By Deanna Alsbeti on June 20, 2022 It is imperative for regional and international actors to preserve existing humanitarian assistance for the emergency response network in the Middle East. ...
Türkiye + 3 more
Türkiye + 3 more
By Deanna Alsbeti on June 20, 2022 It is imperative for regional and international actors to preserve existing humanitarian assistance for the emergency response network in the Middle East. ...
Libya + 1 more
By Ayat Mneina on June 20, 2022 The Ukrainian refugee crisis has shone [a light] on the West’s hypocrisy and double standards when it comes to refugees originating from the Global South in comparison...
Yemen + 1 more
By Fathia Bahashwan on June 20, 2022 The repercussions of the Ukrainian crisis have further exacerbated food insecurity crisis in Yemen, as Yemen imports 40 percent of its wheat from Ukraine and...
Lebanon + 3 more
By Jasmin Lilian Diab on June 20, 2022 [UNRWA] stated that the [Russia-Ukraine] conflict has led to severe funding shortfalls in many of its core programs -- as it received only 13.5 percent of a...
By Dalia Hatuqa on November 5, 2021 In Palestine, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated many challenges women face, leading to higher levels of domestic violence, alarming rates of emotional and...
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By Colin Walch Humanitarian actors play a critical role in responding to climate-related crises, armed conflict, or a combination of both. Their response comes with an environmental cost...
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People devoted to financing water, sanitation and hygiene in developing nations worried for much of 2020. Utility customers stopped paying their water bills. Funders altered their priorities. Heads...
Kenya + 4 more
Until 2016, the agrarian residents of east Kenya’s Kitui county had never encountered a water quality monitor like Mary Musenya. Wearing a bright blue company jersey and furnished with sample bottles...
By Frederick M. Burkle “Ask a big enough question, and you need more than one discipline to answer it,” said modern dance legend Liz Lerman. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, the...
By Alexandra Zapata Hojel & Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría Background On March 8, 2020, International Women’s Day, tens of thousands of women across Mexico protested the high levels of violence against...
Statement from the Asia Program's Lucas Myers. "On Sunday, March 28th 2021, the United Nations reported that over 107 people were killed the day before by Myanmar’s military in their ongoing, brutal...
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By Wim Zwijnenburg When the dust settles after wars and armed conflicts, people are eager to rebuild their lives and livelihoods in the wake of the devastation wrought upon their country. Often one...
From August to November of 2020, Mexico's National Institute for Public Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública - INSP) led the National COVID-19 Health and Nutrition Survey (Encuesta Nacional de...
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By Madhavi Roy, Paul Shetler Fast & Vicha Adri As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths rise, women are experiencing more anxiety both during and after pregnancy. One-third of all mental...
Colombia + 6 more
In a new report from the Latin American Program, “Venezuelan Migrants under COVID-19: Managing South America’s Pandemic Amid a Migration Crisis,” Jacqueline Mazza details the ways six South American...
By Dara Carr “No single individual, discipline, sector or ministry can preempt and solve complex health problems.” — Rwanda One Health Steering Committee The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the...
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To inform the implementation of the Global Fragility Act, the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change & Security Program hosted a roundtable discussion in August 2020 for U.S. Government Representatives...
By Margaret Habib The UN estimates that gender-based violence (GBV) has affected 33 percent of women worldwide. In Yemen, GBV has increased by 63 percent since the start of the civil war. As of 2017,...
By Carmen Geha “It was bad enough as it was, the last thing we needed was this pandemic,” my friend tells me as we sit down to lament months of disappointment. On October 17, 2019, Lebanon witnessed...
In a new report from the Latin American Program, Oriana Van Praag, with Cynthia J. Arnson, detail Venezuela’s calamitous humanitarian crisis that predates and is aggravated by the coronavirus, as...