Forgotten Humanitarian Crises: Conference on the Role of the Media, Decision-makers and Humanitarian Agencies

This conference report examines the problem of forgotten crises, analysing their causes and effects. Aiming to provide recommendations on how to ensure that humanitarian crises of the future will remain on the agenda, three main articles examine the following issues:

- Humanitarian crises: What determines the level of emergency assistance?
- Giving voice to silent emergencies
- Failing failed states - Who forgets the forgotten?

The report is the result of 'The Conference on Forgotten Humanitarian Crises' held in Copenhagen in October 2002, where the main players were asked to scrutinise and contemplate upon their own roles, values, principles, and performance in relation to 'forgotten crises'.