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Reduction in humanitarian aid globally offers opportunities to address the power imbalances on which data-driven humanitarianism is built.
Lessons from firms who’ve supported other causes.
Canadians should demand greater accountability from their governments to reduce the need for last-minute humanitarian efforts in the face of climate-related disasters in their communities.
Immigration policy is so highly politicised that the South African government seems afraid to move.
The treatment of Ukrainian refugees exposes a humanitarian double standard that has channelled vital funding away from equally deserving crises.
The window of survival after an earthquake is narrow and there are three top priorities for aid workers.
A scholar of humanitarianism sums up what she saw on the ground during a five-week research trip to Poznań, Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow and several smaller cities along the Poland-Ukraine border.
A true African poet, Don Mattera was at the centre of public life, an advocate for change and an enemy of elitism.
Uninvited and inexperienced visitors arriving with good ideas and wads of cash can take time and energy away from what displaced Ukrainians want and need.
The Ukrainian crisis is probably the biggest crowdsourced humanitarian aid operation ever undertaken.
The International Olympic Committee oversees several humanitarian initiatives. But it avoids letting human rights concerns interfere with the Games, even in countries with rampant violations.
The producers are recasting the show as a documentary. The original version would have done more harm than good for the causes being showcased, two scholars argue.
For International Day of Charity on Sept. 5, a history of how the Christian Herald mobilized Americans in the late 19th century to give millions for the relief of global suffering.
Meet the unsung aid workers who put their lives on the line during war and natural disaster to make sure the dead are treated with respect – and that their grieving families get closure.
Financial support for refugees is underpinned by conditions that can exclude those who want to live as independently as possible.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Senior Researcher, Human Rights Center, Eurac Research
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Associate Professor of Religion, Tufts University
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Professor of Forensic Medicine, Cairo University
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Senior Lecturer, Disaster Healthcare, University of South Wales
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Professor of Geography; Director of the Center for Refugee Studies, Indiana University
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Senior Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Visiting Scholar, University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD), University of Wollongong
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Lecturer in Geography, Swansea University
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Lecturer in Marketing, Edge Hill University
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Poet and lecturer in Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Sport Leadership; Director of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Instructor of Sport Management, University of Connecticut