NOTE: This event is at capacity. We invite you to watch the live webcast through this page. Today’s humanitarian access landscape is shaped by concurrent complex crises. Politicization of humanitarian ...

Amid the increase in complex conflict across the world, humanitarian principles, policies, and practice need more robust international and interagency coordination to effectively support vulnerable ...

Humanitarian History Is Being Rewritten--Will We Stay True to Our Core Values?The humanitarian sector stands at one of the most defining moments in its history. Around the world, conflicts are ...

Humanitarian organizations have an almost impossible task: They must balance the imperative to save lives with the commitment to do no harm. They perform this balancing act amidst chaos, with ...

It is my pleasure to be here with you today, and allow me as well to thank the hosts, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Sweden for bringing us here together today. Today, we have a dual, urgent ...

CARACAS, April 30 (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed effort to send aid to Venezuela in 2019 that ended in a violent standoff on the Colombian border was not planned in alignment with humanitarian principles, ...

Under the Geneva Conventions, warring parties are responsible for providing medical care to civilians in the territory they control. But what happens if the warring parties don't have the will or the ...

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council and former U.N. aid chief, Jan Egeland (L), visits Domiz camp in the northern Iraqi province of Dohuk, Aug. 21, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani Ahead ...

Humanitarians love standardization. In 1997, a group of humanitarians looking to improve the quality of disaster response created the Sphere project, which initiated the Sphere Standards, a set of ...

The Secretary-General has received the following written statement which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31. [22 July 2014] * This written statement is ...

The EU is deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza and its disproportionate effect on civilians ...