Jan 14, 2022
Millions of Afghans are struggling to survive after crucial foreign aid was halted due to the Taliban’s takeover. Images from Afghanistan show a catastrophe in a country already traumatized by decades of war. Source: A Look at Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis Foreign...
Sep 17, 2021
Thousands of mostly Haitian asylum seekers have gathered under the bridge that connects Del Rio in Texas and Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña, creating a makeshift camp with few basic services in intense heat. More than 50 Democratic lawmakers urged the Biden administration to...
Sep 16, 2021
The Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan is spurring urgent concern about the safety of data that aid groups have collected over 20 years. They have inherited databases and technology that could be used to identify people linked to previous regimes or international...
Sep 13, 2021
Opinion | An age old story: bring in your own and crush the local. In its rush to help Afghanistan, the humanitarian world risks superimposing costly, parallel systems that ignore what already exists: a functioning public health sector, Afghan NGOs waiting for...
Sep 7, 2021
Even before the quake, millions of Haitians needed urgent food aid, while the south was still rebuilding from a devastating 2016 hurricane. Source: The New Humanitarian, by Paisley Dodds and Jessica Alexander, 9/7/21 Haiti earthquake aid hampered by...
