As the dust settles on the United Nations COP30 climate talks in Brazil, a lot of questions remain. Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, are the UN talks still fit for purpose? How can countries...
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Robyn Alders, N'faly Magassouba, MD Ahasanul Hoque Vaccination is one of the most effective tools for preventing infectious diseases in both humans and animals. Safe and effective vaccines reduce...
Peter Clausen When people think of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), they often picture emergency teams responding in conflict zones or epidemics. But MSF’s approach continues to evolve, particularly...
Aisake Valu Eke Tuya Altangerel There has been a marked decline in Pacific development and progress against the SDGs since the early 2000s, attributable to the impacts of major disaster events,...
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Australian aid To support its 2026-30 replenishment, Australia has committed $300 million over five years in new funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and reannounced $86 million in funding that...
Richard Brennan Over 305 million people need humanitarian assistance globally today — a staggering number that has almost trebled over the past decade. Tragically, as these needs increase across...
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Surakiart Sathirathai This is an edited version of an address delivered by Professor Sathirathai at the Australian National University (ANU) on 30 April 2025. The event was sponsored by the...
Victorine de Milliano Pamela Onango On 10 January 2024, South Sudan declared a measles outbreak in its Western Equatoria state. With an alarming number of people never having been vaccinated against...
Matiullah Qazizada For more than 1,200 days, Afghan girls have been banned from attending school beyond Year 6. While boys started the new school year at secondary schools across Afghanistan on 22...
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Simon Eccleshall Arunn Jegan Humanitarian work faces increasing challenges in adapting to a more dangerous and complex global order characterised by heightened conflict, geopolitical tensions,...
The end of foreign aid as we know has regularly been predicted: for example, in response to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the emergence of increasingly insistent global challenges such as...
Will Devine On the morning of 26 January 2025, rebels from the March 23 movement (known as M23) swept into the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), further escalating a...
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Naomi Brooks The Mae La refugee camp was first established 40 years ago on the Thai-Myanmar border, and today many refugees living there do not know life anywhere else. Without a right to work in...
Charley Piringi Ofani Eremae Ronald Toito’ona Dan McGarry We republish in two parts an investigation first published by In-depth Solomons and undertaken in collaboration with the Organized Crime and...
Fiona Ryan The 2024 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, eventually came to an agreement on the quantum of...
The monsoon rains have long been a harbinger of fertility and prosperity in Bangladesh, washing away salinity and bringing shakti, or wellness, to the land. It is perhaps fitting that the mass...
Child abuse in PNG: time to step up Stephen Howes and Estelle Stambolie As part of its tenth anniversary, we collaborated with Femili PNG to produce a report using the client data the organisation...
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), rural communities play a crucial role in shaping the country’s agricultural landscape and food security. To better understand these dynamics, the International Food Policy...
Mary Fairio Women’s leadership in PNG is often described as tough, difficult or challenging. The contributing factors range from political and economic to social and cultural. For example, the PNG...
James Stiefvater Discussions about decentralisation have been a central feature of PNG politics since before independence. The highly centralised nature of Australian colonial governance led to the...
