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Monday, 24 June 2019
- Feature
- Migration
- 24 June 2019
Midyear update: Syria
Hameed Marouf/UNHCR
Monday, 24 June 2019
- Feature
- Migration
- 24 June 2019
Midyear update: Climate displacement
Shafiqul Alam/TNH
Monday, 24 June 2019
- News
- Health
- 24 June 2019
How Ukraine is grappling with a rapid uptick in measles
Andrey Krepkih/UNICEF
Monday, 24 June 2019
- Analysis
- Politics and Economics
- 24 June 2019
Liberia and Sierra Leone: Different lessons in how not to deliver post-war justice
Lucinda Rouse/TNH
Monday, 24 June 2019
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 21 June 2019
Data deadlock, Myanmar failure, and persistent pirates
Mohammed Huwais/AFP

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- Feature
- Migration
- 24 June 2019
Midyear update: Syria

‘A humanitarian disaster unfolding before our eyes’
- Feature
- Migration
- 24 June 2019
Midyear update: Climate displacement

Relocation policies, peace committees, and empty villages
- News
- Health
- 24 June 2019
How Ukraine is grappling with a rapid uptick in measles

‘It’s better to prevent it now than kick yourself later.’
- Analysis
- Politics and Economics
- 24 June 2019
Liberia and Sierra Leone: Different lessons in how not to deliver post-war justice

Greater financial commitments and political reforms are needed in both countries for truth and reconciliation to work.
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 21 June 2019
Data deadlock, Myanmar failure, and persistent pirates

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
- News
- Migration
- 20 June 2019
On World Refugee Day, the challenges facing a record 25 million refugees

The political climate has hardened for those forced from their homes by conflict, with pressure increasing on many to return.
- News feature
- Migration
- 20 June 2019
European activists fight back against ‘criminalisation’ of aid for migrants and refugees

‘The atmosphere is very hostile for anyone that is trying to help.’
- News
- Health
- 19 June 2019
UN launches emergency response to contain Pakistan HIV epidemic

Hundreds of children in one district have been diagnosed with HIV, and the response is grappling with stigma and low awareness amid a wider epidemic.
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 19 June 2019
WFP accused of negligence over Uganda food aid deaths

‘I prepared it for supper… At night I started feeling a serious headache, high fever, and abdominal pain.’
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 17 June 2019
UN gives ultimatum to Yemen rebels over reports of aid theft

WFP says it will suspend food deliveries in rebel-held areas if the Houthis don’t accept anti-fraud database.

- News
- Aid and Policy
- 17 June 2019
UN gives ultimatum to Yemen rebels over reports of aid theft

WFP says it will suspend food deliveries in rebel-held areas if the Houthis don’t accept anti-fraud database.
- News feature
- Migration
- 20 June 2019
European activists fight back against ‘criminalisation’ of aid for migrants and refugees

‘The atmosphere is very hostile for anyone that is trying to help.’
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 19 June 2019
WFP accused of negligence over Uganda food aid deaths

‘I prepared it for supper… At night I started feeling a serious headache, high fever, and abdominal pain.’
- Interview
- Human Rights
- 2 August 2007
Um Muhammad al-Daraj, Iraq, “I had to forget my honour to save my husband’s life”

Mother of three Um Muhammad al-Daraj, 35, recently went through a traumatic ordeal to try to save her husband’s life. She told IRIN her husband...
- News
- Migration
- 20 June 2019
On World Refugee Day, the challenges facing a record 25 million refugees

The political climate has hardened for those forced from their homes by conflict, with pressure increasing on many to return.
- News
- Health
- 19 June 2019
UN launches emergency response to contain Pakistan HIV epidemic

Hundreds of children in one district have been diagnosed with HIV, and the response is grappling with stigma and low awareness amid a wider epidemic.
- Interview
- Aid and Policy
- 17 June 2019
Q&A | Reparations and rehabilitation – how Oxfam can build back better

‘It's not done until it really reaches the furthest outpost of the organisation.’
- News feature
- Solutions and Innovations
- 17 June 2019
A loan, not a gift: Merging business and aid in Afghanistan

‘We used to have to send patients away when we didn’t have funds to power the generator. Now that the solar system is paid off, patient care is becoming cheaper.’
- News feature
- Migration
- 6 June 2019
Biometrics: The new frontier of EU migration policy in Niger

Data privacy and civil liberty concerns are mounting over the potential for misuse of biometric information provided by migrants to the EU.
- Analysis
- Environment and Disasters
- 10 June 2019
Drought in Africa leaves 45 million in need across 14 countries

Should El Niño predictions have triggered an earlier aid response?

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