Former UN relief chief Martin Griffiths on genocide in Gaza + implications for humanitarians: "In the face of genocide... the job of enforcing humanitarian law cannot remain detached or siloed from humanitarian action itself," he (co-)writes: www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/it-...

Let this month be a reminder not just of how far we’ve come, but of what we must now defend – openly, actively and without apology. genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...

"I was forced to receive the implant by the doctor.” Stigmatised for the perception of having too many children, Rohingya women are forced to use contraception in Bangladesh refugee camps: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

IOM being IOM: The Trump administration has hired the International Organization for Migration for its "self-deportation" program. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Taking part in Israeli plans to enforce military-controlled aid in Gaza would implicate the 🇺🇳UN in atrocity crimes and genocide risks, an internal UN briefing warns. It may also set a precedent of “total control” likely to be copied by other countries: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/05...

Humanitarian blurred lines: Former WFP chief David Beasley has a new role advising a firm led by ex-military and CIA members. Fogbow was involved in that US military-run Gaza aid pier. Q: What's the next step here for Fogbow x Beasley in Gaza? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

Once again, Myanmar has fallen off the int'l radar again less than 4 weeks after the worst quake in >100 years hit. So thank you The New Humanitarian for this piece on what's happening in Sagaing, only 15km from epicentre but where needs are still high. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

🔥 Hot take: Maybe the humanitarian reset is going exactly according to plan. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

"Here’s the uncomfortable truth: If your humanitarian mission dies when the money dries up, it was never a mission, it was a business." So many strong lines in the piece. @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

Controversial take - well structured digital nomad visas buffeted by strong housing policies are an acceptable counterpoint to highly skilled worker visas that have been skimming off the best trained and most qualified workers from the global majority for generations.

In the first quarter of 2025, hundreds of cooperation and humanitarian aid projects came to a sudden end. How can ethics be ensured in the closure of a humanitarian project, even when it occurs unexpectedly? #humanitarianethics

We enter a data desert: the USG shutters key collecting/analytic efforts like FEWSNET, terminates efforts to improve data-reinforced decision making. The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Humanitarian aid’s extreme donor dependency problem in five charts - superb bit of number crunching by @odi.global's Mike Pearson www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

Does reading make your eyes hurt? On the TNH podcast feed, @tammam.bsky.social reads his essay, "Why reform isn’t enough," accompanied by a soothing score. open.spotify.com/episode/2hs7...

“Who we are”: The International Rescue Committee and others are wiping DEI-related content from their websites. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

The International Rescue Committee is laying off and furloughing thousands of staff – one organisation among many amid Trump’s aid freeze. A few notes: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/02...

🗣️ “We keep fixing that hole, but the water pressure keeps building.” Thoughts on aid dependency and reforms amid the Trump chaos, from an NGO head who once relied on aid: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

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🗣️ “A big wake-up call." Frontline local aid groups are scrambling to move forward after Trump’s US aid freeze – keenly aware that emergencies are deepening in their backyards, and that help is not on the way. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

"We, for the first time in our history, will have to suspend ongoing and urgent humanitarian work for hundreds of thousands of people in nearly 20 countries," @nrc-global.bsky.social says: www.nrc.no/news/2025/fe...

UNHCR's new advice to refugees waiting in Indonesia after Trump suspends the US refugee admissions program: "UNHCR advises... not to make any major life changes based on anticipated resettlement." help.unhcr.org/indonesia/20...

The Trump machinery understands this simple logic: A clear narrative can be more persuasive than data; a good story, repeated often, beats a few facts. What story will humanitarians tell in a Trump world? ✍️ www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

This seems like a good candidate for a name change.

Patience Uwezo is mother of 3 living in Goma. Since 18 January her family has taken in two more families, adding 7 people, including a pregnant woman, to their household. “It’s a delicate situation. It’s not easy to feed a bunch of people when there’s no money in circulation because of the war.”

🗣️ Some aid groups are taking a calculated risk with Trump's aid freeze – continuing programmes, despite stop-work orders: “We accepted the risk: Simply, we cannot stop.” A look at how frontline local aid groups are navigating this: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/01...

Aid groups in Haiti are increasingly being perceived as protecting gangs and targeted by the police and self-defence groups. My latest for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/20...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

American humanitarian NGOs and staff: Is it your mission to advance US interests? Is China your adversary? This InterAction statement is saying a lot on your behalf: www.interaction.org/statement/in...

Yes governments: step up w real funding alternatives to US aid. Also let us reflect on places like the Sahel where displacement versus aid funding boggles the mind. Fund the Sahel people's response & people's responses everywhere and also witness that humanitarian response is NOT captured by the US.

This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.” “A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”

As a Canadian who loves hockey, this is cool. As an expert in sustainable urbanism working hard to mitigate the #ClimateCrisis characterized by increasingly unpredictable extreme weather conditions, this is horrifying and a sign of our collective failure.

📊 Is now a bad time for a data dump on the humanitarian system’s dependence on US funding? #Trump @newhumanitarian.bsky.social ➡️ www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

Here’s my column on Meta’s black queer AI character Liv and the crappification of the internet: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Turkey is now allowing one family member to visit and return, three times over a six month period. This is good policy 👏

The UN needs to tune in to the new season in Damascus and replace its leadership. aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/01/0...

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The High Cost of Built Parking "Cost to build Metro Vancouver parking stall reaches $230,000, finds report" as told by @stefanlabbe.bsky.social www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/c...

So happy to be on this stories that still matter in 2025 list by @thenewhumanity.bsky.social with @rbkhoury.bsky.social @irwinloy.bsky.social is right when he says actors in the Global South are not waiting for international answers on localization. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...

Reflections from Syria. Very briefly, for now. Lots more to come in the days/weeks ahead. Three things are happening at once: 1/ The joy, relief, and miracle of it all. 2/ The huge grief and horror.  3/ The uncertainty, complexity, and huge work ahead.

New @msf.ca report with carefully chosen language on genocide: "What our medical teams have witnessed... is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organisations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza." www.msf.org/msf-report-e...

Tech values x humanitarian principles: OpenAI touts its partnerships with non-profits including aid groups. It also partners with a US weapons startup in what looks to be part of a swift policy pivot on weapons, military, and warfare. www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...

My colleagues found that HTS, despite being named a terrorist organisation by several Western nations, has demonstrated an ability to manage complex urban planning. Some grounds for cautious optimism about the massive rebuilding task facing Syria www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/ret...

A rare @newhumanitarian.bsky.social editorial: In World War II, humanitarians' diplomacy did nothing to stop mass murder. Today, being silent hasn’t achieved anything for aid or for the people of Gaza. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/20...

Turkish FM Hakan Fidan, speaking on Syria at Doha Forum: "[Since] 2016, the regime was running on a high adrenaline. They didn’t care about their problems, their institutional incapacity, and the other issues."

For a few days in March, a patchwork system to get food into north Gaza was working. Then, the killings started. This @newhumanitarian.bsky.social investigation shows how the Israeli military disrupted humanitarian efforts intended to prevent starvation. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

I keep saying i'm korean but it's moments like this that remind me im a korean american. I simply have no idea what the fuck is happening here