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04/07/2025

If European defence is rising, so should Europe’s humanitarian preparedness. Read more: ⬇️ https://buff.ly/lcEdMbq

In a special episode of What’s Unsaid, we speak to 22-year-old Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud, who was recently able...
02/07/2025

In a special episode of What’s Unsaid, we speak to 22-year-old Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud, who was recently able to escape from Gaza.

Baroud talks about life in Gaza before 7 October 2023, when she was 20 years old, and Gaza was “so small for the hopes or the dreams” she had. With Gaza under Israeli occupation, she explains “growing up in a place full of wars is like growing up in nothing”. She shares what it felt like to watch her family home, where she lived for 20 years, be destroyed, and how it pushed her into her career. As international journalists were kept out, “we were the only ears and voice that they left in Gaza to talk about Gaza,” she says.

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What is it like reporting on and living through a genocide for nearly 20 months, and then escaping? We talk to journalist Rita Baroud.

“Stories are not neutral objects. Access is not ownership.”In his latest column, Patrick Gathara challenges extractive...
02/07/2025

“Stories are not neutral objects. Access is not ownership.”
In his latest column, Patrick Gathara challenges extractive crisis reporting and calls for journalism grounded in justice and reciprocity. ⬇️

What journalists owe to those they report on goes right to the heart of the colonial power imbalances that should weigh heavily on the profession.

In Cameroon, rising tensions triggered by climate change, armed conflict, and ecological degradation threaten both local...
02/07/2025

In Cameroon, rising tensions triggered by climate change, armed conflict, and ecological degradation threaten both local communities and the environment.

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Rising tensions triggered by climate change, armed conflict, and ecological degradation threaten both local communities and the environment.

The political assumption of peace in Europe is over. Climate-related emergencies are escalating. Humanitarians must be p...
02/07/2025

The political assumption of peace in Europe is over. Climate-related emergencies are escalating. Humanitarians must be prepared, Hugo Slim writes: ⬇️

The political assumption of peace in Europe is over. Climate-related emergencies are escalating. Humanitarians must be prepared.

Tired of the “reset”? Here are 8️⃣ opinion and think pieces on humanitarian reform that might signpost the way forward.
24/06/2025

Tired of the “reset”? Here are 8️⃣ opinion and think pieces on humanitarian reform that might signpost the way forward.

Tired of the “reset”? Here are eight opinion and think pieces on humanitarian reform that might signpost the way forward.

Read our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe: ⬇️
23/06/2025

Read our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe: ⬇️

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.

After Sudan’s army regained control of Khartoum, journalist Mohammed Amin returned back to his cityJ to document the hum...
19/06/2025

After Sudan’s army regained control of Khartoum, journalist Mohammed Amin returned back to his cityJ to document the human cost of the two-year war. Read the second of his two-part series:

Journalist Mohammed Amin returns to the Sudanese capital to document the human cost of the two-year war.

Fogbow, a for-profit US company with a mission to facilitate humanitarian access in some of the world’s most challenging...
19/06/2025

Fogbow, a for-profit US company with a mission to facilitate humanitarian access in some of the world’s most challenging environments, is coordinating food drops in South Sudan that critics say support the government’s counter-insurgency efforts against opposition militias.

The for-profit US firm is coordinating airdrops that critics say transgress humanitarian principles.

Protection is an alarming casualty of the global funding cuts that have sent shockwaves through the humanitarian system....
19/06/2025

Protection is an alarming casualty of the global funding cuts that have sent shockwaves through the humanitarian system.

Protection, gender-based violence, and child protection have been hit hardest, according to monitoring of terminated programmes. Half of women’s organisations in crises may shut down in six months, a recent survey concluded. And there are well-founded fears that the perennially underfunded protection sector could be further sidelined as money becomes scarcer.

The UN-led humanitarian “reset” process, which is coming to a head, may consolidate the protection cluster and its four specialised workstreams – drawing strong resistance.

But merely defending the status quo isn’t enough.

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Yes, protection is underfunded. But it must be radically simplified if it is to meet the needs of people facing ever-growing risks in emergencies.

The protest movement in the United States is growing, but so is the global authoritarian playbook it’s up against.Read:
19/06/2025

The protest movement in the United States is growing, but so is the global authoritarian playbook it’s up against.

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The protest movement in the United States is growing, but so is the global authoritarian playbook it’s up against.

We pay tribute to a Palestinian journalist, Hajar Harb, a valued contributor to our coverage of Gaza who recently passed...
19/06/2025

We pay tribute to a Palestinian journalist, Hajar Harb, a valued contributor to our coverage of Gaza who recently passed away.

We pay tribute to a Palestinian journalist and valued contributor to our coverage of Gaza who recently passed away.

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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.