What's behind the COP climate circus | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The UN climate summit, COP30, is getting under way in Brazil, with global temperatures rising – and global cooperation under deep strain. Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, the UN Secretary-Genera...
6 Nov 202548min
How to make people care? Emergency aid's marketing problem | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Global polls show citizens in many countries want their governments to fund humanitarian aid. But the US and other nations have gutted aid departments or shrunk budgets – with little public pushback. ...
30 Okt 202559min
The global backlash on gender rights | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The backlash against women's and LGBTIQI+ rights is growing – part of an organised movement that goes beyond one country or one president. But as Saskia Brechenmacher says on the latest episode of Ret...
15 Okt 202549min
The aid sector's LGBTQI+ blindspot | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Global funding cuts are worsening emergency aid's weaknesses when it comes to the LGBTQI+ community. The Trump administration is explicitly targeting trans people. And gender-related programming is am...
1 Okt 202545min
UNGA Event | Dispatches from the future
Remaking humanitarianism: Dispatches from the future How can we reimagine the international humanitarian system so that it builds on – rather than undermines – the response communities are already cre...
30 Sep 20251h 17min
Bonus: Rethinking UNGA | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The 80th UN General Assembly should be consequential given all that's happening: the genocide in Gaza, spiralling emergencies, aid cuts, the crisis of trust in the UN system. But does the rhetoric in ...
26 Sep 202538min
The UN's 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems | Rethinking Humanitarianism
As world leaders gather for the 80th UN General Assembly, we're digging into the past to illuminate the present. What UN reforms are needed? Historian Thant Myint-U talks about how the UN became sidet...
17 Sep 202557min
Event | What should humanitarian actors do to stop the genocide in Gaza?
As the genocide in Gaza continues, humanitarian organisations face mounting pressure and unprecedented constraints. Famine has been declared, access remains heavily restricted, and international mecha...
16 Sep 20251h 33min
