In Afghanistan, abandonment is everywhere
Long before the US decided to withdraw its troops, the international community had already largely written off Afghanistan.
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New Atrocities in Tigray region of Ethiopia
“Very, Very Dire”: Reports Emerge of New Atrocities in Tigray region of Ethiopia
Humanitarian agencies and ICRC alarmed
At a closed session in New York of the UN Security Council on April 15, the UN's top humanitarian official delivered a chilling account of new atrocities and gross violations—
An interview with Karl Blanchett
Difficult times ahead for Humanitarian Geneva
This is an onsite edited excerpt of the G|O Briefing newsletter
One in thirty-three people in the world today needs financial help. That’s 12 more than the previous years. The upward trend will most likely endure, and their potential helpers are in dire financial straits themselves because of
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Accountability to affected people is not a solo act
Nick van Praag | Slow progress on accountability to affected people is a stain on all humanitarian actors.
Empowered embroiderers
"Lifting millions and millions of refugees out of poverty through work and empowering them is my dream."
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Coronavirus: Community participation and credible information: the core of any serious response
By Nick van Praag* | How will the international community, particularly in the ‘North’, ensure that the ‘others’ will also be properly supported? Crucial is to enable people to help themselves.
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Off the Radar Screen: Covid-19 and Inequality
Daniel Warner | Among the many tragedies of the coronavirus pandemic have been startling revelations of glaring inequalities and profound systemic problems with the international relief agencies.
#0 The G|O Briefing, April 20, 2020
This is an onsite edited excerpt of the G|O Briefing newsletter
Today in The Geneva Observer, with his op-ed "Off the Radar Screen: Covid-19 and inequality," foreign policy expert and G|O contributor Daniel Warner follows up on Djemila Carron and Paul O’Keeffe’s recent tribune,
Agency vs. Agencies
This is an onsite edited excerpt of the G|O Briefing newsletter
Djemila Carron on why she is sounding the alarm now about the situation in the Kakuma refugees camp in their G|O's guest essay "Potemkin Villages and Refugees Camps during the Coronavirus Crisis."
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