AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies - @aishadown.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A million Syrians have returned home, but more support needed so millions more can follow - @unhcr.org www.unhcr.org/us/news/pres...

Was a pleasure to meet so many at #CGI2025

We’re in New York City helping mOm Incubators get funding to send more incubators to Gaza. It’s a great bit of kit that keeps premature babies warm. Easy to use, clean, move, and power. www.momincubators.com

We’re at the @clintonglobal.bsky.social in NYC tomorrow and Thursday. Say hi if you’re attending.

The U.N. refugee agency: governments around the world, especially in the Global North, which includes the United States and countries in Europe, are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum-seekers — even threatening its very existence. apnews.com/article/asyl...

The African Studies Program at the @utoronto.ca is hosting the event: The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan's Neglected War. Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Terrible news from Afghanistan as an earthquake has killed over 800 people. Consider donating to Afghan Relief: www.afghan-relief.org/appeals/afgh...

Our CEO was on CBC National News last week talking about aid drops to Gaza. Gaza needs thousands of truckloads of aid per day. Canada's air drop of half a truckload once is insignificant. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

New report from @doctorswithoutborders.org: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing" #Gaza #GazaHumanitarianFoundation www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

New report from @gccanada.bsky.social: Communicating Evidence for Humanitarian Innovations humanitariangrandchallenge.org/wp-content/u...

Canada’s aid drop of 10 metric tons of aid represented 0.02% of the aid needed daily to Gaza. It’s a photo-op, a stunt, and a distraction from addressing the real issues.

Our CEO @chrishouston.ca was on CBC News yesterday talking about the inadequacies of air drops to Gaza and the need for a lasting ceasefire. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Big humanitarian organizations are continuing their relationship with Boston Consulting Group despite Gaza scandal @willrworley.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

The IFRC mourns the loss of four colleagues from Iranian Red Crescent. Our hearts go out to their families, loved ones, and every member of the Iranian Red Crescent. We urgently reiterate our call: Respect and protect humanitarian staff and volunteers.

A Boston University professor of global health has done the math and created a website to visualize and track the effects of the Trump/DOGE dismantling of USAID. "As of June 15, the death toll for adults and children from aid funding cuts topped 340,000 and came out to 103 deaths per hour."

South Sudan: @msf.org strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State Bombing of only hospital in Old Fangak puts healthcare of 110,000 people at risk www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/south-sudan-...

Good news- Uganda declares end of #Ebola outbreak. A great achievement. www.afro.who.int/countries/ug...

OCHA, the UN’s emergency aid coordination arm, to cut staff by a fifth - @irwinloy.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04...

Most of the world’s foreign aid comes from governments, not philanthropic foundations

The IFRC condemns the killing of eight Palestine Red Crescent Society medics in Gaza. We are heartbroken. These dedicated humanitarians, killed while responding to the wounded, should have been protected. We mourn their loss and stand with the Palestine Red Crescent. Full statement: bit.ly/427LXxp

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

"An American surgeon who's been working in two Gaza hospitals for the past three weeks has said that wounded Palestinian patients have died because of the lack of equipment and supplies." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Was speaking with a USAID person yesterday explaining how at any other time countless phone lines wld be buzzing, working groups stood up, go-teams and aid being dispatched to after the Myanmar quake. Now ... nothing.

Healthcare workers save lives: they are not part of the fight. Respecting and protecting them is a legal and moral obligation for all parties to armed conflicts—no exceptions.

From 2019: Quake-prone Myanmar leads the way in seismic monitoring Myanmar is at the "forefront of seismic monitoring in southeast Asia — and is revealing its quake hazard and speeding up its disaster response." www.preventionweb.net/news/quake-p...

USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Top Trump official tasked with dismantling USAID is out abcnews.go.com/US/top-trump...

What’s shaping aid policy in 2025 - @irwinloy.bsky.social & @willrworley.bsky.social ▪️Fractured multilaterism, unmet promises, funding cuts ▪️Trump-fulled volatility, reduced U.S. influence ▪️Attacks on aid workers ▪️More mutual aid ▪️Climate crisis www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

The war in Sudan is a catastrophic "war on people," @doctorswithoutborders.org Secretary General Christopher Lockyear tells the UN Security Council, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver lifesaving aid: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-b...

The UN has so far verified the killing of at least 111 civilians since last Thursday. "Many of the cases were summary executions and appeared to have been carried out on a sectarian basis, with predominantly Alawite areas targeted in particular, he added." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why the US aid defunding crisis threatens to trigger a full collapse for crucial humanitarian data: ⬇️

The Trump administration is canceling 83% of programs at the US Agency for International Development and intends to fold the remaining programs under the State Department, Rubio says in a post from his personal X account

The Times obtained a recording of a meeting of U.S. health and security experts and Embassy staff, who described how the Trump aid freeze means that there is limited disease surveillance or contact tracing in Uganda's growing Ebola outbreak. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...

"I’ll also say that while Ukraine is absolutely one of the biggest current conflicts, it’s not the only one. Violence continues in many places including Myanmar, Palestine, Sudan, and Democratic Republic of Congo. Political and media attention to conflicts remains inconsistent."

Tom Hart is the President & CEO of InterAction, the U.S.-based “voice of the NGO community”.

"One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade...The programs were cut anyway." - Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Horrific testimony from #Sudan, where armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including infants as young as one, amid the nationwide conflict rippling the country. UNICEF continues to call for urgent international efforts to protect and support children www.unicef.org/press-releas...

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

These community-led organizations are scrambling to make sense of the chaos that is following the initial order to halt their life-saving work. We should all be furious — furious that we are once again staring down the very real possibility of a global AIDS pandemic. 2/3

Every year, Dr Leslie Shanks (former medical director of @msf.org Holland) does a lecture in my class about humanitarian emergencies. She lists health priorities in refugee settings. Every year, we discuss how high priority measles vaccination is. It spreads so quickly. And yet is easy to prevent.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

I was just informed that our RCT in Bangladesh has been terminated mid-way. The project we were evaluating was helping to build resilience by forming farmer groups in 225 villages and transferring critical knowledge on smart agriculture practices in areas highly affected by climate change.

AIDS once wiped out an entire generation, and now with the ruthless execution of U.S. executive orders, once more, we are condemning people to die. Some of our Stephen Lewis Foundation partners rely on U.S. funding for over 75% of their budgets. 1/3

"Grievances in society are one of the significant contributors to deteriorating social cohesion. The grievances arising from the political context demonstrate a feeling of political unrest and populism." www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...

International Rescue Committee (@rescueorg.bsky.social) cutting thousands of staff after US aid freeze - @irwinloy.bsky.social ▪️Furloughs underway at the New York based, 91-year old organization. ▪️IRC was in fiscal crisis ▪️Leadership taking 20% pay cut www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/02...

www.hrw.org/news/2025/02... Outgoing Exec Dir. @tiranahassan.bsky.social was appointed in 2023 "Her departure reflects differing perspectives from those of the Board, with regard to the leadership’s relationship with the Board, & the role of the Board in discharging its fiduciary responsibilities.

The @newhumanitarian.bsky.social writes about ▪️War in Sudan ▪️Instability in Sudan, Somalia & Ethiopia ▪️Palestine ▪️Syria ▪️Myanmar ▪️Haiti ▪️Needs in Burkina Fast, Mali & Niger ▪️Afghanistan ▪️D R Congo ▪️Yemen ▪️Ukraine ▪️Vanuatu ▪️Migration in the Americas www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...