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A group of nations is pushing for justice and accountability in Palestine. Can their effort help bring an end to the impunity of powerful states?
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Can the Global South salvage international law?
A group of nations is pushing for justice and accountability in Palestine. Can their effort help bring an end to the impunity of powerful states?
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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A group of nations is pushing for justice and accountability in Palestine. Can their effort help bring an end to the impunity of powerful states?
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Members of Minnesota’s Somali community – a state Trump singled out in a recent White House speech, where he accused Somalis of contributing nothing and said he does not “want them in our country” – say fear and anxiety are now widespread among both refugees and US citizens.
People flee DR Congo fighting one day after peace deal signed in Washington
Hundreds driven into Rwanda as M23 militia battles Congolese army and Burundian soldiers for border town of Kamanyola
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December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Members of Minnesota’s Somali community – a state Trump singled out in a recent White House speech, where he accused Somalis of contributing nothing and said he does not “want them in our country” – say fear and anxiety are now widespread among both refugees and US citizens.
What’s a priority, what’s not, who’s left out, and why Trump gets a nod: Behind the numbers of next year’s humanitarian response plans: ⬇️
Five takeaways from the UN’s aid plans for 2026
What’s a priority, what’s not, who’s left out, and why Trump gets a nod: Behind the numbers of next year’s humanitarian response plans.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What’s a priority, what’s not, who’s left out, and why Trump gets a nod: Behind the numbers of next year’s humanitarian response plans: ⬇️
Although the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) officially opened for business at COP30, it remains significantly underfunded. The Fund has just $431.52 million. But campaigners say billions are needed.
Three COP30 takeaways for humanitarians
It may be no surprise, but the summit in the Amazon made little to no headway on adaptation and loss and damage. The consequences could be disastrous.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Although the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) officially opened for business at COP30, it remains significantly underfunded. The Fund has just $431.52 million. But campaigners say billions are needed.
M23 occupation has had a devastating effect on communities in eastern DR Congo. But in cities like Uvira, civilians face a different threat: pro-government militias who claim to be fighting the rebels.
In DR Congo’s Uvira, pro-government militia actions show abuses aren’t just an M23 problem
Residents fear the Rwanda-backed rebels, but also the armed groups tasked with defending the city.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
M23 occupation has had a devastating effect on communities in eastern DR Congo. But in cities like Uvira, civilians face a different threat: pro-government militias who claim to be fighting the rebels.
Asia’s deadly rains, Haiti’s election plan, and Trump’s sycophantic peace prize: The Cheat Sheet
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues. ⬇️
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A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues. ⬇️
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Asia’s deadly rains, Haiti’s election plan, and Trump’s sycophantic peace prize: The Cheat Sheet
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues. ⬇️
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A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues. ⬇️
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📰 The new Inklings newsletter: Notes on how aid works, from @newhumanitarian’s policy desk. Sign up here ⬇️
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December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📰 The new Inklings newsletter: Notes on how aid works, from @newhumanitarian’s policy desk. Sign up here ⬇️
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Read our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. ⬇️
Asia’s deadly rains, Haiti’s election plan, and Trump’s sycophantic peace prize: The Cheat Sheet
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Read our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. ⬇️
🗞️ In the latest Inklings aid policy newsletter: What is special leave with full pay and how can we get on it?
Election? Not quite. What today’s UN leadership vacancies say about the system
Notes on aid: The politics and horse-trading behind UN leadership races, more aid cuts, and what is special leave with full pay?
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December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🗞️ In the latest Inklings aid policy newsletter: What is special leave with full pay and how can we get on it?
New investigation: The Egyptian government has sharply escalated deportations of Sudanese refugees, even as war worsens across the border. Through leaked documents and extensive interviews, we examine how the system operates and how UNHCR has failed to protect those affected. buff.ly/jkkaCkg
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
New investigation: The Egyptian government has sharply escalated deportations of Sudanese refugees, even as war worsens across the border. Through leaked documents and extensive interviews, we examine how the system operates and how UNHCR has failed to protect those affected. buff.ly/jkkaCkg
“You have this whole mosaic of violent people using lethal force…it's not predictable at all,” said an observer on Haiti´s new Gang-Suppression Force. In this in-depth report we look at the many concerns the new foreign force has risen.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“You have this whole mosaic of violent people using lethal force…it's not predictable at all,” said an observer on Haiti´s new Gang-Suppression Force. In this in-depth report we look at the many concerns the new foreign force has risen.
