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The international aid sector’s use of languages needs to change if it is serious about dealing with the issues raised by recent scandals.
The Sea-Watch 3 vessel has been prevented from leaving Malta to continue its search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
International NGOs are promoting a ‘resilience agenda’ that masks their own failings in Palestine.
The majority of South Africans are separated from the wealthy and formal-sector employed minority.
AI seems able to answer questions at the heart of humanitarianism – questions such as who we should save, and how to be effective at scale.
It’s all too easy to miss the point about sex work in areas hit by conflict and disaster. How about listening to the people who experience it?
Regulation adds operational costs that are often inefficient to the delivery of services, or even completely unnecessary.
Environmental and health groups have called for the creation of a non-political federal agency with the power to rule on pollution levels - much like the Reserve Bank does for interest rates.
To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn’t the answer.
Oxfam is not the first charity to be drawn into a high profile scandal. If it is to survive it needs draw on its core ideals.
After a scandal involving Oxfam in Haiti, the UK government has threatened to withdraw aid money from the charity.
Shocking allegations of abuse by Oxfam aid workers in Haiti are testament to how badly the aid sector needs deep, systemic reform.
Power imbalances and inequality lie at the heart of the international development industry. But the Oxfam scandal shows that organisations mustn’t succumb to it.
It is shocking to see the extent to which humanitarian workers in Rwanda became regular eyewitnesses to violence, murder and large-scale massacres in 1994.
Australians have reason to be apprehensive that some civil voices are not being heard in our liberal democracy.
NGOs (non-government organizations) run by women in India and Tanzania fuel the success of development projects, but the women are too easily marginalized once the projects get off the ground.
Along the Balkan route, refugees and migrants are still in need of emergency aid.
A small community health project in north-west Pakistan is showing how UK aid can change lives and perhaps have an impact on national security.
Accused of cooperating with smugglers, NGOs defend migrants’ right to life and point to the inadequate policies of European states.
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
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