It was the songs that Mariam wrote at the blind school that first attracted Amadou to her, in particular "Teree la Sebin" ("Certificate of Misfortune"), which confronts the plight of the disabled: "You who see me before you/ Have put in my head, A certificate of misfortune… I blame nothing but my malady/ The malady that made me blind".
In 2007, Pakistan was forced to confront the plight of trans men in the case of Shumail Raj and Shahzina Tariq.
A shocking court case in Hong Kong is forcing its citizens to confront the hidden plight affecting thousands of the migrant domestic helpers living among them, some of whom face violence, financial exploitation and social exclusion every day.
Shot in digital video with nonprofessional actors, it has a harsh immediacy that forces you to confront the terrible plight of the world's displaced people one face at a time.
In that talk today, to a coalition of Asian-American groups at the headquarters of the Student Loan Marketing Association, the federally sponsored provider of student loans, he proclaimed that the federal government had to redouble its efforts to confront the educational plight of poor people.
When confronted about the plight of uninsured Americans, Mr Cruz replies that their best hopes lie in good jobs or cheap private-sector policies to cover catastrophic events, and not in government subsidies.
Cameron was also confronted about the plight of steelworkers by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who accused the government of having no industrial strategy to help out the crisis-stricken sector.
At least Italy is confronting the issue.
Consider confronting the person.
We were all forced to confront the reality of the plight of these refugees from a brutal war by seeing someone's son tragically lost during the harrowing voyage many of these refugees have attempted.
