THE YEMEN LISTENING PROJECT Where Yemenis talk, and the world listens The people planning and funding wars, devising aid plans, and trying to negotiate peace all too often fail to talk to the people living at the centre of it all. Long before Gaza hit the headlines, the term “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” often referred to Yemen. Its devastating war and economic collapse, which began nine years ago, has left hundreds of thousands of people dead from violence, disease, starvation, and a lack of healthcare. Tens of millions more have been caught up in Yemen’s conflict, but its story has mostly been told by journalists, aid groups, and politicians. Until now. What has it really been like to live through all this? To find out, The Yemen Listening Project asked Yemenis one question: “How has the war impacted your life?” More than 100 Yemenis – from inside the country and across the world – answered. They sent emails and WhatsApp messages, voice notes, videos, poems, and pictures. They include testimonies of loss, life in exile, and what it is like to live through bombing and ground battles. But there are also tales of love, family connection, and personal and professional persistence in the face of impossible-seeming obstacles. When #Yemen does make the news, it's too often reduced to faceless narratives. Follow link below to look into the lives behind the headlines, and to listen to Yemenis as they tell their stories, in their own words, in Arabic and English. https://lnkd.in/eB7JwsPV
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The New Humanitarian was founded by the United Nations in 1995, in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, out of the conviction that objective on-the-ground reporting of humanitarian crises could help mitigate or even prevent future disasters of that magnitude. Almost twenty years later, we became an independent non-profit news organisation, allowing us to cast a more critical eye over the multi-billion-dollar emergency aid industry and draw attention to its failures at a time of unprecedented humanitarian need. As digital disinformation went global, and mainstream media retreated from many international crisis zones, our field-based, high-quality journalism filled even more of a gap. Today, we are one of only a handful of newsrooms world-wide specialized in covering crises and disasters – and in holding the aid industry accountable. In 2019, we changed our name to The New Humanitarian to signal our move from UN project to independent newsroom and our role chronicling the changing nature of – and response to – humanitarian crises. Throughout our journey, we have remained true to our mission to inform crisis prevention and response by amplifying the voices of those most affected; shining a light on forgotten crises; and resisting superficial, sensational narratives about the crises of our time.
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“The European Union only invests for itself, not for Africa." Journalist Jack Thompson tried to trace the on-the-ground impact of EU funding to address the 'root causes of migration' in Senegal. This is what he found out:
A fool’s mission: Trying to track the impact of EU migration funding in Senegal
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Opinion: Humanitarian organisations are all-too-frequently guilty of using anti-migration tropes in their public communications, even if their intentions are not malicious. We can and must do better.
Humanitarians: Stop using fear of migration to drive fundraising and advocacy
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Once hyped, long stalled, the Grand Bargain reform plans have plenty of critics. So why is there a hint of optimism as aid groups meet?
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Syrian refugees deported from Lebanon say they suffered abuses by security forces on both sides of the border, including beatings by Lebanese authorities and forced conscription into the Syrian army. Some have died in detention or disappeared. Their experiences raise concerns about the fate awaiting the 276,000 people who have fled Lebanon to Syria since the intensification of Israel’s airstrikes on the country last month, 70% of whom are Syrians, according to UNHCR. Prior to the current escalation, Lebanon was hosting an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, who now face an impossible decision: return to Syria and face potential arrest, conscription, and abuse; or remain in Lebanon and risk death or injury. The risks of returning to Syria have been made clear in recent years, as Lebanese authorities ramped up removals of Syrian refugees. The military forced at least 13,700 people over the border into Syria in deportation or pushback operations in 2023. This year so far, the military has removed at least 4,800 Syrians in pushback operations, according to UNHCR. Lebanon’s General Directorate of General Security, an intelligence agency responsible for monitoring foreign residents, deported an additional 1,300 Syrians in 2023 and 900 this year so far, according to UNHCR. Out of 760 deportations documented last year by the Syrian human rights group Syrian human rights group Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR), around 120 people have not been heard from since. Over the last three months, Syrian Investigative Journalism Unit and The New Humanitarian secured rare interviews with recent deportees who remain trapped in Syria, as well as relatives of deportees who died or went missing after being handed over to Syrian authorities. They described sudden, violent raids by Lebanese police and intelligence officials, mass deportations by truck, long marches across the barren border zone between the two countries, and prolonged, arbitrary detention by Syrian authorities. Read the full story here: ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e7PtWTTm
As Israel bombs Lebanon, Syrian deportees face beatings, detention, or worse
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Women and girls in the Central African Republic are continuing to have their lives ruined by sexual abuse committed by UN peacekeepers, and many are not even reporting cases to the mission on the ground, MINUSCA. A public UN database has recorded allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation against over 730 peacekeepers working for MINUSCA since 2015. Yet The New Humanitarian spoke to 19 women who have not reported abuse and exploitation as well as civil society groups that said they are also not sharing allegations despite recording a “constant” flow of new cases. Women said they are not reporting abuse to MINUSCA because they fear reprisals, don’t know who to contact, or lack faith that action will be taken. “Victims are very afraid to talk about what they have experienced and don't know who to talk to at MINUSCA,” said the president of a local association that supports women who have survived sexual abuse. “They threatened me with death if I spoke,” said a woman who said she was raped by two Mauritanian soldiers last year. Read our latest investigation ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/een9C8R2
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Some takeaways from new humanitarian funding data: 📆 Responses are lasting years – a stark change from a decade ago 💸 Key reforms keep money concentrated in the same hands 👩🏻🎓 It’s easier to ace a test when you grade yourself https://lnkd.in/eyM2NVuH
Localisation, cash, anticipatory action: What new data says about where the humanitarian system is heading
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Lebanon's caretaker government has been slow to respond to humanitarian needs from escalating Israeli attacks, leaving civil society to step in and fill that gap. Read here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ehHRBBGh
Under Israeli bombs, civil society fills the void left by the Lebanese state
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The war in Sudan has produced the world’s largest displacement crisis, uprooting over 10 million people, and the biggest hunger crisis too. Women and girls have been especially badly impacted: https://lnkd.in/ebyfi2_7
Health services non-functional as women bear the brunt of Sudan's war
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