For more than 150 years, the way the international community assists those affected by natural and human-induced disasters has been guided by four clear and succinct principles: humanity, impartiality ...

NOTE: This event is at capacity. We invite you to watch the live webcast through this page. Today’s humanitarian access landscape is shaped by concurrent complex crises. Politicization of humanitarian ...

Humanitarian intervention is often measured by the immediate relief it provides – a meal to a hungry family, shelter after a disaster, medical assistance to the vulnerable or educational materials for ...

CARACAS, April 30 (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed effort to send aid to Venezuela in 2019 that ended in a violent standoff on the Colombian border was not planned in alignment with humanitarian principles, ...

Humanitarian organizations have an almost impossible task: They must balance the imperative to save lives with the commitment to do no harm. They perform this balancing act amidst chaos, with ...

It is my pleasure to be here with you today, and allow me as well to thank the hosts, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Sweden for bringing us here together today. Today, we have a dual, urgent ...

Humanitarians love standardization. In 1997, a group of humanitarians looking to improve the quality of disaster response created the Sphere project, which initiated the Sphere Standards, a set of ...

Recently, much of the analysis of the crisis in Venezuela has focused on video sleuthing to determine responsibility for the burning of a truck loaded with relief supplies. The needless political ...

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. Jake Wood, ...

Under the Geneva Conventions, warring parties are responsible for providing medical care to civilians in the territory they control. But what happens if the warring parties don't have the will or the ...

GENEVA, January 5 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Monday called for strict adherence to humanitarian principles in the continuing conflict in Gaza, including respect ...