>"People all over the U.S. tell us how much they want to show solidarity and do more to help others in crisis around the world. But how can they when a crisis is virtually invisible?"

"Millions of people are struggling through crises in places that rarely, if ever, get mentioned in the U.S. news, and in our experience, silence is the best ally of injustice."

… Nicolas de Torrente, Executive Director of MSF in the United States.

The Eighth annual list focuses on conflicts in DR Congo, Haiti and Chechnya; crises in Somalia and southern Sudan; as well as the lack of research and development for new HIV/AIDS tools

Flash Gallery of Top Ten

According to Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the online media-tracking journal The Tyndall Report, the 10 stories highlighted by MSF accounted for just eight minutes of the 14,529 minutes on the three major U.S. television networks' nightly newscasts for 2005.

How much do you know about these crisis? Information is power; the following press release from Medecins Sans Frontieres is one of the the only voices in the US for the millions of these powerless people it seems.

Those of us involved in communication have a huge job to do.

Read the full MSF Press Release

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