Laila Begum knows justice won’t restore what she has lost but struggles to understand why it can’t help her return home with ...

Testimony from migrant and refugee victims in the El Hishri case exposes the links between detention crimes in Libya and ...

There were mixed views on engagement, but universal calls for the rights, lives, and dreams of women and girls to be ...

Four out of five households in the Gaza Strip are facing critical or catastrophic living conditions in their current shelters ...

Cuts to USAID, which ended some 83% of the agency's programmes worldwide, have severely disrupted violence prevention and ...

On World Humanitarian Day, is the UN ready to re-evaluate its approach and fully commit to protecting those who risk their ...

That struggle has become all the harder as the impact of the war in the Gulf – thousands of kilometres away – ripples through ...

Demonstrators march in London to draw attention to Sudan and call for more effort from the international community to end the war. The UK government has positioned itself as a leading international ...

Welcome to the first edition of The New Humanitarian’s What we’ve been reading list. This is a collection of some of the fiction and nonfiction related (sometimes loosely) to our daily work that our ...

“We didn’t bring enough attention to it because it felt like doing so would diminish what was being done by the enemy.” You’ve heard it before. Women and girls pay a heavy price during humanitarian ...

The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has yet to reach its peak, but treatment centres are already at saturation point, with health officials warning that far ...

In May 2016, I stood in Istanbul as head of the secretariat of the World Humanitarian Summit. It was an ambitious attempt to bring together different corners of the aid world to build a new agenda for ...