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“As a cisgender heterosexual man, if I was to go and pretend to speak on behalf of all women, I would be rightly ridiculed and rejected. But for someone who's never been in the experience or positionality of a displaced person to go and speak on their behalf and be the person who represents them…🧵
Rethinking Humanitarianism | Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief
On the podcast: The race to lead the UN refugee agency, how to make the selection more transparent, and what refugees want from a new UNHCR boss.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“As a cisgender heterosexual man, if I was to go and pretend to speak on behalf of all women, I would be rightly ridiculed and rejected. But for someone who's never been in the experience or positionality of a displaced person to go and speak on their behalf and be the person who represents them…🧵
Climate change demands urgency now, but the UN Climate process is excruciatingly incremental. Everyone knows that one, but what about the other contradictions bedevilling the COP? Are there any lessons to be learned from the decline of the aid budgets and humanitarian law? ⬇️
COP30 Editor’s take: Why climate policy needs to move beyond consensus
Climate change is too time-sensitive to be left to incrementalism. That’s why the main process for dealing with it needs a radical rethink.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Climate change demands urgency now, but the UN Climate process is excruciatingly incremental. Everyone knows that one, but what about the other contradictions bedevilling the COP? Are there any lessons to be learned from the decline of the aid budgets and humanitarian law? ⬇️
Last year, an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt exposed the Egyptian government’s covert mass deportations of Sudanese refugees fleeing one of the world’s worst conflicts and humanitarian crises. 🧵
EXCLUSIVE: Egypt ramps up Sudanese refugee deportations with little UNHCR pushback
Critics say the UN has failed to mount a sustained public challenge to an unprecedented crackdown.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Last year, an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt exposed the Egyptian government’s covert mass deportations of Sudanese refugees fleeing one of the world’s worst conflicts and humanitarian crises. 🧵
The rate of GBVF in South Africa is staggering. Intimate partner femicide is almost five times the world average.
South Africa finally declares GBV a national disaster
Recent killings have sharpened public anger, with women demanding concrete steps to ease the fear they live with.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The rate of GBVF in South Africa is staggering. Intimate partner femicide is almost five times the world average.
A UN-backed team investigating alleged war crimes in Myanmar is at risk of losing more than a third of its people to looming funding shortfalls, in what would be a heavy blow to hopes of holding the accused to account.
UN cuts put Myanmar war crimes probe at risk
Whole units investigating crimes against women and children could be axed, even as violent acts of impunity are on the rise in the country.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A UN-backed team investigating alleged war crimes in Myanmar is at risk of losing more than a third of its people to looming funding shortfalls, in what would be a heavy blow to hopes of holding the accused to account.
Will Haiti's new anti-gang force (GSD( avoid the mistake of the previous foreign mission? How will it interact with controversial private military contractor Erik Prince´s drone operations in the country? To find out more read this briefing.
Haiti in-depth: The new Gang Suppression Force and what it means for Haitians
Observers fear the anti-gang mission will repeat the mistakes of the previous foreign intervention and could throw more fuel on the fire.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Will Haiti's new anti-gang force (GSD( avoid the mistake of the previous foreign mission? How will it interact with controversial private military contractor Erik Prince´s drone operations in the country? To find out more read this briefing.
Trump’s moves are only the latest additions to the litany of restrictions confronting Afghan migrants and asylum seekers around the world.
As the US suspends visas, an in-depth look at the global Afghan refugee crisis
Trump’s moves are only the latest additions to the litany of restrictions confronting Afghan migrants and asylum seekers around the world.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Trump’s moves are only the latest additions to the litany of restrictions confronting Afghan migrants and asylum seekers around the world.
🗣️ “If we truly listened to what children and their caregivers consistently tell us, then education would be front and centre in any humanitarian response.”
Who decides what’s worth saving? An argument for prioritising education in humanitarian action: ⬇️
Who decides what’s worth saving? An argument for prioritising education in humanitarian action: ⬇️
In an era of aid cuts, kids and caretakers are clear about what to save
Education could be drastically cut in 2026 response plans. But caregivers and kids say it’s their top priority.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🗣️ “If we truly listened to what children and their caregivers consistently tell us, then education would be front and centre in any humanitarian response.”
