Sudan’s neighbourhood committees represent a unique blend of political and practical action. They mobilise for change while addressing immediate community needs.
Food is distributed in the southern Gaza Strip, May 3, 2025.
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Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
The flotilla of humanitarian boats leaves the port of San Giovanni Li Cuti in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy, on September 27, bound for Gaza.
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Flotilla organisers say the Israeli military boarded their ships in international waters, where they have the right to freedom of navigation.
A migrant looks out the window on a bus on her way north to Nicaragua and the Mexico-U.S. border, in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica, in 2023. Grassroots organizations that help migrants in countries in Costa Rica have been significantly affected by American cuts to humanitarian aid in 2025.
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In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.
States must exercise their full diplomatic leverage to pressure Israel to let aid in at the scale required to avert famine.
Residents of Gaza need to go to one of four checkpoints managed by the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to receive aid supplies.
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It was a stunning intelligence coup, 18 months in the making.
Much of Gaza’s population has been forced to travel considerable distances to access food or medical supplies from one of four GHF aid distribution points.
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Sudan’s war has triggered a massive displacement crisis, with more than 14 million people forced to flee their homes.
A woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in 2021.
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Humanitarian aid is based on empathy and the recognition that everyone has a right to live with dignity.
Internally displaced persons walk past the Tigrayan flag at a camp in Shire, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, in 2024.
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The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time.