Most of the time, to write about migration means telling the stories of people who move: those forced from their homes by natural disasters, conflict, violence, or the effects of climate change, or so fed up with limited economic opportunities, corruption, and bad governance that......
27 March, 2023The Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) concluded on Thursday with countries adopting concrete measures to implement the Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) – which aims to renew and strengthen commitments between LDCs and their development partners – marking a transformative turning point......
24 March, 2023Where’s the money? An aid summit in Brussels this week circled around a familiar riddle for the cash-strapped humanitarian sector: Who has funding, who gets it, where does it go, and how does it get there. Staged by the European Commission’s humanitarian aid department, ECHO,......
24 March, 2023Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. On our radar Hunger in drought-hit Somalia claimed 43,000 lives in 2022: study As many as 43,000 drought-related “excess deaths” may have occurred in Somalia in 2022, according to a new......
24 March, 2023As water scarcity and the potential for conflicts between countries over resources increase, the UN is urging more nations to sign up to the Water Convention, designed to reduce tensions and improve international cooperation....
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