Gen Egeland, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) earlier today Tweeted that Norway’s primer aid organization can’t continue its operations in Afghanistan without its female employees. [The Taliban recently banned women from working in...
More hunger, more displacement, more people in crisis, and a soaring price tag: Humanitarian needs and costs will once again shatter records in 2023, but available funding – and the system itself – isn’t keeping pace. Source: Soaring humanitarian costs in 2023: Key...
A year after the Taliban took power, humanitarian needs are rising even as foreign aid has dried up. During the former Islamic Republic, foreign aid grants funded 75 percent of public spending. Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the United States has provided...
Two visions are battling it out. The winner may just shape the future of humanitarian response. Source: Policymakers and racial justice activists came together to discuss decolonising aid. Here’s what happened…Behind closed doors: Views on decolonising aid, The New...
19 million people in Afghanistan will encounter “potentially life-threatening levels of hunger” from June to November of this year, while 6 million people will be under “near-famine conditions.” The lack of food will leave 1.1 million children at risk of death due to...
