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The New Humanitarian is a news podcast hosted by The New Humanitarian. It has 100 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

The New Humanitarian brings you an inside look at the conflicts and natural disasters that leave millions of people in need each year, and the policies and people who respond to them. Join TNH's journalists in the aid policy hub of Geneva and in global hotspots to unpack the stories that are disrupting and shaping lives around the world.

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An exit talk with UNRWA's Philippe Lazzarini | Rethinking Humanitarianism

2

What is humanitarian journalism? | Decolonise How?

3

Who owns the story? | Decolonise How?

4

Tragedy? When humanitarian language becomes oppressive | Rethinking Humanitarianism

5

Introducing a new podcast on crisis storytelling | Decolonise How?

6

The aid sector's techno-colonialism problem | Rethinking Humanitarianism

7

Burnout in the aid sector and how to respond | Rethinking Humanitarianism

8

Don't forget about the Rohingya | Rethinking Humanitarianism

9

What's happening in Iran? The wider context | Rethinking Humanitarianism

10

What we've learned so far: Key takeaways for 2026 | Rethinking Humanitarianism

11

No one wants to depend on aid, including refugees | Power Shift (REPLAY)

12

International law is failing us. What now? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

13

Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief | Rethinking Humanitarianism

14

Security Council backs Trump's Gaza plan. What could go wrong? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

15

Why emergency education saves lives | Rethinking Humanitarianism

16

What's behind the COP climate circus | Rethinking Humanitarianism

17

How to make people care? Emergency aid's marketing problem | Rethinking Humanitarianism

18

The global backlash on gender rights | Rethinking Humanitarianism

19

The aid sector's LGBTQI+ blindspot | Rethinking Humanitarianism

20

UNGA Event | Dispatches from the future

21

Bonus: Rethinking UNGA | Rethinking Humanitarianism

22

The UN's 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems | Rethinking Humanitarianism

23

Event | What should humanitarian actors do to stop the genocide in Gaza?

24

The UN and the crisis of liberalism | Rethinking Humanitarianism

25

An interview with UN relief chief Tom Fletcher | Rethinking Humanitarianism

26

Don't look away from Gaza | What's Unsaid

27

What's missing is a relationship with the grassroots | Power Shift

28

Should we talk to the jihadists? | What's Unsaid

29

No one wants to depend on aid, including refugees | Power Shift

30

Is it time to declare a humanitarian crisis in the US? | What's Unsaid

31

Change is so incremental that it's not happening | Power Shift

32

Do we want to relinquish power, or not? | Power Shift

33

Why reforming humanitarianism isn't enough | First Person

34

If not (US) aid, then what? | Event

35

Is Haiti better off without aid? | What's Unsaid

36

Can dialogue truly shift power? | Power Shift

37

Introducing 'Power Shift': An experiment in dialogue

38

Who are the bad guys anyway? | What's Unsaid

39

If not aid, then what? | Event

40

In conversation with new CEO Tammam Aloudat | Rethinking Humanitarianism

41

What will stop the fighting in Sudan? | What's Unsaid

42

In crises, can life ever be normal? | What's Unsaid

43

The only thing saving us is us | First Person

44

Haitian 'gangs are at war with us' | First Person

45

A Sudanese collective's care in Cairo | First Person

46

In Syria, 'waiting for war' | First Person

47

In the Taliban's Islamic Emirate, 'everything seems fine, until it's not' | First Person

48

'Everyone in Gaza is exhausted' | First Person

49

Water 'stress' affects every aspect of life in Warawa, Nigeria | First Person

50

Peace in Gaza | What's Unsaid (REPLAY)

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