The New Humanitarian

For nearly 40 episodes, Rethinking Humanitarianism has been hosted by Heba Aly. But this time around, Aly joins the podcast as a guest. Since 2007, Aly has worked with The New Humanitarian, and IRIN N...

14 Mar 202456min

A project to turn Kenya's refugee camps - some of the largest in the world - into self-reliant communities where refugees can live, work, and set up businesses among their local hosts was recently lau...

7 Mar 202423min

A Mercy Corps staff member describes life in the sliver of southern Gaza where 1.2 million people are sheltering in desperate conditions. The author's name is being withheld for safety given the ...

29 Feb 20249min

Medical missions are a lifeline to stressed health systems, usually in developing and post colonial states, but they can also be caught up in, and manipulated by, the politics of the powerful. Host Al...

22 Feb 202420min

They say two things in life are certain: death and taxes. But taxes – and how they're collected – are anything but certain, and certainly not fair. Every year, nearly $500 billion in tax is lost to co...

15 Feb 202458min

When danger comes, foreign aid workers are often flown out, leaving behind local staff to risk their lives. Othman Moqbel is the CEO for Action for Humanity, an international aid agency trying to prov...

8 Feb 202419min

Crises are mounting, and their impacts are overlapping and rippling across the globe. Emergency response has grown more complicated, and more costly. What's the way forward? Each year, The New Humanit...

1 Feb 20241h 31min

Migration policies are making borders tougher to cross and pushing people to risk their lives along ever more dangerous routes. Is there a way to stem the rising number of migrant deaths? Eric Reidy, ...

25 Jan 202421min