UN General Assembly’s high-level week should be consequential given all that’s happening: the genocide in Gaza, spiralling emergencies, aid cuts, the crisis of trust in the UN system.
But does the rhetoric in New York match the urgency we see across the globe?
Veteran humanitarian and Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast host Tammam Aloudat has a front row view of the contrast. He recently joined the legal support boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla – a movement aimed at breaking Israel’s siege of Gaza. And this week, he’s at UNGA for the pageantry of leaders’ speeches and escalator mishaps.
“I feel humanitarianism will have to haggle with its ambivalent position, where it believes in the system, and in activism, and in delivering aid at any cost, and with the sovereignty of states,” he tells producer Levi Sharpe.
In this bonus episode from the UNGA sidelines, Sharpe and Aloudat unpack the week’s events, contrast the Gaza flotilla with the suits at UN headquarters, and discuss what it all says about where humanitarian action is heading.
Host:
Levi Sharpe, podcast producer at The New Humanitarian.
Guest:
Tammam Aloudat, CEO of The New Humanitarian, and host of the Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast.
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