Podcasts by The New Humanitarian

A journey into Libya’s man-made disaster | First Person from 2023-11-30T09:30

Ala Majid Khayrullhah, a medical student and climate activist, shares what he witnessed in Libya a month after the devastating floods. 

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Is aid sustaining Palestine's occupation? | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2023-11-16T10:00

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Peace in Gaza | What’s Unsaid from 2023-11-09T10:30

Palestinian peace activist Nivine Sandouka discusses the difficult way forward for building trust between Israelis and Palestinians. Hosted by Irwin Loy.

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The media’s silencing of Palestinians | What’s Unsaid from 2023-10-24T10:55

Palestinian-American writer and journalist Mariam Barghouti joins host Ali Latifi to discuss how both mainstream media and aid policy help muffle Palestinian perspectives.  

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How profit is preventing peace in Yemen | What’s Unsaid from 2023-10-12T09:33

Conflict analyst Hisham Al-Omeisy joins host Irwin Loy to explain how war has become a profitable business in Yemen, even as millions of Yemenis struggle. 

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What's Unsaid, a podcast by The New Humanitarian from 2023-10-05T11:10

What’s Unsaid is our new bi-weekly podcast exploring the open secrets and uncomfortable truths that often surround the world’s conflicts and disasters, hosted by staff editors Irwin Loy and Ali ...

The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What’s Unsaid from 2023-09-28T09:40

Aid worker and psychologist Imogen Wall joins host Ali Latifi to discuss how the way humanitarian organisations are run can do as much damage to aid workers' mental health as being con...

What is a humanitarian crisis, really? | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2023-09-21T09:00

What is a humanitarian crisis, as it’s commonly understood? What’s the historical weight of that term? What happens if we change our common understanding of it?

It may seem like a game of...

What is a humanitarian crisis, really? | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2023-09-21T09:00

What is a humanitarian crisis, as it’s commonly understood? What’s the historical weight of that term? What happens if we change our common understanding of it?

It may seem like a game of...

The UN is not climate neutral | What’s Unsaid from 2023-09-14T09:35

The UN overstates its claims of climate neutrality and purchases junk carbon credits that do little to cut emissions. This is revealed in a Listen

First Person | Why I came back to Dadaab: A different kind of refugee return story from 2023-09-07T16:09

Journalist and filmmaker Abdirahman Ahmed Aden is a Somali refugee who left the camp in Kenya where he had lived most of his life to go back home to Somalia. In his Listen

The international community is ignoring Afghan calls to engage with the Taliban | What’s Unsaid from 2023-08-31T10:00

If the aim is to see real change in Afghanistan, shouldn’t the Taliban be included in the conversation? 

In this first episode of What’s Unsaid, we speak to Afghan hum...

The international community is ignoring Afghan calls to engage with the Taliban | What’s Unsaid from 2023-08-31T10:00

If the aim is to see real change in Afghanistan, shouldn’t the Taliban be included in the conversation? 

In this first episode of What’s Unsaid, we speak to Afghan hum...

First Person: Why narratives around migration in Latin America need to change from 2023-08-23T19:14

Laura, a Colombian refugee living in Ecuador explains why narratives around migration in Latin America need to change. In her Listen

First Person | How Malawi is telling me and other refugees we don’t belong from 2023-08-09T10:08

A refugee in Malawi shares how their treatment makes them worry about their security and feel like they don’t belong.

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First Person | Let refugees be economic contributors from 2023-07-26T14:27

Matai Muon shares how policies suppress the economic potential of refugees, which forces many into a situation of dependency instead of allowing them to contribute to the societies they’re curre...

First Person | Why Cyclone Mocha should end talk of sending Rohingya like me home from 2023-07-12T15:11

San Thai Shin is a Rohingya researcher and volunteer teacher in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. In his Listen

First person | How years of impunity gave Sudan’s generals licence to destroy my country from 2023-06-28T10:57

Hala al-Karib shares how the days unfolded when the violence started in Sudan, and what some of the root causes are according to her, including the failings of the international commun...

