Gaza, Haiti, and Sudan currently face high levels of acute food insecurity. Despite past optimism about reducing or eradicating famines through infrastructure improvements and global humanitarian efforts, conflict remains a…

The UN’s hunger monitoring initiative, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), uses a five-tier system to determine whether a famine should be declared in a certain region. Most recently,…

Although water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions are commonly implemented as part of humanitarian response activities, multiple systematic reviews have noted gaps in their effectiveness. In a new paper published…

With conflict-related deaths at a 26-year record high and more than 110 million people forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of June, 2023, the humanitarian system is overwhelmed. The Johns…

The 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol stand as the most significant and comprehensive legal framework for defining and protecting the rights of refugees worldwide, representing a cornerstone in the…