When the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, it had all the makings of a monumental catastrophe. The Secretary-General at the ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released its annual assessment of global ...

Georgina Rannard is a Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action. She has held fellowships at the Library of Congress and Yale University, and in 2015 she was the Jane Haining Humanitarian Fellow in the ...

Listeners will no doubt remember the devastating Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016. More than 28,600 people were infected, and 11,325 people... Republicans will soon control the House of Representatives, ...

Penelope is a strategy and communications professional, passionate about international affairs, human rights and democracy. With a wide range of experience in the non-profit, non-governmental and ...

We cover a lot of ground in this week’s episode. Just hours before we recorded our conversation, the ICC issued formal arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav ...

It’s a new day in Damascus. But what about New York? For the last 14 years, the United Nations’ role in Syria has been relegated to the circumscribed (but vital) task of supporting the humanitarian ...

It’s a new day in Damascus. But what about New York? For the last 14 years, the United Nations’ role... UN Syria Envoy Geir Pedersen is Suddenly the Key Diplomat Managing the International Response to ...

This special series of the Global Dispatches podcast lets experts explain how the Biden-Harris administration and new United States Congress can revive international cooperation on global health, ...

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Joanne is a freelance journalist dedicated to covering global poverty and inequality. Her work has appeared in Humanosphere, the Guardian and War is Boring ...