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The New Humanitarian — 105 episodes

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1

Who gets to tell the story? | Decolonise How?

2

What it means for humanitarians to be political | Rethinking Humanitarianism

3

Ethical principles vs institutional realities | Decolonise How?

4

Surviving war while delivering aid | Rethinking Humanitarianism

5

Should there be foreign correspondents? | Decolonise How?

6

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

7

What is humanitarian journalism? | Decolonise How?

8

Who owns the story? | Decolonise How?

9

Tragedy? When humanitarian language becomes oppressive | Rethinking Humanitarianism

10

Introducing a new podcast on crisis storytelling | Decolonise How?

11

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

12

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

13

Don't forget about the Rohingya | Rethinking Humanitarianism

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

Why emergency education saves lives | Rethinking Humanitarianism

21

What's behind the COP climate circus | Rethinking Humanitarianism

22

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

23

The global backlash on gender rights | Rethinking Humanitarianism

24

The aid sector's LGBTQI+ blindspot | Rethinking Humanitarianism

25

UNGA Event | Dispatches from the future

26

Bonus: Rethinking UNGA | Rethinking Humanitarianism

27

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

28

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

29

The UN and the crisis of liberalism | Rethinking Humanitarianism

30

An interview with UN relief chief Tom Fletcher | Rethinking Humanitarianism

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

Why reforming humanitarianism isn't enough | First Person

39

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

40

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

41

Can dialogue truly shift power? | Power Shift

42

Introducing 'Power Shift': An experiment in dialogue

43

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

44

If not aid, then what? | Event

45

In conversation with new CEO Tammam Aloudat | Rethinking Humanitarianism

46

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

47

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

48

The only thing saving us is us | First Person

49

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

50

A Sudanese collective's care in Cairo | First Person

51

In Syria, 'waiting for war' | First Person

52

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

53

'Everyone in Gaza is exhausted' | First Person

54

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

55

Peace in Gaza | What's Unsaid (REPLAY)

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

Faith as a way forward | What's Unsaid

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

Let refugees lead | What's Unsaid

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

Why we need to fund feminists | What's Unsaid

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

In conversation with Heba Aly | Rethinking Humanitarianism

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

Why humanitarians should care about tax justice | Rethinking Humanitarianism

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

How to step aside to promote change | Rethinking Humanitarianism

83

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

84

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

85

From refugee inclusion to shifting power | Event

86

How humanitarianism changed in 2023 | Rethinking Humanitarianism

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

Is aid sustaining Palestine's occupation? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

91

Peace in Gaza | What's Unsaid

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

What's Unsaid, a podcast by The New Humanitarian

97

Pakistan must confront blasphemy-related vigilante violence | First Person

98

The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What's Unsaid

99

What is a humanitarian crisis, really? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

100

The UN is not climate neutral | What's Unsaid

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

First Person | Let refugees be economic contributors

105

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