In 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, aid organizations faced a $37 billion funding shortfall to help crisis-affected communities. Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International ...

Humanitarian aid saves millions of lives each year and creates a safer world. Learn more about what it is, why it’s important and what you can do to help. 7 February 2025 Photo: Jacob Zocherman for ...

In March 2020, soon after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, China and Russia dispatched aid to Italy as the country’s dire outbreak horrified the world, a portent of what was ...

Justin*, a humanitarian worker with Save the Children, is on the frontlines of one of the world’s most dangerous conflicts. Based in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), he focuses on ...

A controversial new American-backed organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), has announced it will begin delivering aid to the besieged territory within two weeks and says it has Israel’s ...

The Biden administration sent a letter to the Israeli government demanding it act to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within the next 30 days or risk violating US laws governing foreign ...

Although crises are on the rise, humanitarian funding has dropped in Africa and worldwide. The convergence of multiple international crises and massive aid cuts by US President Donald Trump have ...

The head of a new U.S. and Israel-backed organization set to distribute aid in Gaza has quit, saying it would be impossible to do the job without compromising basic humanitarian principles. Subscribe ...

What a year the last week has been. That is likely the sentiment among legions of humanitarian workers both in the United States and around the world who have been left thoroughly dazed and confused ...

As war continues to escalate across the Middle East, the humanitarian consequences—direct and cascading—are only just beginning to come into focus. For aid workers who are already underfunded and ...

Proposal outlines plan to build camps for displaced people in Gaza The 'Humanitarian Transit Areas' would be located inside and outside of Gaza Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says the plan is 'not under ...