of major aid donors; second, the international media do not give all emergencies the same amount of attention; third, aid agencies and NGOs may not be doing enough to inform the public and policy makers about the urgent needs of forgotten people.
The series begins with a report on the plight of the people of the Ituri District of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and subjected to violence by numerous warring parties, including rape, brutality, theft and the recruitment of child soldiers.
"Our objective is to increase public awareness of the human cost of this virtually unknown conflict and humanitarian emergency," RI said in a statement.
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