This starving/hunger child crawling towards a UN feeding station at Sudan

The photo captured by a little known photographer, Kevin Carter’s won the Pulitzer-Prize. The context was the Southern Sudan, which was amidst civil war and famine. The subject was a starving child crawling towards a UN feeding station while a vulture waited nearby, a scene that made the world weep. SCF used this image in one of their advertising campaigns at a time when the organisation had no operations in Sudan. For an agency known as the global leader of child rights, SCF found itself embroiled in the centre of an ethics controversy.

A starving/hunger child crawling towards a UN feeding station in Southern Sudan. The Pulitzer-Prize winner Photo.

"Kevin Carter's Pulitzer-Prize-winning image proved beneficial for a charity that neither provided famine relief in Sudan, nor intervened to prevent the likely fate of the little girl. Moreover, abusing the image in a different context the SCF willingly altered the ethnicity, nationality, religion and country of origin of a suffering human being. A nameless infant girl wearing nothing but tribal jewellery became a symbol of the inclemency of Sudanese life."