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And so, I have been learning to catch kindness in the paths I cross and the people I meet, the same way a swimmer lifts her ...

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On an early morning in February, 23-year-old Suzan Akello was found lying dead on a veranda outside a house she had visited ...

Nearly 12,000 individuals have been expelled over the past year, and families have been separated amid reports of punitive ...

Editor’s note: The Intrepid Humanitarian is an occasional series of dispatches that aims to spotlight the forgotten crises of ...

Gaza is no longer seen as an “event” requiring a reaction or a solution. It has been reclassified as a “condition” to be ...

The shift towards localisation is both necessary and overdue. For decades, donors, international NGOs, and intermediaries ...

One of the least discussed challenges in the shift towards refugee self-reliance that’s touted by development agencies is the extent of poverty within closed camp economies. This reality is often ...

A busy market in the town of Sange, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province, which has been one of the main areas of recent fighting between the national army and Rwanda-backed ...

Join us for a timely and critical conversation on the state of humanitarianism in the West Bank today. This webinar will trace how humanitarian action has evolved and how these actors operate within a ...

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