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13/09/2025

"We cling to a thin thread of hope that the war will end, that this genocide chasing us everywhere will stop. But the news we receive melts away what remains of this hope."
Rasha Abou Jalal on life in Gaza City as Israel's military presses ever closer: https://buff.ly/cEwz3fu

12/09/2025

The UN’s support programmes for survivors of s*xual abuse by its own peacekeepers in the Central African Republic have failed to meet the needs of those affected, according to an internal audit.

Projects were poorly designed, lacked oversight, and failed to consult survivors in advance.
https://buff.ly/FfwSFDW

12/09/2025

Nearly a decade after the peace agreement, Colombia still struggles to overcome the impact of its armed conflict. Don't miss the new story of our series “Colombians fighting for their own peace” about former military officers who started a foundation to redress their victims.
https://buff.ly/QXvjdRO

Communities on the front lines are already reshaping how crises are met. What would it take for the humanitarian system ...
11/09/2025

Communities on the front lines are already reshaping how crises are met. What would it take for the humanitarian system to catch up? On September 25, 9.45-11am ET, be part of the conversation as The New Humanitarian and Refugees International bring Remaking Humanitarianism: Dispatches from the Future to UNGA. Register to join us online.

At UNGA 80, join us as we spotlight community-driven responses reshaping humanitarian action and what must change.

From her experience working in a hospital under gang attack to her forced exile to the United States, a Haitian doctor g...
11/09/2025

From her experience working in a hospital under gang attack to her forced exile to the United States, a Haitian doctor gives her personal account of the impact of violence on her country’s collapsing health system. ⬇️

A Haitian doctor who survived an attack on her hospital gives a personal account of the impact of gang violence on the healthcare system and beyond.

11/09/2025

Drones firing randomly to cause panic. Stories of exploding remote-controlled vehicles that level entire city blocks. Ruptured sewage lines flooding tents. Renewed siege amid starvation. The looming possibility of permanent displacement.

This is life in Gaza City today: ⬇️ https://buff.ly/cEwz3fu

10/09/2025

Audit delivers damning verdict on UN support for CAR peacekeeper s*x abuse survivors

The UN’s internal watchdog found that support programmes were poorly designed and inadequately implemented.

Read more: https://buff.ly/FfwSFDW

10/09/2025

“We’re here to offer healing to people we wronged and to build peace,” said a former soldier charged with targeted killings during Colombia's armed conflict.

Read our report on how his foundation tries to rebuild trust with his victims’ community.
https://buff.ly/QXvjdRO

In Haiti, hospitals and health workers are targeted by gangs, and in Port-au-Prince about 40% of in-patient health struc...
09/09/2025

In Haiti, hospitals and health workers are targeted by gangs, and in Port-au-Prince about 40% of in-patient health structures have been forced to close. A Haitian doctor writes about the challenges caregivers and their patients are confronted with daily.

A Haitian doctor who survived an attack on her hospital gives a personal account of the impact of gang violence on the healthcare system and beyond.

“What does that mean for the functioning of an international system at a governmental level, but also just for individua...
09/09/2025

“What does that mean for the functioning of an international system at a governmental level, but also just for individuals who live in this world to know that we are entering a period, an era, in which that slow and steady progress can’t be guaranteed.”

Listen to Mark Leon Goldberg on our latest episode of about whether it’s high time we reexamine the way liberalism has been practiced at institutions like the UN.

Tammam Aloudat and the hosts of To Save Us From Hell discuss the global rise in illiberalism – and whether the way liberalism has been practised needs to be re-examined.

09/09/2025

"We follow the developments of the Israeli invasion of Gaza City and the army’s attempts to force us southward. Most of us here refuse to comply... This is our land. We were born here, and here we will endure."

Read Rasha Abou Jalal's diary from Gaza City: ⬇️ https://buff.ly/cEwz3fu

As of November 2024, over 4,000 ex-Boko Haram fighters had joined the country’s three formal Disarmament, Demobilisation...
09/09/2025

As of November 2024, over 4,000 ex-Boko Haram fighters had joined the country’s three formal Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) centres. However, all the facilities struggle with overcrowding, limited resources, and insufficient staff, undermining the efforts to provide the care and mediation needed for safe reintegration.

It’s tempting to view reintegration as a soft issue, secondary to military victories or international aid. But it’s the most strategic battle of all.

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The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) was founded by the United Nations in 1995, in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, out of the conviction that objective on-the-ground reporting of humanitarian crises could help mitigate or even prevent future disasters of that magnitude.

Almost twenty years later, we became an independent non-profit news organisation, allowing us to cast a more critical eye over the multi-billion-dollar emergency aid industry and draw attention to its failures at a time of unprecedented humanitarian need. As digital disinformation went global, and mainstream media retreated from many international crisis zones, our field-based, high-quality journalism filled even more of a gap. Today, we are one of only a handful of newsrooms world-wide specialized in covering crises and disasters – and in holding the aid industry accountable.

In 2019, we changed our name to The New Humanitarian to signal our move from UN project to independent newsroom and our role chronicling the changing nature of – and response to – humanitarian crises.

Throughout our journey, we have remained true to our mission to inform crisis prevention and response by amplifying the voices of those most affected; shining a light on forgotten crises; and resisting superficial, sensational narratives about the crises of our time.