The State Department views a 1960s-era internationalist movement based in Havana as a Cuban communist plot to destroy America. The truth was far more nuanced.
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Researchers found that while authorities have depended on nonprofits to deal with the refugee crisis, many nonprofit leaders had little say in planning and coordination.
After a failed US intervention exposed Afghan civilians to Taliban threats, Washington is retreating from its humanitarian obligations.
Doing more with less may not be sustainable for an exhausted workforce over the long term.
There are growing signs that American civil society is becoming more vulnerable to the president’s preferences and dictates – something that happens in authoritarian countries.
Humanitarian aid is based on empathy and the recognition that everyone has a right to live with dignity.
USAID has a decades-long history of fighting smallpox, polio, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV.
The key to the for-profit company’s successful partnership with governments, international agencies and humanitarian, nongovernmental organizations is how it handled its patent.
The United States spends very little on foreign aid relative to the size of its economy.
When foreign aid stops flowing, local leaders and diaspora communities can, under certain conditions, step in.
For people without access to banks, community savings groups are a lifeline. New research suggests they’re good stewards of donors’ money, too.
The Taliban have enacted laws that violate human rights since they returned to power. But a new edict goes further.
Economic insecurity is one factor that drives populism, a former politician from Hungary writes.
When President Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2006, church figures supported him. Violent repression after the 2018 protests has soured the relationship and made clergy targets for intimidation.
The board is supposed to stop OpenAI from veering from its mission of building technology that benefits humanity.
Government sanctions against Hamas, which the US and the European Union consider a terrorist group, mean that aid groups are not able to directly work with Hamas.
The politics of delivering aid in war zones are messy, the ethics fraught and the logistics daunting. But getting everything right is essential − and in this instance could save many Gazans’ lives.
Hospitals have been destroyed, and doctors and health care staff killed. Gaza’s health services may take years to recover, warns a Palestinian health specialist.
Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
College students learn about people who have dedicated their professional lives to reducing the threat of violence – and their successes and failures.
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Professor of Restoration Ecology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida
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Professor of International Business, The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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Director, Human Rights Institute, Associate Prof. Social Work and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Connecticut
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Professor of comparitive politics, Georgetown University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Doctoral Student in Political Science, University of South Carolina
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Global Development, Seattle Pacific University
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Professor of Economic Development & Peacebuilding, University of San Diego
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Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University
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