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The New Humanitarian — 118 episodes
Will aid-for-hire become the new normal? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The rise of privatised aid: A conversation with Fogbow | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Grassroots aid is here to disturb the system | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Somalia's plan to break free from aid dependence | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Will big donors "smell the coffee" or get left behind? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Error and trial: What really makes the humanitarian system change? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Lessons on media ethics from the Middle East | Decolonise How?
How to change reporting | Decolonise How?
Event | Who owns the narrative?
Crisis comms: donations vs. dignity | Decolonise How?
Event | Humanitarianism in the West Bank
Decolonising the newsroom | Decolonise How?
Diaspora aid: the lifeline we don't talk about enough | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Who gets to tell the story? | Decolonise How?
What it means for humanitarians to be political | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Ethical principles vs institutional realities | Decolonise How?
Surviving war while delivering aid | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Should there be foreign correspondents? | Decolonise How?
An exit talk with UNRWA's Philippe Lazzarini | Rethinking Humanitarianism
What is humanitarian journalism? | Decolonise How?
Who owns the story? | Decolonise How?
Tragedy? When humanitarian language becomes oppressive | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Introducing a new podcast on crisis storytelling | Decolonise How?
The aid sector's techno-colonialism problem | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Burnout in the aid sector and how to respond | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Don't forget about the Rohingya | Rethinking Humanitarianism
What's happening in Iran? The wider context | Rethinking Humanitarianism
What we've learned so far: Key takeaways for 2026 | Rethinking Humanitarianism
No one wants to depend on aid, including refugees | Power Shift (REPLAY)
International law is failing us. What now? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Security Council backs Trump's Gaza plan. What could go wrong? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Why emergency education saves lives | Rethinking Humanitarianism
What's behind the COP climate circus | Rethinking Humanitarianism
How to make people care? Emergency aid's marketing problem | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The global backlash on gender rights | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The aid sector's LGBTQI+ blindspot | Rethinking Humanitarianism
UNGA Event | Dispatches from the future
Bonus: Rethinking UNGA | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The UN's 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Event | What should humanitarian actors do to stop the genocide in Gaza?
The UN and the crisis of liberalism | Rethinking Humanitarianism
An interview with UN relief chief Tom Fletcher | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Don't look away from Gaza | What's Unsaid
What's missing is a relationship with the grassroots | Power Shift
Should we talk to the jihadists? | What's Unsaid
No one wants to depend on aid, including refugees | Power Shift
Is it time to declare a humanitarian crisis in the US? | What's Unsaid
Change is so incremental that it's not happening | Power Shift
Do we want to relinquish power, or not? | Power Shift
Why reforming humanitarianism isn't enough | First Person
If not (US) aid, then what? | Event
Is Haiti better off without aid? | What's Unsaid
Can dialogue truly shift power? | Power Shift
Introducing 'Power Shift': An experiment in dialogue
Who are the bad guys anyway? | What's Unsaid
If not aid, then what? | Event
In conversation with new CEO Tammam Aloudat | Rethinking Humanitarianism
What will stop the fighting in Sudan? | What's Unsaid
In crises, can life ever be normal? | What's Unsaid
The only thing saving us is us | First Person
Haitian 'gangs are at war with us' | First Person
A Sudanese collective's care in Cairo | First Person
In Syria, 'waiting for war' | First Person
In the Taliban's Islamic Emirate, 'everything seems fine, until it's not' | First Person
'Everyone in Gaza is exhausted' | First Person
Water 'stress' affects every aspect of life in Warawa, Nigeria | First Person
Peace in Gaza | What's Unsaid (REPLAY)
A Syrian reminder: The ones you once saw suffering, still are | First Person
The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What's Unsaid (REPLAY)
The stories humanitarians tell (and why they need to change) | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Who can the Rohingya rely on? | What's Unsaid
Faith as a way forward | What's Unsaid
'Culture of solidarity': Why I'm hosting Congolese relatives who fled the M23 conflict | First Person
An interview with the UN's humanitarian chief | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)
Does India know what's ahead? | What's Unsaid
Venezuelans Are So Tired of Living on the Edge | First Person
Let refugees lead | What's Unsaid
'Give us the money': Aid as reparations | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)
Migrants and refugees are easy political targets | What's Unsaid
While we struggle to survive in Mali, the world looks away | First Person
Why we need to fund feminists | What's Unsaid
How mutual aid in Sudan is getting international support (UPDATED) | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Gaza: Is a ceasefire enough? | What's Unsaid
How Yemenis keep each other alive, nine years into war | First Person
What's Unheard? The Yemen Listening Project | What's Unsaid
In conversation with Heba Aly | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Kenya's new integration plan for refugees: Hope or hype? | What's Unsaid
'When will we be next?': A dispatch from Rafah | First Person
Is the Politicisation of Health Workers Getting Worse? | What's Unsaid
Why humanitarians should care about tax justice | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Double standards leave local aid workers unprotected | What's Unsaid
Charting the course: Navigating 2024's humanitarian landscape | Event
2024, another deadly migrant year? | What's Unsaid
How to step aside to promote change | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Genocide or not, what difference does a word make? | What's Unsaid
What science fiction teaches us about imagining a better world | Rethinking Humanitarianism (REPLAY)
From refugee inclusion to shifting power | Event
How humanitarianism changed in 2023 | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Let's talk about aid diversion | What's Unsaid
A journey into Libya's man-made disaster | First Person
Genocide or not, what difference does a word make? | What's Unsaid
Is aid sustaining Palestine's occupation? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Peace in Gaza | What's Unsaid
Gaza lines your bones: Memories of a place I've lived | First Person
The media's silencing of Palestinians | What's Unsaid
How mutual aid in Sudan is getting international support | Rethinking Humanitarianism
How profit is preventing peace in Yemen | What's Unsaid
What's Unsaid, a podcast by The New Humanitarian
Pakistan must confront blasphemy-related vigilante violence | First Person
The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What's Unsaid
What is a humanitarian crisis, really? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The UN is not climate neutral | What's Unsaid
The international community is ignoring Afghan calls to engage with the Taliban | What's Unsaid
First Person: Why narratives around migration in Latin America need to change
First Person | How Malawi is telling me and other refugees we don't belong
First Person | Let refugees be economic contributors
First Person | Why Cyclone Mocha should end talk of sending Rohingya like me home