Today, more than 130 million people are currently in crisis and are in need of assistance of some sort. World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is held every year on 19 August to pay tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in service, and to rally support for people affected by crises around...
Ongoing fighting between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and an armed militia group called M-23 has left the African country in one of the world's largest humanitarian crises. The United Nations estimates roughly a quarter of the country faces
Humanitarian crisis amid the military coup in Niger republic; what went wrong?doi:10.1002/hsr2.2180Oduoye, Malik OlatundeUbechu, Samuel ChinonsoZafar, HabibaNoor, ZainabOyeleke, Usman AbolajiAgbeyewo, Ganiyat TemitopeHealth Science Reports
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Israel has forcibly displaced almost every Gazan from their homes; manufactured a humanitarian crisis in the territory by reducing or cutting off vital supplies and energy to all civilians; and razed or severely damaged entire residential blocks, hospitals and schools across the en...
Washington— There's currently an intense debate about what legal authorities President Biden has at his disposal to deal with the humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border, where migrant apprehensions have reached record levels in recent years. The debate escalated recently after Mr. Biden...
Welcome to year four of everything I’m reading, watching and listening to in regard to the multiple planetary crises’ we face (the polycrisis), as well as articles on important social issues, because how societies function is fundamental if we want to have a stable e...
2. What's the point of studying Disease X? As the WHO puts it, it's to "enable early cross-cutting R&D preparedness that is also relevant" for an unknowndisease. The humanitarian crisis sparked by the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was a wake up call. Despite decades of rese...
Is Foreign Aid an Ethical Issue? Foreign aid can sometimes be a controversial topic, and has drawn opposition from a range of critics. Proponents of foreign aid argue that it helps nations develop, and that it can pursue humanitarian ends, such as relieving poverty or improving public health....
The Southern Africa humanitarian crisis that came to international attention in 2002 stemmed from an expansion of existing chronic food insecurity rather than a sudden disaster. In this, it offers useful lessons for how to manage such crises, which are increasingly part of the scene in other regio...