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The US administration assault on DEIA is an assault on the humanitarian principles of humanity and impartiality

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By Véronique Barbelet

We know that humanitarian responses are less effective when they don’t involve the participation of affected people, or don’t engage people in their own language.

We know that humanitarian responses that don’t take into account existing inequalities of gender or ethnicity end up making things worse.

We know that humanitarian responses that ignore the specific needs of the most marginalised people – invariably among those most severely affected by crises – leave them behind.

However, any effort to acknowledge or address these dynamics now finds itself squarely in the crosshairs of the new US administration’s obsessive, scorched-earth campaign to eliminate anything and everything related to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA).

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