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Aid has never been just about helping people. It’s also about gaining influence and exercising soft power.
Trump has called Venezuela a ‘human tragedy’ and threatened invasion while quietly deporting and denying asylum to Venezuelan refugees. His anti-socialist rhetoric may make for good midterm politics.
The urge to provide disaster aid is borne out of the best characteristics of humanity. But it’s important to consider when to donate to disaster survivors, along with what and to whom to give.
The billions of dollars worth of aid dispatched every year to alleviate the suffering and damage after earthquakes and hurricanes would do more good if it didn’t get clumped up.
The security of local aid agency workers on the front line hasn’t been prioritised.
While his appointment as UN Secretary-General was a huge breakthrough, Kofi Annan also led the organisation through some of its ugliest moments.
The Caribbean braces for another hurricane season even as many nations remain crippled by the catastrophic damage of 2017. Here, experts assess the region’s difficult and costly storm recovery.
Australia faces many security issues driven by climate change, including more international migration and an increase in defence personnel being sent on disaster relief missions, a Senate inquiry has found.
One hundred and forty thousand people died when a major hurricane hit Myanmar in 2008. Would the country be better prepared today?
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.
Poor countries aren’t receiving the most foreign aid. Why? And what should be done?
Compared to its foreign disaster missions, the US military mobilized slowly after Maria. But in numbers, capacity and logistics coordination, its work in Puerto Rico was on par with other aid efforts.
Survival sex – the exchange of sexual favours for aid packets – happens in refugee camps everywhere. Victims are not protected by international human rights law.
We don’t care, or possibly dare, to look back five or ten years later to see what happened to international aid projects.
Refugee policy may well be a humanitarian issue. But it is also a development issue.
Most overseas aid workers remain largely cut off from the people they are in emergency settings to help.
With a single cut in donations to a UN agency, Donald Trump has abandoned another norm of US foreign policy. The consequences could be disastrous.
From California’s fires to the Rohingya, headlines can be overwhelming these days. But that doesn’t mean we should neglect so-called ‘silent crises,’ which can quickly erupt into global disasters.
A huge majority of humanitarian employees are local to the country of intervention, but their motivations and pressures are often misunderstood.
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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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Liverpool John Moores University
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Lecturer in Operations Management, Lancaster University
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Professor of Public Health and Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor Emeritus in Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
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Business School Associate Director, Edge Hill University
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Professor, Université de Lubumbashi
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PhD Researcher, Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Director, Program on Resilient Communities, Harvard University
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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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Associate Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
