Latest Rethinkinghumanitarianism Podcast Episodes
The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What’s Unsaid (REPLAY)
The New Humanitarian - July 11, 2024 09:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings*This episode was originally published on September 27, 2023. Aid worker and psychologist Imogen Wall tells host Ali Latifi that the way humanitarian organisations are run, can do as much damage to aid workers' mental health as being confronted with war, hunger, and rights abuses. What’s U...
The stories humanitarians tell (and why they need to change) | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The New Humanitarian - July 04, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhen crises hit, a host of questions arise, among them: Who needs humanitarian aid? How much? Who delivers it? And who has the power to make all of those decisions? How aid agencies and the media choose to frame this information doesn’t always help. For the last year, researchers at ODI’s Hu...
Who can the Rohingya rely on? | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - June 27, 2024 09:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsExiled from a country plagued by decades of civil war, allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and limits on basic democratic rights, Maung Zarni, an academic, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace prize nominee, explains why the Rohingya cannot rely on protection from within the country....
Faith as a way forward | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - June 20, 2024 08:37 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsViewed from Western aid capitals, the international humanitarian system is overwhelmingly secular. But for much of the rest of the world, people’s lived realities are very different. As Amjad Mohamed Saleem, a development and peacebuilding entrepreneur tells host Obi Anyadike, being a person of ...
‘Culture of solidarity’: Why I’m hosting Congolese relatives who fled the M23 conflict | First Person
The New Humanitarian - June 13, 2024 09:10 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsOne and a half million people have been uprooted by the conflict between the M23 rebel group and the national army in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many are now living with host families, little-heralded frontline responders who play a central role in relief efforts across the region...
An interview with the UN’s humanitarian chief | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)
The New Humanitarian - June 06, 2024 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings*As Martin Griffiths serves his last month at the helm of OCHA, take another listen to this episode from January 26, 2022 on his vision for the future of humanitarian aid, and his hopes for a non-British successor. ____ In the final episode of Season 2 of the Rethinking Humanitarianism podca...
Does India know what’s ahead? | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - May 30, 2024 09:37 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIndia’s incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of hate speech against Muslims during the election campaign. But Harsh Mander, a writer and peace worker, tells host Ali Latifi that Muslims are being mistreated and discriminated against at all levels of civil and political society...
Venezuelans Are So Tired of Living on the Edge | First Person
The New Humanitarian - May 23, 2024 09:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAfter 25 years as an international humanitarian worker, Susana Raffalli returned to Venezuela only to find herself at the centre of a humanitarian, political, and economic crisis in her own backyard. She describes the devastating impact that 10 years of crisis has had on Venezuelans and argues t...
Let refugees lead | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - May 16, 2024 09:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHumanitarian organisations often push an image of refugees as passive victims in need of help. But refugees themselves say they have voices and need to be listened to. Refugee advocate Jean Marie Ishimwe tells host Obi Anyadike why it’s time for the refugee-led organisation, or RLO, ‘revolution’...
‘Give us the money’: Aid as reparations | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)
The New Humanitarian - May 09, 2024 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings*This episode was originally published on December 14, 2022. The call for reparations, which has long reverberated in former colonies, is now gaining momentum in the aid and philanthropy sectors, too. It’s a call that rejects the idea of aid as charitable giving, and instead reframes it as ...
Migrants and refugees are easy political targets | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - May 02, 2024 09:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA visit to Inzargai refugee registration centre in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province prompts host Ali Latifi to explore how governments around the world are weaponising anti-refugee and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Economic and security “frustrations are absolutely real”, Professor Muhammad Zaman, dir...
While we struggle to survive in Mali, the world looks away | First Person
The New Humanitarian - April 25, 2024 09:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday’s First Person story comes from Moussa Kondo, executive director of the Sahel Institute. Moussa recounts how drastically life has changed for everyday people in Mali, where years of conflict, climate change, and political isolation have left more than 7 million people in need of humanitari...
Why we need to fund feminists | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - April 18, 2024 09:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsYoung girls and women are leading the way in driving systemic change, and supporting their communities, but a new report, titled “We need to know the humanitarian sector stands with us”, shows the extent to which they’re being overlooked and underfunded – and makes a plea directly to the sector ...
How mutual aid in Sudan is getting international support (UPDATED) | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The New Humanitarian - April 11, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings*This episode originally aired in October 2023, and includes new interviews recorded days before the first anniversary of the war in Sudan. Hajooj Kuka, external communications officer for the Khartoum State Emergency Response Rooms, updates host Melissa Fundira on how mutual aid groups are scr...
Gaza: Is a ceasefire enough? | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - April 04, 2024 09:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIsrael has continued to choose violence, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an independent journalist of Palestinian descent, tells host Ali Latifi that “this is not just a humanitarian crisis. It’s a global moral crisis.” What’s Un...
