famine victims
Those facing starvation
Famine victims are people suffering or dying from severe food shortage.
The phrase appears in news coverage and humanitarian appeals: Famine victims in the region number in the hundreds of thousands.
It frames affected populations as recipients of aid or objects of concern, sometimes criticized for reducing complex human experiences to a single category of suffering.
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- humanitarian crisisLarge-scale emergency harming populations
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
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- faminestarvation, mass starvation, hunger, crop failure, food scarcity
- victimscasualty, survivors, fatality, casualties, sufferer
- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
- migrantsmigrants, arctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale
- aid recipientsfood stamp users, Medicare recipients, social security recipients, scholarship holders, charity cases
- labor migrationmigrant worker, migrant workers, labor migration, guest workers, guest worker
famine victimswar profiteers
Those enriched by military conflicts
oppressors · warlords · hoarders · corrupt officials · colonial administrators
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