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- Development
- Humanitarian
Aid is increasingly a placeholder for doing something when...
Using aid to project power is immoral and ineffective 21…
May 21, 2024
- Development
Foreign aid is welcome, but it shouldn’t come with...
In our needy world, compassion must be the only justification…
May 10, 2024
- Humanitarian
Twenty years of DIHAD: connecting our past to our...
Do conferences make a difference? Reflecting on two decades of…
April 23, 2024
- Humanitarian
A new humanitarian diplomacy is needed for a world...
Geopolitical shifts require new forms of problem-solving to tackle growing…
April 19, 2024
- Humanity
Hunger is an immoral accompaniment to war
Starvation and famine must not be allowed to become the…
April 12, 2024
- Humanitarian
- Writing
Why are we doing so badly in living up...
Increased suffering from the changing nature of wars necessitates re-setting…
February 19, 2024
- Humanitarian
- Writing
Humanitarians must do more and better in Sudan
The case of Sudan: if our sacred humanitarian principles stand…
January 21, 2024
- Humanitarian
A new humanitarian compact is needed for victims of...
The current humanitarian system is underfunded, overburdened, and mistrusted 10…
January 10, 2024
- Humanity
What I thought and wrote in 2023
It was an eventful 2023, and this was what I…
December 31, 2023
- Integrity
Confronting global institutional corruption
UNOPS was responsible for the biggest case of corrupt mismanagement…
December 28, 2023
- Global Health
Health systems were stalling even before Covid-19, but better...
Everyone should be entitled to universal health care but 4.5…
December 13, 2023
- Humanitarian
The IFRC needs to change. Here’s a to-do list.
Faced with unavoidable global turmoil, will the new president bask…
December 5, 2023
- Genocide
Genocidal name-calling unhelpful amid crisis in Middle East (Israel/Palestine)
Humanity dictates that we listen, empathise and help, but emotional…
December 1, 2023
- Global Health
It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture
Is it time to declare victory and downsize the huge…
December 1, 2023
- Global Health
An overheated world is bad news for our bodies
As the planet heats, billions of people risk falling out…
November 27, 2023
- War and Peace
Keep an eye on Djibouti
Djibouti must be helped to remain the calm centre…
November 3, 2023
- War and Peace
In the Israel-Gaza war, the UN must play a...
The UN’s humanitarian role is indispensable, yet why is it…
October 19, 2023
- War and Peace
War didn’t look like this when the Geneva Conventions...
Nasty urbanised wars are now the norm and there are…
October 17, 2023