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Sep 2, 2021

Biometric aid data and the Taliban

How long is data stored? Who has copies? Can it be deleted? What about informed consent? Re-examining aid data security after the Taliban’s rise. — By Irwin Loy for The New Humanitarian From ethical dilemmas on data security to worst-case scenarios unfolding in real time — the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan is spurring urgent concern about the safety of data that aid groups have collected over 20 years.

Humanitarian

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Biometric aid data and the Taliban
Biometric aid data and the Taliban
Humanitarian

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Dec 1, 2020

Pushing back against the tide: A Pacific nation’s climate fight

‘This village will disappear. Our community will disappear.’ — By Ann Esswein and photos by Felie Zernack MAROW, Vanuatu Mounds of heavy stones are all that protects Jeffrey Daniels’ home from the waves that wash onto tiny Emao, an island dotting the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. But the makeshift dams can’t stop his village from flooding during fierce tropical…

Climate Change

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Pushing back against the tide: A Pacific nation’s climate fight
Pushing back against the tide: A Pacific nation’s climate fight
Climate Change

11 min read


Oct 29, 2020

Welcome to the new face of crisis

This pandemic is a taste of things to come. We’re not ready. — By Lydia Poole The humanitarian system has developed to respond to geographically contained and separate crises that are usually a long-haul flight from the centres of power and wealth that sustain it. But that is no longer how crises work. If you didn’t believe in systemic crises before, hopefully you…

Crisis

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Welcome to the new face of crisis
Welcome to the new face of crisis
Crisis

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Oct 5, 2020

How we broke the Ebola sexual abuse scandal

First, there were whispers of women being sexually abused by aid workers during the Ebola response. Then, we heard 51 voices. — By Paisley Dodds, Investigations Editor at The New Humanitarian Early last year during a trip to the Ebola outbreak zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we were tipped off that aid workers might be sexually abusing and exploiting women. “Oh, they love our ladies,” reporter Robert Flummerfelt was told…

Ebola

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How we broke the Ebola sexual abuse scandal
How we broke the Ebola sexual abuse scandal
Ebola

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Sep 24, 2020

Thailand’s deep south women are on the front lines of peace

‘Someone has to step up. If we are silent and do nothing, then we fail the next generation.’ — By Caleb Quinley in Pattani, Thailand Years of conflict and violence have divided communities in Thailand’s deep south. Pateemoh Poh-Itaeda-oh is one of a growing number of women trying to build peace by bringing them together. In Thailand’s southernmost provinces, militants are fighting for greater autonomy for the region’s Malay…

Thailand

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Thailand’s deep south women are on the front lines of peace
Thailand’s deep south women are on the front lines of peace
Thailand

7 min read


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·Apr 27, 2020

Is global warming driving the spread of dengue across Latin America?

In 1970, the tropical disease was only a danger in nine countries. Now, it afflicts over 100. — By Joshua Collins in Bogotá International scientists have for years warned that climate change is likely to lead to an increase in epidemics caused by pathogens and viruses. …

Health

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Is global warming driving the spread of dengue across Latin America?
Is global warming driving the spread of dengue across Latin America?
Health

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Apr 15, 2020

How a tech NGO got sucked into a COVID-19 conspiracy theory

Joining the (quantum) dots on a public health conspiracy theory. — by Ben Parker Staff at a US-based non-profit have received death threats linked to erroneous claims about its work on digital ID in a case propelled by the tide of misinformation over coronavirus and false accusations against Bill Gates. Dakota Gruener, CEO of New York-based non-profit ID2020, told The New…

Coronavirus

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How a tech NGO got sucked into a COVID-19 conspiracy theory
How a tech NGO got sucked into a COVID-19 conspiracy theory
Coronavirus

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Mar 31, 2020

History lesson: Coronavirus is the latest pandemic, not the last

Lessons from the history of pandemics. — by Ken Arnold, Abbie Doran, and Danielle Olsen The authors are the International Cultural Initiatives Team at Wellcome, an independent health and medicine foundation. Jacob Burinescu, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, lived in New York City’s Lower East Side. He ran a cleaning business and was a member of the Yiddish…

Health

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History lesson: Coronavirus is the latest pandemic, not the last
History lesson: Coronavirus is the latest pandemic, not the last
Health

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Mar 30, 2020

Coronavirus technology: No, we don’t need an app for this

By Sean McDonald WASHINGTON D.C. COVID-19 is no time to forget history. This is neither the public health sector, the humanitarian response sector, nor the technology sector’s first disaster — and we’d do well to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. As the world braces for the possibility of…

Covid 19

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Coronavirus technology: No, we don’t need an app for this
Coronavirus technology: No, we don’t need an app for this
Covid 19

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Mar 24, 2020

Rohingya refugees need a coronavirus lifeline, not an internet ban

‘The coronavirus is a risk to everyone — but the greatest risks are to refugee communities like ours.’ — By Mohammed Arfaat in Cox’s Bazar Editor’s note: The coronavirus outbreak could be particularly devastating for people living in cramped refugee and displacement camps, aid groups say. In Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps, aid groups and the government are mapping out contingency plans, and trying to boost health systems and hygiene promotion…

Coronavirus

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Rohingya refugees need a coronavirus lifeline, not an internet ban
Rohingya refugees need a coronavirus lifeline, not an internet ban
Coronavirus

3 min read

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