Who decides what’s worth saving? An argument for prioritising education in humanitarian action: ⬇️
Who decides what’s worth saving? An argument for prioritising education in humanitarian action: ⬇️
M23 rebels aren’t in Uvira – but Congolese living there still feel under siege. The threat? The pro-government militias meant to protect them. Read our latest for more: ⬇️ buff.ly/hUlfwJy
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
M23 rebels aren’t in Uvira – but Congolese living there still feel under siege. The threat? The pro-government militias meant to protect them. Read our latest for more: ⬇️ buff.ly/hUlfwJy
“It still remains a very opaque process, and this is why we're hoping..to bring some transparency to the process.” Hourie Tafech of @refugeesinternational.org speaks with @tammam.bsky.social about new public forums of potential UN refugee chief candidates. #RethinkingHumanitarianism
Rethinking Humanitarianism | Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief
On the podcast: The race to lead the UN refugee agency, how to make the selection more transparent, and what refugees want from a new UNHCR boss.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“It still remains a very opaque process, and this is why we're hoping..to bring some transparency to the process.” Hourie Tafech of @refugeesinternational.org speaks with @tammam.bsky.social about new public forums of potential UN refugee chief candidates. #RethinkingHumanitarianism
"I don’t know when the bombings will truly stop. But I do know: Families will eat today. A few more loaves will be baked. Journalists will keep telling the truth."
Journalist Mohamed al-Astal on the ceasefire in Gaza and the new roles he's had to assume:
Journalist Mohamed al-Astal on the ceasefire in Gaza and the new roles he's had to assume:
Journalist and aid worker: How Israel’s starvation of Gaza forced me to be both
Israel’s restriction of food – even after the ceasefire – has forced Mohamed al-Astal to take on a dual role as someone who both reports and helps.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"I don’t know when the bombings will truly stop. But I do know: Families will eat today. A few more loaves will be baked. Journalists will keep telling the truth."
Journalist Mohamed al-Astal on the ceasefire in Gaza and the new roles he's had to assume:
Journalist Mohamed al-Astal on the ceasefire in Gaza and the new roles he's had to assume:
Women and girls fleeing El Fasher say RSF fighters subjected them to systematic sexual violence as they tried to escape the Sudanese city last month.
Survivors described days-long assaults followed by exorbitant ransom demands.
Our investigation: ⬇️
Survivors described days-long assaults followed by exorbitant ransom demands.
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Women and girls fleeing El Fasher describe widespread RSF sexual violence
The crimes fit into a pattern of the United Arab Emirates-backed paramilitary group using rape as a tool of war.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Women and girls fleeing El Fasher say RSF fighters subjected them to systematic sexual violence as they tried to escape the Sudanese city last month.
Survivors described days-long assaults followed by exorbitant ransom demands.
Our investigation: ⬇️
Survivors described days-long assaults followed by exorbitant ransom demands.
Our investigation: ⬇️
🗣️ “Is the goal to keep people alive, or to help them live dignified lives?”
Education could be drastically cut in 2026 humanitarian response plans. But kids say it’s their top priority: ⬇️
Education could be drastically cut in 2026 humanitarian response plans. But kids say it’s their top priority: ⬇️
In an era of aid cuts, kids and caretakers are clear about what to save
Education could be drastically cut in 2026 response plans. But caregivers and kids say it’s their top priority.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🗣️ “Is the goal to keep people alive, or to help them live dignified lives?”
Education could be drastically cut in 2026 humanitarian response plans. But kids say it’s their top priority: ⬇️
Education could be drastically cut in 2026 humanitarian response plans. But kids say it’s their top priority: ⬇️
🚨 🇸🇩 NEW: We’ve uncovered harrowing testimonies from women and girls who fled El Fasher – describing widespread sexual violence by the UAE-backed paramilitary group.
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Women and girls fleeing El Fasher describe widespread RSF sexual violence
The crimes fit into a pattern of the United Arab Emirates-backed paramilitary group using rape as a tool of war.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨 🇸🇩 NEW: We’ve uncovered harrowing testimonies from women and girls who fled El Fasher – describing widespread sexual violence by the UAE-backed paramilitary group.
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