For more than 150 years, the way the international community assists those affected by natural and human-induced disasters has been guided by four clear and succinct principles: humanity, impartiality ...

NOTE: This event is at capacity. We invite you to watch the live webcast through this page. Today’s humanitarian access landscape is shaped by concurrent complex crises. Politicization of humanitarian ...

Humanitarian organizations have an almost impossible task: They must balance the imperative to save lives with the commitment to do no harm. They perform this balancing act amidst chaos, with ...

CARACAS, April 30 (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed effort to send aid to Venezuela in 2019 that ended in a violent standoff on the Colombian border was not planned in alignment with humanitarian principles, ...

It is my pleasure to be here with you today, and allow me as well to thank the hosts, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Sweden for bringing us here together today. Today, we have a dual, urgent ...

Recently, much of the analysis of the crisis in Venezuela has focused on video sleuthing to determine responsibility for the burning of a truck loaded with relief supplies. The needless political ...

Humanitarians love standardization. In 1997, a group of humanitarians looking to improve the quality of disaster response created the Sphere project, which initiated the Sphere Standards, a set of ...

The head of a new U.S. and Israel-backed organization set to distribute aid in Gaza has quit, saying it would be impossible to do the job without compromising basic humanitarian principles. Jake Wood, ...

Bangladesh's humanitarian sector is at a crossroads — where localisation, private-sector partnership, and early investment in preparedness are no longer optional additions to the model but the ...

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 26 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office has again stressed the need to apply international law and ...