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World humanitarian summit

News, comment and features on the world humanitarian summit held in Istanbul in May 2016

November 2016

  • A patient with cholera symptoms receives medical attention of MSF Médecins Sans Frontières.

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Progress stalls on getting funds to local humanitarian groups

  • Russian dolls styled in the likeness of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in a Moscow souvenir shop.

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Western populism is a fundamental threat to the humanitarian system

    András Derzsi-Horváth

July 2016

  • Nigerian children attend class in a primary school in Makoko, Lagos

    Working together, we have a real chance to make global education a reality

    Erna Solberg
  • Christian Aid toured a ‘truth truck’ around villages in Gorkha and Dhading

    Anatomy of a campaign
    How we revealed what local people thought of Nepal earthquake aid

June 2016

  • A child in a refugee camp near Bangui in 2013

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Disability in conflict zones: 'I told my wife to take the children and run'

    Being caught in a humanitarian crisis with a disability can lead to abandonment and neglect. How can we make humanitarian response more inclusive?
  • The IRC provides cash assistance to Syrian refugees in Lebanon through the use of an ATM bank card like this one.

    What people in humanitarian crises need is cash, not commodities

    Erik Johnson and Paula Gil Baizan
    Leaders at this week’s UN econonic and social council meeting must pledge to give people affected by disasters the flexibility that cash transfers offer

    • MSF rejects EU funding in protest at refugee deal

    • Reshaping humanitarian action
      Ban Ki-moon: 'We must work in new ways to help people in crisis'

      Ban Ki-moon

    • Reshaping humanitarian action
      Ban Ki-moon: 'Estamos creando nuevas formas de trabajar juntos para ayudar a las personas en situación de crisis'

      Ban Ki-moon

25 May 2016

  • FILE PHOTO: RBS Reports 1.5 Billion Loss And Computer Mistake<br>FILE - 3 AUGUST 2012: Royal Bank of Scotland reported a 1.5 Billion loss and a computer mistake costing 125 million on August 3, 2012. 1st March 1947: Personnel working by candlelight at the Royal Bank of Scotland, London, during electricity cuts. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

    We need less paperwork and more aid in humanitarian work

    Julia Steets and András Derzsi-Horváth
  • Kenya deputy president William Ruto during UN World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on 24 May 2016.

    Kenya tells UK to resettle Somali refugees living in Dadaab

24 May 2016

  • The World Humanitarian Summit in Turkeywas conceived by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to draw attention to the growing humanitarian crisis. EPA/SEDAT SUNA

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    New deal on humanitarian financing signed at summit in Istanbul

    Progress made on commitments to increase transparency and efficiency in aid spending at World Humanitarian Summit
  • An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Nine commitments we want from the World Humanitarian Summit

    What impact will the summit have on humanitarian response? Our panel of experts share their thoughts

    • Small Changes
      Why are so many children around the world out of school? – podcast transcript

    • Secret aid worker
      Secret aid worker: 'It is time to pass the UN leadership baton to a new generation'

    • Divert 10% of EU funds to deal with refugee crisis, says Germany

23 May 2016

  • UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon speaks during the opening ceremony at the World Humanitarian Summit.

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    World Humanitarian Summit: who to follow on Twitter

    Politicians, aid organisations and civil society leaders are meeting in Istanbul on 23-24 May in an attempt to reform the humanitarian system. Here’s who to follow on Twitter to keep up with the discussion
  • Women displaced by conflict arrive at a camp near Jowhar, Somalia, in November 2013

    World humanitarian summit starts amid hope, hype and fear of empty words

    World leaders convene in Istanbul with official optimism offset by concerns that summit may prove ‘expensive talking shop’ rather than catalyst for change
  • Recep Tayyip ​​Erdoğan

    Erdoğan calls on Europe to take in more Syrian refugees

    In an article for the Guardian, Turkish president says Europe not doing enough to redistribute the 3 million Syrians living in Turkey

22 May 2016

  • A displaced Iraqi collects boxes of food donated by the World Food Program.

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    The humanitarian system: 'A mammoth machinery losing track of what it is for'

    Expensive, inefficient, unaccountable, with power concentrated in the hands of the few; what are the weaknesses of the modern aid leviathan?
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