Interview | How to fix the UN’s sex abuse problem? from 2023-04-25T10:35:50

Christian Saunders was appointed as the UN’s special coordinator on improving the response to sexual exploitation and abuse in July. 

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Event | Principled humanitarian action in Ukraine from 2023-04-02T11:27:53

At the European Humanitarian Forum, The New Humanitarian's CEO Heba Aly moderates a panel on principled humanitarian action in Ukraine.

Peter Maurer on 10 years as ICRC President | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2022-09-21T14:17:16

In his last month on the job, Maurer sits down with host Heba Aly to reflect on his decade as ICRC president.

EVENT | Nabil Alawzari in conversation with TNH Middle East Editor Annie Slemrod from 2022-09-16T12:12:28

Nabil Alawzari is a Yemeni freelance photojournalist working on rights and freedoms.

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EVENT | Megan Janetsky in conversation with TNH Latin America Editor-at-large Paula Dupraz-Dobias from 2022-09-13T10:00

Megan Janetsky is a Colombia-based reporter and photographer covering migration, women's issues and hum...

EVENT | Thin Lei Win in conversation with TNH Policy Editor Irwin Loy from 2022-09-12T12:23:07

Thin Lei Win is an award-winning multimedia journalist specialising in food and climate issues for various in...

EVENT | Thin Lei Win in conversation with TNH Policy Editor Irwin Loy from 2022-09-12T12:23:07

Thin Lei Win is an award-winning multimedia journalist specialising in food and climate issues for various in...

Weapons as aid? | Rethinking Humanitarianism (Bonus episode) from 2022-07-12T13:19:20

Calls for arms to take precedence over humanitarian assistance in Ukraine are driving renewed discussions over the limits of aid neutrality.

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EVENT | Ukraine&Beyond: Whose suffering counts? from 2022-06-01T13:00:32

The New Humanitarian hosted a debate on media coverage of humanitarian crises and why Ukraine has dominated Western media since the start of the war. Speaking with f...

What happens when the middle class falls into poverty? | RH S2E9 from 2022-01-12T15:30:50

An economic crisis, compounded by COVID-19 and the 2020 Beirut port explosion, has left middle-class families in Lebanon without food, medicine, and fuel. They ar...

Are volunteers the new face of humanitarian border aid response? | RH S2E8 from 2021-12-22T13:24:24

The major part of the humanitarian response at the Poland-Belarus border is provided by volunteers. 

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Who will finance growing humanitarian needs? | RH S2E7 from 2021-12-08T17:04:57

Traditional funding can’t keep up with the growing amounts of humanitarian aid dollars needed to help people in crises around the world.

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Does peacebuilding need a rethink? | RH S2E6 from 2021-11-24T13:39:06

Big UN-led peace processes are struggling to address today’s more fragmented conflicts.  

In this episode, host Heba...

The politicisation of aid in Ethiopia | RH S2E5 from 2021-11-10T19:55:32

In this episode, TNH CEO and podcast host Heba Aly discusses the difficult balancing act for aid agencies that want to speak out against government abuses in Ethi...

Reducing emissions in the aid sector | RH SE4 from 2021-10-27T15:13:43

To what extent are massive relief operations contributing to climate-related crises?

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RH S2E3 | Diversity in the aid sector from 2021-10-13T15:50:11

More than a year after the renewed push for racial justice, what progress has the humanitarian aid sector made? 

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TNH Special | Reflections of a humanitarian reporter from 2021-10-08T16:44:43

Co-founder, former CEO and long-time editor Ben Parker is leaving The New Humanitarian after more than 25 years. In this special episode, host Heba Aly asks him t...

RH S2E2 | A new approach to aid reform? from 2021-09-29T15:51:18

Despite many years of reforms, progress towards more inclusive, efficient, and accountable humanitarian aid has been slow. But new recommendations, based on three years of research by the Centre...

RH S2E1 | NGOs and counter-insurgency: The case of Afghanistan from 2021-09-15T11:57:09

The so-called war on terror has forever changed how aid is delivered in conflict zones, and Afghanistan is the perfect case study. 

