A simulation invited CEOs and government ministers to experience what it’s like to be held up at gunpoint or taken away to be raped. Boris Baldinger/World Economic Forum
The UN secretary-general is leading a global process to reform the way aid is delivered in crisis zones. IRIN’s Managing Editor Heba Aly reflects on whether his vision, as outlined in his long-awaited report for the World Humanitarian Summit released this week, hits the right notes.
Once a very closed and guarded organisation, the International Committee of the Red Cross has in recent years begun to open up. But does this increased engagement with others threaten its much-vaunted independence? This was one of the questions put to ICRC President Peter Maurer in a brief interview with IRIN’s Managing Editor Heba Aly on the sidelines of the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, which wrapped up in Geneva yesterday.
With record numbers of people in crisis around the world, the largest push in decades is under way to reform emergency aid, culminating in a major international summit to be held in Istanbul next year. But to hear it from the head of UN relief, it doesn’t need much fundamental change.
The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) is looking for bold, new ideas for improving the international response to crises. Here are some that caught our ear...
