The UN agency started offering larger cash grants as an alternative to prison. When that didn’t work, it revised down the targets of the scheme.

Social media has turned war into a daily feed. It documents, mobilises, and quietly wounds us all.

M23 rebels detain a man suspected of affiliation to pro-government militias in this illustration by an artist whose name has been withheld for security reasons.

As deprivation and violence follow Rasha and her family south, they hope for a true peace and an end to Israeli control over their lives.

Not for nothing is Sudan cited as “ the worst humanitarian crisis in the world ”. The data is difficult to ascertain, but the war is now deemed responsible for the deaths of up to 150,000 people in ...

Suzanna Tkalec has praised Israeli authorities while presiding over a deteriorating humanitarian system in Gaza.

US President Donald Trump presented a controversial 20-point plan to end Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip during a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 29 September. At ...

That obligation – felt by many African diaspora communities – is a crucial lifeline for families in Somalia struggling with the impact of conflict, repeated climate disasters, and a fragile ...

Civil society movements are carrying the mantle of humanitarian values that national and global institutions have all too willingly abandoned.

What are humanitarians to take away? Here are a few suggestions: ...

Humanitarian aid is not neutral. It never has been. From Palestine to Sudan to Haiti and across much of the world – especially in countries living with the legacy of colonisation – aid has been ...

The goal of making it possible for the Rohingya to return home to Myanmar will remain distant until their security and rights are guaranteed.