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The US has supported a Saudi-led military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A Senate vote could end what a human rights scholar says is US complicity in genocide.
Trump and other leaders use the word ‘crisis’ to claim there’s an emergency that demands urgent action. A leadership expert explains how to evaluate those claims.
For decades, international law did not allow one country to attack another that was using chemical weapons on its own people without UN approval. That’s changed, which means trouble for Syria.
The Obama and Trump administrations have supported a military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A human rights scholar says the US is complicit in genocide.
One of the world’s worst refugee crises is still unfolding, and conditions on the ground have barely improved.
Yemen’s civil war is a stew of local and foreign interests, from Washington, Saudi Arabia to Iran. And the latest battle may cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, if not millions.
Survival sex – the exchange of sexual favours for aid packets – happens in refugee camps everywhere. Victims are not protected by international human rights law.
From California’s fires to the Rohingya, headlines can be overwhelming these days. But that doesn’t mean we should neglect so-called ‘silent crises,’ which can quickly erupt into global disasters.
Religious values, deeply rooted in texts, serve as an important motivator for giving. Religious Americans volunteer more, give more, and give more often.
When floods hit the toe of Italy, children were sent away, often for years.
One of the worst humanitarian disasters in decades is well underway in East Africa.
There appears to be a fundamental mismatch between politicians and clinicians views of the crisis, so here are the facts.
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Department of Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Migration and Director of Global Institute of Emerging Human Mobilities (GIEHM), University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Rrofessor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
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Researcher in disaster preparedness, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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