A photograph of a Central American father and daughter who drowned on the US-Mexico border is causing shock, but is that outrage useful?

Migrant crisis: do we need distressing images to feel sympathy?

To ignore these pictures would be to ignore the suffering of people around the world, and once we do that, we begin to lose our humanity

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Just because these pictures exist doesn’t mean we should feel forced into looking at them if we don’t want to

A picture of a drowned father and daughter has been widely shared, but we shouldn't need evidence of a crisis to care.

Why has it taken a shocking picture of a drowned father and daughter for us to care about the migrant crisis?