The world has turned its back on the Nuba people of Sudan. Despite the critical need for food, none of the organisations involved in helping people in dire need have attempted to deliver aid to them.
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Who is responsible for this problem? Research indicates that it’s often the victims’ own colleagues, and that aid agencies don’t do enough to stop it.
Already one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian disasters, the situation in Yemen is only getting worse.
Rules imposed after 9/11 and still on the books are getting in the way of delivering aid to conflict zones. In countries like Yemen and Syria, it could mean the difference between life and death.
The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
By not acknowledging what Haitians themselves think they need, the UN is failing to sort out one of its worst ever blunders.
Will recent photos of chemical attack victims in Syria provoke a short-term emotional reaction or a sustained humanitarian campaign?
As President Trump puts U.S. foreign aid on the chopping block, few Americans know much about it. Perhaps even fewer realize that the U.S. lags behind its peers on this front.
One of the worst humanitarian disasters in decades is well underway in East Africa.
The humanitarian crisis in the Middle East is getting worse by the day. A survey of aid workers provides a glimpse into life on the ground, and clues to why the humanitarian sector is ailing.
With burgeoning need and an aid system that is failing to cope, what meaning does ‘resilience’ have?
A volunteer force that provides humanitarian aid in the worst of conditions, the White Helmets are the target of some very caustic conspiracy theory.
The Clintons have assembled a globally influential humanitarian behemoth. But is it just a colossal liability?
Calls to stop division between emergency and development aid will be heard at UN’s first ever humanitarian summit.
It’s the first global gathering to discuss humanitarian crises and opportunities – but talk and no action might still end up the order of the day.
The South African military’s capabilities for socio-economic development are questionable, even in its own country. The force is in critical decline, but is expected to aid humanitarian efforts.
The sheer volume of major humanitarian disasters is stopping us from making genuine changes to the way we respond.
Top contributors
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Deputy Director of the HUMLOG (Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research) Institute, Hanken School of Economics
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Lecturer in Operations Management, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Professor of Public Health and Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
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Business School Associate Director, Edge Hill University
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PhD Researcher, Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Associate Rrofessor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
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Director, Program on Resilient Communities, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University
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Professor Emeritus in Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
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Professor, Université de Lubumbashi
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Professor, Durham Law School, Durham University
