In this episode, we speak with Jamila Afghani, the 2022 Laureate of the Aurora Prize For Awakening Humanity, which is a prestigious annual award conferred to grassroots human rights defenders. Jamila Afghani is a the founder of the local Afghan...
Forgive thine own-horn tooting, but we wanted to flag a new study by a team of researchers in the United Kingdom about the news consumption habits of aid workers and humanitarian professionals. The report identifies UN Dispatch as one of...
The battle for Mosul has begun. The city of 1.5 million — Iraq’s second largest — fell to ISIS in 2014. Now, a combination of Iraqi military forces, Iran-backed shiite militias, and Kurdish peshmerga are readying for an assault. They are...
(World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul) — Of the many aims of the World Humanitarian Summit, one at the top of the list is reshaping the way aid is funded and delivered. Part of this involves encouraging new actors such as the...
The numbers don’t lie. The United Nations is expecting 2016 to be the most challenging year ever for global humanitarian operations. And the two top culprits are conflicts in the Middle East and El Nino weather patterns Every December, the...
Iraq is in the midst of several overlapping crises. It’s a tinderbox that already exploded: A barbaric extremist group controls large swaths of the country; sectarian violence is on the rise; and it’s dangerously hot outside. It’s a wonder then...
Today’s map comes from a UN entity called the Central Emergency Response Fund. It shows where some $70 million of funding for humanitarian relief operations were disbursed today. These eight emergencies are not necessarily the biggest in the world...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released it’s mid-year report of the response to humanitarian emergencies around the world. Taken together, these graphics do an excellent job of telling the story of a humanitarian system under enormous...
Updates Below, with reactions from key member states South Sudan is on the verge of a famine. So why would the country expel the one UN official in charge of coordinating international aid to stave off mass starvation? The numbers...
