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The New Humanitarian — 100 episodes

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

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What is humanitarian journalism? | Decolonise How?

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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?

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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

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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?

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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

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

35

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

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Can dialogue truly shift power? | Power Shift

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Introducing 'Power Shift': An experiment in dialogue

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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

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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)

51

A Syrian reminder: The ones you once saw suffering, still are | First Person

52

The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What's Unsaid (REPLAY)

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The stories humanitarians tell (and why they need to change) | Rethinking Humanitarianism

54

Who can the Rohingya rely on? | What's Unsaid

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Faith as a way forward | What's Unsaid

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'Culture of solidarity': Why I'm hosting Congolese relatives who fled the M23 conflict | First Person

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An interview with the UN's humanitarian chief | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)

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Does India know what's ahead? | What's Unsaid

59

Venezuelans Are So Tired of Living on the Edge | First Person

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Let refugees lead | What's Unsaid

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'Give us the money': Aid as reparations | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)

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Migrants and refugees are easy political targets | What's Unsaid

63

While we struggle to survive in Mali, the world looks away | First Person

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Why we need to fund feminists | What's Unsaid

65

How mutual aid in Sudan is getting international support (UPDATED) | Rethinking Humanitarianism

66

Gaza: Is a ceasefire enough? | What's Unsaid

67

How Yemenis keep each other alive, nine years into war | First Person

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What's Unheard? The Yemen Listening Project | What's Unsaid

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In conversation with Heba Aly | Rethinking Humanitarianism

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Kenya's new integration plan for refugees: Hope or hype? | What's Unsaid

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'When will we be next?': A dispatch from Rafah | First Person

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Is the Politicisation of Health Workers Getting Worse? | What's Unsaid

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Why humanitarians should care about tax justice | Rethinking Humanitarianism

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Double standards leave local aid workers unprotected | What's Unsaid

75

Charting the course: Navigating 2024's humanitarian landscape | Event

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2024, another deadly migrant year? | What's Unsaid

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How to step aside to promote change | Rethinking Humanitarianism

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Genocide or not, what difference does a word make? | What's Unsaid

79

What science fiction teaches us about imagining a better world | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)

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From refugee inclusion to shifting power | Event

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How humanitarianism changed in 2023 | Rethinking Humanitarianism

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Let's talk about aid diversion | What's Unsaid

83

A journey into Libya's man-made disaster | First Person

84

Genocide or not, what difference does a word make? | What's Unsaid

85

Is aid sustaining Palestine's occupation? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

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Peace in Gaza | What's Unsaid

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Gaza lines your bones: Memories of a place I've lived | First Person

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The media's silencing of Palestinians | What's Unsaid

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How mutual aid in Sudan is getting international support | Rethinking Humanitarianism

90

How profit is preventing peace in Yemen | What's Unsaid

91

What's Unsaid, a podcast by The New Humanitarian

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Pakistan must confront blasphemy-related vigilante violence | First Person

93

The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What's Unsaid

94

What is a humanitarian crisis, really? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

95

The UN is not climate neutral | What's Unsaid

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The international community is ignoring Afghan calls to engage with the Taliban | What's Unsaid

97

First Person: Why narratives around migration in Latin America need to change

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First Person | How Malawi is telling me and other refugees we don't belong

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First Person | Let refugees be economic contributors

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First Person | Why Cyclone Mocha should end talk of sending Rohingya like me home