Humanitarian Relief

Or, at least, to tell the Inter-Agency Standing Committee -- or, as I like to think of it, the Bilderberg group of the humanitarian world -- what you think about their various publications. IASC h...

[A video from the Environmental Change and Security Program] In an excellent post over at Stop Genocide, my co-blogger Michelle looks at Conflict in the Age of Climate Change. As Michelle points...

[Sexual violence in the DRC - video from Human Rights Watch] Earlier this week, the Congo Action Coalition released a statement highlighting the "unacceptable cost for the civilian population" of...

I laughed. Which might make me a horrible person, but I did laugh. And, ummmmm, goes without saying - if you're easily offended, you might want to pass on this.

1. Would you take advice on how to fix some of the structural issues facing the States -- say income inequality, or the debt -- from a Congolese man who has spent a grand total of twelve months in...

The best links from the past week: - Reliefweb explains how to rescue people trapped in a collapsed building. - On a similar note, first person accounts from CARE about the recent earthquake in In...

On August 31st, President Obama signed a Presidential Study Directive (PSD) authorizing a whole-of-government review of US development policy. Recently, the PSD team has sent out two questions to ...

Someone once told me that there's nothing cheaper than expertise. Apparently what she meant was that it's always possible to hire an expert. I understood her words of wisdom somewhat differently -...

[Breaking footage of the suicide bomb attack in Pakistan from Dawn News] An attack on the World Food Program office in Islamabad, Pakistan killed five WFP staff on Monday. According to Chris Brum...

*Especially if you live in a low-lying coastal area. Or a developing nation. Or both. Any week in which a tsunami is only the fourth deadliest natural disaster should probably serve as a bit of a ...

[AP Footage of the Samoan Tsunami - hat tip to UN Dispatch] Seeing as how we clearly hadn't hit our quota of natural disasters in 2009, last week saw an earthquake, a typhoon, and floods. Oh, and...

It's been a year since I started this blog. Exactly six hundred posts. And yet, according to Google Analytics, still no readers in Albania, Mauritania, Turkmenistan, or Western Sahara. I would, ho...

Let's say that you're writing about a humanitarian crisis. Motivated by the best of intentions, you want to illustrate just how bleak, how horrific said situation has become. Yet all this sufferin...