Humanitarian response

News and comment on humanitarian responses and action, and emergency aid

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• Invisible crises: have donors forgotten the hungry in Chad?

  Guardian Professional, 12 Sep 2014: Donors must stop earmarking funds to tackle nutrition emergencies that don’t make the headlines

• Kashmir monsoon floods leave 460 dead and displace almost a million

  11 Sep 2014: Humanitarian emergency grows as Pakistani and Indian relief efforts criticised by aid-workers, amid health fears for survivors

• How can NGOs meet the challenges of ethical spending?

  Sponsored feature, Guardian Professional, 10 Sep 2014: Huge amounts of money pass through humanitarian and development NGOs. Are they putting it to optimum use?
  
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• Why gender disaster data matters: ‘In some villages, all the dead were women’

  Guardian Professional, 8 Sep 2014: Data on the 2004 tsunami found that women were more affected than men. It’s time to recognise gender in disaster response, writes Philippa Ross

• World in a week: 600% rise in reports of torture in Mexico

  Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: 1 - 5 September: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week

• World in a week: Carcasses of 192 elephants found in the Serengeti

  Guardian Professional, 22 Aug 2014: 18 - 22 August: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week

• Britain’s focus in Iraq should be humanitarian, not military

  21 Aug 2014: Simon Jenkins: We should always help people whose lives are blighted by wars, but we should not pretend to fight those wars for them

• Preventing contagion: 18 steps to preparing for an epidemic

  Guardian Professional, 21 Aug 2014: In the midst of the Ebola crisis, our panel discuss what lessons can be learned from this epidemic before the next one strikes

• 'No day ever goes to plan,' one aid worker describes mayhem in Mosul

  Guardian Professional, 19 Aug 2014: Humanitarian William McCready in northern Iraq talks about relief efforts as thousands of people flee Isis and the conflict in Sinjar

• The way to mark World Humanitarian Day in South Sudan is to work for peace

  19 Aug 2014: Toby Lanzer: The international community must show the same dedication as the South Sudanese men and women who are the true heroes of our aid operation

• World Humanitarian Day: voices from the field

  19 Aug 2014: World Humanitarian Day highlights the plight of aid workers. We profile 10 people working in the field

• Inside the luggage of a humanitarian worker – in pictures

  Guardian Professional, 19 Aug 2014: What do aid workers pack when assigned on a mission abroad? Here’s a few picks from our recent assignment

• Deaths of humanitarian aid workers reach record high

  19 Aug 2014: Figures released for World Humanitarian Day show 2013 was most dangerous yet, with 155 deaths and 134 kidnappings

• Iraq crisis: Mosul dam 'retaken' by Iraqi and Kurdish forces

  18 Aug 2014: Follow how the day unfolded amid competing claims about control of the Mosul dam

• Iraq humanitarian crisis has reached highest level, UN aid officials warn

  14 Aug 2014: Sheer number of displaced people has created dangerous and complex situation, despite lifting of Isis siege on Mount Sinjar

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