TNH Special | Earthquake relief. Mexico. 2051 from 2021-09-10T11:30:48

A fictional take on tomorrow's disaster response - when cluster approaches, donor-funded appeals, and foreign-led responses are no longer part of humanitarian assistance. 

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Season 2 of Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2021-09-06T16:54:28

Starting September 15th, Rethinking Humanitarianism is back with new episodes exploring the future of aid.

Season 2 of Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2021-09-06T16:54:28

Starting September 15th, Rethinking Humanitarianism is back with new episodes exploring the future of aid.

Myanmar’s post-coup healthcare breakdown from 2021-03-25T22:00

HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, COVID-19, emergency care: Public health system ‘breakdown’ could cascade into a wider emergency, aid groups warn.

As trust fades, Indigenous groups in the Amazon race against time on vaccines from 2021-03-25T18:59:57

Vaccine doses are trickling in to the region’s COVID-19 hotspots, but there is deep mistrust of rollout efforts and worries over new variants.

The magic wand episode | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2021-02-19T06:14:32

In every episode of the Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast, we ask our guests what they would do if they had millions of dollars – or perhaps a magic wand – to tr...

EVENT | Crises to Watch 2021 from 2021-02-11T12:05:04

COVID-19 dominated headlines in 2020. The pandemic shocked the world, exacerbating existing crises, overshadowing new ones, and creating all kinds of knock-on health, economic and social effects...

Inside the donor mindset | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2021-02-03T14:25:12

So in this episode of Rethinking Humanitarianism, host Heba Aly sits down with donors to talk about humanitarian reform priorities from their vantage point – and ...

Aid’s climate challenge | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2021-01-20T16:02:08

What is the role of a $25 billion humanitarian aid industry in a trillion dollar problem? The size of the challenge is well beyond the humanitarian system.

So what kind of rethink is nece...

Decolonising aid | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2021-01-06T17:36:55

The police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and several other Black Americans forced many around the world to look introspectively and critically at syste...

Multilateral reform | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2020-12-23T12:59:22

As we close out a year in which the UN marked its 75th anniversary, we’re taking a hard look at whether reform of multilateral agencies has a chance.

Money talks | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2020-12-09T15:13:24

So many of the day-to-day realities of the humanitarian sector are driven by money: who gets it, how it's distributed, and what it's intended for.

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The future of aid | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2020-11-25T09:40:50

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US election special | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2020-11-11T15:58:57

After a few torturous days of suspense, Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential elections. In his victory speech, Biden said he seeks “to make America respected around the world...

Humanitarianism: the making of | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2020-11-04T09:25:58

If aid were a superhero, what would its origin story sound like? Which problems was it initially set up to solve and how are they different from the problems toda...

COVID-19 and BLM: A new era for aid? | Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2020-10-21T06:56:19

In this episode, we ask whether COVID-19 is a wake-up call to rethink humanitarianism. Join hosts Heba Aly, director of The New Humanitarian, and Jeremy Konyndyk, senior policy fellow at the Cen...

Introducing Rethinking Humanitarianism from 2020-10-15T18:56:33

Rethinking Humanitarianism is a new podcast series from The New Humanitarian and the Center for Global Development. Join hosts Heba Aly and Jeremy Konyndyk as the...

Jessica Alexander talks to the Rethinking Development Podcast from 2020-10-01T13:12:07

Tune in to the Rethinking Development podcast's new episode with The New Humanitarian. In conversation with Jessica Alexander, the editor of The New Humanitarian's #RethinkingHumanitarianism ser...

TNH Events | When the West falls into crisis from 2020-06-22T20:07:57

The globalisation of vulnerability – made clear by  Listen

TNH Events | How will COVID-19 impact crisis zones? from 2020-03-26T14:26:06

Aid agencies are scrambling to adapt as the COVID-19 pandemic is felt throughout the world. The New Humanitarian's Senior Editor Ben Parker discusses some of the most pressing issues with leadin...

Archive | Cameroon's separatist militia from 2018-07-30T14:19:57

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 poli...