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Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe.
The agency is to lose 500 staff positions and restructure operations, as it grapples with a $58 million shortfall.
As Syrians head home in large numbers, they are unearthing new dangers in mines, bombs, and other explosive remnants of war.
In the Damascus neighbourhood of Jobar, which saw some of the war’s fiercest fighters, hidden dangers are lurking amongst the ...
Mustafa Ali al-Hasan, another farmer from al-Nayrab, was displaced for more than six years, spending time in Idlib and ...
The selective moralising of the Western-led global order has been exposed for the lie it always was. It’s time to return to ...
Zamzam, who is in his thirties, first joined the Syria Civil Defence (better known as the White Helmets) as a search and ...
The official death toll from Myanmar’s earthquake disaster has surpassed 3,600, with more than 5,000 people injured and 160 ...
Earthquake access in Myanmar, smaller donors’ newfound power, and who believes in principled humanitarian action?
How the pursuit of growth and capital came to dominate humanitarianism, why it blocks reform, and how to tame it.
IRAQ: An axe-wielding man attacked an annual parade of Assyrian Christians in the Kurdish-run northern Iraq city of Dohuk, ...
Communities near the epicentre have faced years of junta abuses, ongoing battles between the military and armed groups, and, ...