A man sits next to dead livestock in the village of Hargududo, Ethiopia, where there’s hardly been a drop of rain in 18 months.
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The ongoing humanitarian crisis raises serious questions about future food and water security in the Horn of Africa.
Grain warehouse destroyed by Russian attacks in Kopyliv, Kyiv province, Ukraine, May 28, 2022.
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Countries have used starvation as a war strategy for centuries, historically without being prosecuted. Three experts on hunger and humanitarian relief call for holding perpetrators accountable.
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Aid workers are supposed to be protected by international humanitarian law. But increasingly they are being targeted by warring parties.
Neutral: organisations such as the Red Cross depend on being neutral to gain the trust of all sides in a war.
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IHOs have learned how to bring warring parties together while at the same time guaranteeing their own security.
Millions of Syrians remain displaced from the conflict that began in 2011.
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Russia has used similar tactics in both countries, including bombings that flatten homes, schools, hospitals and key infrastructure. The humanitarian needs are vast.
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Where it’s risky for aid workers to be on the ground, technology could help.
International Committee of the Red Cross workers prepare bags with bodies of government soldiers to be handed over in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in 2015.
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Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
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As the invasion continues, humanitarian workers could become a target of the Russian army.
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in Africa.
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To date, the program has provided nearly $10 million to roughly 137,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.
Members of the Ukrainian armed forces pass by wreckage on March 9, 2022, in Mykolaiv.
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The money is evenly split between military support and funds for economic, humanitarian and other needs.
Evacuees from Ukraine stand under a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin on March 7, 2022.
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Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are using humanitarian corridors to leave the country. But these routes are often announced for political reasons and do not always offer safety
Checkpoint in rural South Sudan. This has been set up by government security forces.
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Barges transporting goods can end up paying up to US$10,000 in taxes for one trip.
Charity fundraising materials often include stereotypical images of life in low-income countries.
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These photos tend to oversimplify the issues that cause poverty and the suffering of poor people in low-income countries.
The aftermath of the 2021 earthquake in Haiti.
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Collaboration can have immediate benefits in the most dire circumstances.
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Afghanistan is facing a looming hunger crisis. But the world must engage with the Taliban on purely pragmatic and humanitarian grounds, without extending formal recognition.
A nurse moves scrap from a damaged part of the Wukro General Hospital which was shelled, in Wukro, north of Mekele, on February 28, 2021.
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The rate and scale of the destruction of Tigray’s healthcare system is severe.
Le logo de l'OMS devant le siège de l'institution.
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L’exploitation et les abus auxquels nécessitent une réaction plus pro-active et moins passive.
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WHO’s safeguarding failure in the DRC has re-focused attention on the sexual misconduct that surfaces with disgraceful regularity in humanitarian, development, and peacekeeping operations worldwide.
Anwar Albrnaoy, a refugee from Nigeria, works at the Baeckerei Berger bakery in Germany thanks to a government initiative.
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Our “Self-Reliance Index” helps organisations and governments assess how their programmes are doing in helping refugees to become self-reliant.
Humanitarian agencies are often thrust into the heart of contentious crises without easy or quick solutions.
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When humanitarian agencies are obliged to stop operations by political decision or because of huge physical insecurity, the poorest and most vulnerable succumb first through starvation and disease.