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...
What lessons should humanitarians take away from the past 20 years in Afghanistan? Was the role of Western aid agencies helpful or hurtful? Were they impartial or complicit? Source: The New Humanitarian Podcast, with CEO and host Heba Aly, 9/15/21, Rethinking...
1) Support the initiatives led by Haitian people and groups 2) If we contribute aid to a foreign agency, demand they post their decisions and relationships with local groups 3) Solidarity, not charity 4) Address the root causes, including...
Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the...
theguardian.com, by Nick Hepworth, July 19, 2016, original The global water crisis is not driven by absolute water scarcity, but by a scarcity of governance: there’s enough water to go around, we just need to get better at managing it. To meet the sixth sustainable...
