'When will we be next?': A dispatch from Rafah | First Person
A Mercy Corps staff member describes life in the sliver of southern Gaza where 1.2 million people are sheltering in desperate conditions. The author's name is being withheld for safety given the ...
29 Feb 20249min
Is the Politicisation of Health Workers Getting Worse? | What's Unsaid
Medical missions are a lifeline to stressed health systems, usually in developing and post colonial states, but they can also be caught up in, and manipulated by, the politics of the powerful. Host Al...
22 Feb 202420min
Why humanitarians should care about tax justice | Rethinking Humanitarianism
They say two things in life are certain: death and taxes. But taxes – and how they're collected – are anything but certain, and certainly not fair. Every year, nearly $500 billion in tax is lost to co...
15 Feb 202458min
Double standards leave local aid workers unprotected | What's Unsaid
When danger comes, foreign aid workers are often flown out, leaving behind local staff to risk their lives. Othman Moqbel is the CEO for Action for Humanity, an international aid agency trying to prov...
8 Feb 202419min
Charting the course: Navigating 2024's humanitarian landscape | Event
Crises are mounting, and their impacts are overlapping and rippling across the globe. Emergency response has grown more complicated, and more costly. What's the way forward? Each year, The New Humanit...
1 Feb 20241h 31min
2024, another deadly migrant year? | What's Unsaid
Migration policies are making borders tougher to cross and pushing people to risk their lives along ever more dangerous routes. Is there a way to stem the rising number of migrant deaths? Eric Reidy, ...
25 Jan 202421min
How to step aside to promote change | Rethinking Humanitarianism
For as long as the international humanitarian sector has existed, its top jobs have been overwhelmingly occupied by white Western men. And yet, most of the people affected by their decisions come from...
18 Jan 202457min
Genocide or not, what difference does a word make? | What's Unsaid
*This episode was originally published on November 23, 2023. Human rights lawyer and war crimes investigator Yasmin Sooka joins host Ali Latifi in a conversation about using the word "genocide", and ...
11 Jan 202418min