How Yemenis keep each other alive, nine years into war | First Person
The New Humanitarian - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday’s First Person story comes from Fatma Jaffar, a Yemeni humanitarian worker and the policy and advocacy lead for Oxfam Yemen. Fatma describes the dire humanitarian situation in her country and how Yemenis have kept each other alive throughout nine years of war. The ongoing conflict in Yem...
What’s Unheard? The Yemen Listening Project | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - March 21, 2024 10:44 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs Yemen’s war continues, a new project by The New Humanitarian shares personal testimonies that show how the devastating conflict has changed life for millions, while the rest of the world wasn’t paying attention. And how important it is that we keep listening. Nuha al-Junaid, project coordi...
In conversation with Heba Aly | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The New Humanitarian - March 14, 2024 10:11 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor nearly 40 episodes, Rethinking Humanitarianism has been hosted by Heba Aly. But this time around, Aly joins the podcast as a guest. Since 2007, Aly has worked with The New Humanitarian, and IRIN News before, in many different roles. It’s a journey she started as an intern, and recently fi...
Kenya’s new integration plan for refugees: Hope or hype? | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - March 07, 2024 10:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA project to turn Kenya's refugee camps - some of the largest in the world - into self-reliant communities where refugees can live, work, and set up businesses among their local hosts was recently launched. Host Obi Anyadike asks Victor Nyamori, a researcher and adviser for Refugee and Migrant...
‘When will we be next?’: A dispatch from Rafah | First Person
The New Humanitarian - February 29, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA Mercy Corps staff member describes life in the sliver of southern Gaza where 1.2 million people are sheltering in desperate conditions. The author’s name is being withheld for safety given the security situation in Gaza. Their First Person essay is read out by The New Humanitarian'...
Is the Politicisation of Health Workers Getting Worse? | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - February 22, 2024 13:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMedical missions are a lifeline to stressed health systems, usually in developing and post colonial states, but they can also be caught up in, and manipulated by, the politics of the powerful. Host Ali Latifi asks Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president and co-founder of MedGlobal, a medical NGO, whether d...
Why humanitarians should care about tax justice | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The New Humanitarian - February 15, 2024 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThey say two things in life are certain: death and taxes. But taxes – and how they’re collected – are anything but certain, and certainly not fair. Every year, nearly $500 billion in tax is lost to corporate and individual tax abuse, enough to vaccinate the world against COVID-19 three times o...
Double standards leave local aid workers unprotected | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - February 08, 2024 13:51 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhen danger comes, foreign aid workers are often flown out, leaving behind local staff to risk their lives. Othman Moqbel is the CEO for Action for Humanity, an international aid agency trying to provide protection equally to all staff. What’s Unsaid is a bi-weekly podcast by The New Humanita...
Charting the course: Navigating 2024’s humanitarian landscape | Event
The New Humanitarian - February 01, 2024 11:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCrises are mounting, and their impacts are overlapping and rippling across the globe. Emergency response has grown more complicated, and more costly. What’s the way forward? Each year, The New Humanitarian publishes our list of trends driving humanitarian needs and shaping crisis response. Fr...
2024, another deadly migrant year? | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - January 25, 2024 10:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMigration policies are making borders tougher to cross and pushing people to risk their lives along ever more dangerous routes. Is there a way to stem the rising number of migrant deaths? Eric Reidy, The New Humanitarian’s migration editor, and host Ali Latifi discuss why we’re likely to continu...
How to step aside to promote change | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The New Humanitarian - January 18, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor as long as the international humanitarian sector has existed, its top jobs have been overwhelmingly occupied by white Western men. And yet, most of the people affected by their decisions come from the global majority. One, rarely exercised, tactic to address this power differential is fo...
What science fiction teaches us about imagining a better world | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)
The New Humanitarian - January 04, 2024 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings*This episode was originally published on January 11, 2023. Time and again, guests on this season of Rethinking Humanitarianism have called for systemic changes to the humanitarian system and global governance – from alternatives to the UN to revolutionised global climate financing. But how...
From refugee inclusion to shifting power | Event
The New Humanitarian - December 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsRefugees International, The New Humanitarian, and Asylum Access hosted an event on the sidelines of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva for a candid conversation about how to truly include refugees in the policy decisions that shape their lives. SPEAKERS Sana Mustafa, Asylum Access CEO (modera...
How humanitarianism changed in 2023 | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The New Humanitarian - December 14, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFrom new conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, to flood disasters in Libya and East Africa, to earthquakes in Morocco, Syria, and Türkiye, humanitarian crises around the world drove more than 350 million people to need help in 2023. While funding to address those needs reached record levels, so too ...
Let’s talk about aid diversion | What’s Unsaid
The New Humanitarian - December 07, 2023 10:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCould talking about aid diversion actually help people who need aid? Ashley Jackson is the co-director of the Center on Armed Groups and a former aid worker. She has researched aid diversion in Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere, and joins host Irwin Loy for a candid conversation. What’s Un...
Related Rethinkinghumanitarianism Topics