Challenging patriarchy: gender equality and humanitarian principles

July 18, 2019 13 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Sexual Violence / The most read blog posts in 2019 Ricardo Fal-Dutra Santos

This blog seeks to explore the ongoing discourse in the humanitarian sector that portrays gender ...

Humanitarian Action: The need to scale back, not up

June 20, 2019 9 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / The most read blog posts in 2019 Marc DuBois

Your father has a heart attack. The ambulance crew arrives in minutes. They save his ...

5 things that make ICRC confidential information unsuitable for legal proceedings

January 31, 2019 17 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Law and Conflict Elem Khairullin

Due to the specificities of its work, the ICRC can at times be the only ...

A humanitarian-development nexus that works

June 21, 2018 11 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Protracted Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2018 Filipa Schmitz Guinote

The decades-old discussion on the ‘humanitarian-development nexus’ is again in full swing. At the beginning, ...

Identities, intersectionalities and vulnerabilities in humanitarian operations: A response to Slim

March 1, 2018 7 mins read Analysis / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Identity

By Dr Ayesha Ahmad & Professor Lisa Eckenwiler together with Professor Jackie Leach Scully, Dr ...

Impartiality and Intersectionality

January 16, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Identity / The most read blog posts in 2018 Hugo Slim

Intersectional theory is all the rage in liberal academia and is being increasingly taken up ...

Challenges & dilemmas in frontline negotiations: Interview with Claude Bruderlein

January 4, 2018 9 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Interviews Claude Bruderlein

Frontline staff of humanitarian organizations often negotiate with an array of local and international actors to establish a presence in conflict environments, ensure ...

Humanitarian experimentation

November 28, 2017 5 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik & Sean Martin McDonald

Humanitarian actors, faced with ongoing conflict, epidemics, famine and a range of natural disasters, are ...

Through a victim’s eyes: Interview with Terry Waite, humanitarian and former hostage

July 15, 2016 12 mins read Humanitarian Principles / Interviews / Religion The editors

Hostage-taking, torture and other forms of ill-treatment continue to put a tremendous strain on victims and their families. In this interview, Terry Waite ...