There’s a new addition to the expanding library of books that question the effectiveness of international aid: The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? The book, by the journalist Linda ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The bloodstains are visible from space. So far, this tragedy has largely gone unnoticed in the United States — and ...

The humanitarian world emerged from the 1990s both saddened and chastened. Again and again nonprofit and UN personnel had been overwhelmed by the magnitude of particular crises -- as when 2 million ...

“The idea that we’re able to deal with the rights of women around the world by military force is not rational.” This single sentence from President Biden’s ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos on ...

It may be time to reconsider the use of such words as “humanitarian” and “humanitarianism”. There has been little of that sort evidenced in the Israel-Hamas War, marked by industrial-mechanised ...

Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly struck a note of optimism on this website earlier this year, crediting a number of companies for moving early to address the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and calling on ...

Aug. 19 is World Humanitarian Day and, as with most things related to humanitarianism, it has a tragic origin. On that day in 2003, a bomb attack killed 22 humanitarian aid workers. Five years later, ...

No matter their individual views on the subject, Americans need to understand something about immigration, says Boston College School of Social Work Assistant Professor Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, S.J.: ...

The bloodstains are visible from space. In the last weeks, the Rapid Support Forces — one party in Sudan’s years-long civil war — captured the desert city of el-Fasher after a 17-month siege. Since ...