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22/09/2025
Slam poetry has become a vital form of cultural expression for a new generation of artists and activists in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Now, as the M23 rebellion brings fresh turmoil to the region, we’ve commissioned five leading slammers to create original poems – confronting war and honouring the strength of their communities. https://buff.ly/0zwkk0q
These powerful new poems examine the escalating crisis in the east.
20/09/2025
📰 Inklings newsletter: Notes on all things aid and aid-adjacent. Today: Humanitarian trade shows, talking about genocide, and what an audit shows about exit plans for “deprioritised” countries.
Notes on aid: Humanitarian trade shows, genocide, and what an audit shows about exit plans for “deprioritised” countries.
20/09/2025
📰 The new Inklings newsletter: Notes and musings on how aid works, from ’s policy desk. https://buff.ly/Q4PlBiS
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19/09/2025
🗣️ Inklings: “There have been months of Geneva-level talk on what to prioritise and what to cut and consolidate. But how ‘reset’-ready are humanitarians on the ground?”
Notes on aid: Humanitarian trade shows, genocide, and what an audit shows about exit plans for “deprioritised” countries.
19/09/2025
🗞️ In the latest Inklings aid policy newsletter: Humanitarian trade shows, talking about genocide, and what an audit shows about exit plans for “deprioritised” countries.
Notes on aid: Humanitarian trade shows, genocide, and what an audit shows about exit plans for “deprioritised” countries.
19/09/2025
Across the world, communities facing displacement, conflict, and inequality are already reshaping how crises are met through solidarity, care, and collective response.
At UNGA, we’re asking:
➡️ How can we reimagine the international humanitarian system?
➡️ What would it take to align funding and infrastructure?
➡️ What is standing in the way?
🗓️ 25 September 2025, 9.45-11.00 ET
📍 UNGA, New York and online
🔗 Register now via link in bio/or link for LinkedIn
At UNGA 80, join us as we spotlight community-driven responses reshaping humanitarian action and what must change.
18/09/2025
South Sudan's government frames the White Army as a terrorist militia, but fighters say they are simply defending their communities against a predatory state. https://buff.ly/xZlTK80
18/09/2025
A little-understood force is at the center of South Sudan’s escalating conflict: the White Army. Our latest explains who they are, and what’s at stake.
The government says they are bent on overthrowing the state, but fighters insist they are defending their communities.
17/09/2025
🚨 New newsletter: Inklings explores all things aid and aid-adjacent. Today: Humanitarian reset – what’s the exit plan for deprioritised crises?
Notes on aid: Humanitarian trade shows, genocide, and what an audit shows about exit plans for “deprioritised” countries.
17/09/2025
A local dispute between South Sudan’s army and the White Army militia has spiralled into a broader national crisis. Read our explainer to understand what has happened:
The government says they are bent on overthrowing the state, but fighters insist they are defending their communities.
15/09/2025
Our investigation is now public.
It documents how, between Jan 2024 and July 2025, over 2,600 people seeking aid were killed and 14,576 others injured in Gaza.
That’s 4% of all deaths and nearly 10% of all wounded from Israel’s war in Gaza.
Our interactive database shows nearly 200 attacks, and a sharp uptick since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operations on 27 May.
15/09/2025
As the genocide in Gaza continues, humanitarian organisations face mounting pressure and unprecedented constraints. Famine has been declared, access remains heavily restricted, and international mechanisms have failed to prevent mass civilian suffering.
This event will bring together humanitarian leaders, legal experts, and Palestinian voices to reflect on the urgent question: What should humanitarian actors do to stop the genocide in Gaza?
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The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) was founded by the United Nations in 1995, in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, out of the conviction that objective on-the-ground reporting of humanitarian crises could help mitigate or even prevent future disasters of that magnitude.
Almost twenty years later, we became an independent non-profit news organisation, allowing us to cast a more critical eye over the multi-billion-dollar emergency aid industry and draw attention to its failures at a time of unprecedented humanitarian need. As digital disinformation went global, and mainstream media retreated from many international crisis zones, our field-based, high-quality journalism filled even more of a gap. Today, we are one of only a handful of newsrooms world-wide specialized in covering crises and disasters – and in holding the aid industry accountable.
In 2019, we changed our name to The New Humanitarian to signal our move from UN project to independent newsroom and our role chronicling the changing nature of – and response to – humanitarian crises.
Throughout our journey, we have remained true to our mission to inform crisis prevention and response by amplifying the voices of those most affected; shining a light on forgotten crises; and resisting superficial, sensational narratives about the crises of our time.
Our name and brand identity
Evocative of respected media brands such as The New Statesman and The Economist, The New Humanitarian is the authoritative news source for policy-makers and practitioners involved in humanitarian response. We are to crises what POLITICO is to politics.
Our logo is designed in GT Sectra, a modern serif font that originated as the house typeface of a Swiss longform journal called Reportagen. It marries the flourish of calligraphy to the precision-cut lettering of a printing press, echoing our commitment to evocative story-telling based on sharp reporting.
The cursor at the end of our logo signals our aim to be fresh and forward-looking, ready to tap in to the latest developments, and tell the ongoing story of crises as they evolve.
But most importantly, The New Humanitarian speaks to the profound shifts impacting our world today.
The drivers of humanitarian needs are changing, thanks to new threats like climate change, longer-lasting conflicts, and a geopolitical landscape that makes the resolution of crises at the international level more challenging.
The impacts of humanitarian crises are changing too, becoming more global in their repercussions. The exodus of refugees from Syria is one of many examples.
Traditional forms of humanitarian intervention are bursting at the seams; new approaches and players are emerging to fill an increasing gap between needs and response.
Tackling the world’s crises is no longer the exclusive domain of governments, “Big Aid” and the United Nations -- nor is it only about disaster relief and aid delivery. In many ways, the whole conception of humanitarianism is changing, evidenced by the private sector’s response to refugees; high school students marching for climate change; and local communities reclaiming agency in shaping their own futures. Today, a new generation of humanitarians is redefining the way the world responds to crises – demanding a seat at the table and a voice in the conversation.
We remain the trusted news source for policy-makers and practitioners in humanitarian response, but The New Humanitarian is expanding to reach this wider audience of people who want to better understand our complex world, in order to change it for the better.
