# How one photo captured a humanitarian crisis

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxEastVan
- Speaker: Tima Kurdi
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/tima_kurdi_how_one_photo_captured_a_humanitarian_crisis)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"It took only one picture -- the picture of that little boy on the beach -- to move us to be human," says Tima Kurdi, whose nephew Alan Kurdi's death in 2015 made global headlines and drew attention to the plight of refugees. In this moving talk, Kurdi argues that it shouldn't take extreme tragedies to jar the world out of its complacency regarding the refugee crisis, and makes an impassioned plea for more people to speak up and raise awareness.

## Lectures

1. [How one photo captured a humanitarian crisis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/tima_kurdi_how_one_photo_captured_a_humanitarian_crisis/66e082719b45), 15 min (TED's player)