Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The UN's high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, finishes his term at the end of the year. As with most top UN roles, picking the next UN refugee chief is far from transparent. What's differen...
27 Nov 202539min
Security Council backs Trump's Gaza plan. What could go wrong? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The UN Security Council has passed a resolution backing US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. It authorises an "international stabilisation force", and approves a "board of peace". Essentia...
20 Nov 202557min
Why emergency education saves lives | Rethinking Humanitarianism
When aid funding is tight, education is often cut first. But schools offer more than just learning, and communities say education is their priority. "We have to believe that survival means more than j...
13 Nov 202544min
What's behind the COP climate circus | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The UN climate summit, COP30, is getting under way in Brazil, with global temperatures rising – and global cooperation under deep strain. Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, the UN Secretary-Genera...
6 Nov 202548min
How to make people care? Emergency aid's marketing problem | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Global polls show citizens in many countries want their governments to fund humanitarian aid. But the US and other nations have gutted aid departments or shrunk budgets – with little public pushback. ...
30 Okt 202559min
The global backlash on gender rights | Rethinking Humanitarianism
The backlash against women's and LGBTIQI+ rights is growing – part of an organised movement that goes beyond one country or one president. But as Saskia Brechenmacher says on the latest episode of Ret...
15 Okt 202549min
The aid sector's LGBTQI+ blindspot | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Global funding cuts are worsening emergency aid's weaknesses when it comes to the LGBTQI+ community. The Trump administration is explicitly targeting trans people. And gender-related programming is am...
1 Okt 202545min
UNGA Event | Dispatches from the future
Remaking humanitarianism: Dispatches from the future How can we reimagine the international humanitarian system so that it builds on – rather than undermines – the response communities are already cre...
30 Sep 20251h 17min
