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BONUS: Could the West do more to prevent humanitarian disasters? With David Miliband

from World Review from the New Statesman

As the International Rescue Committee releases its annual report of the countries most at risk from humanitarian crises next year, the NGO’s president, David Miliband, discusses the ways in which the international community is failing on international aid. Miliband, the former foreign secretary, discusses the British government’s lack of a coherent foreign policy; why the world misses having the UK take its place on the world stage; the impact the invasion of Ukraine is having on other crises across the world; and how climate change is exacerbating disasters. Read more: Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West? Death and destruction: the humanitarian crisis of climate change The UK was the only G7 member to cut foreign aid last year Is David Miliband planning a political comeback? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the International Rescue Committee releases its annual report of the countries most at risk from humanitarian crises next year, the NGO’s president, David Miliband, discusses the ways in which the international community is failing on international aid. Miliband, the former foreign secretary, discusses the British government’s lack of a coherent foreign policy; why the world misses having the UK take its place on the world stage; the impact the invasion of Ukraine is having on other crises across the world; and how climate change is exacerbating disasters. Read more: Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West? Death and destruction: the humanitarian crisis of climate change The UK was the only G7 member to cut foreign aid last year Is David Miliband planning a political comeback? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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