The public is talking about Palantir and data (but humanitarians aren’t). More on the WFP cyber-attack, the agency's data plans, Palantir, and the pope. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

Inklings | WFP, Palantir, and the pope

The public is talking about Palantir and data (but humanitarians aren’t).

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WFP cyber-attack: How many people is 600,000 households? World Food Programme won't say. But the numbers behind the data breach could suggest a stark toll: Nearly every person still in Gaza has had their personal data exposed. ➡️ @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

WFP cyber-attack: Is nearly all of Gaza’s population exposed?

Notes on how aid works: What WFP leaves out of data breach reports, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

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The digital rights community has lessons to share, but will the humanitarian sector be humble enough to listen?

Just Giulio@giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Data of 600,000 Gaza households exposed in @wfp.org cyber-attack:this kind of incident is a matter of when/how, not if. I suggest @6oldberg.bsky.social and @irwinloy.bsky.social and the @newhumanitarian.bsky.social to keep echoing @sixfouronea.net: what are people supposed to do with a notification?

4 takeaways and 1 existential question from new #OECD aid data: 📉 Humanitarian aid is falling faster ☝️ Aid is more clearly self-interest over need 💰 Aid is rising (for now) for a few donors ✂️ There are more cuts to come ❓ Is development cooperation dead? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-gra...

🗣️ Will the next World Food Programme chief answer to Trump? "The next WFP leader could help the UN emergency food agency save millions of lives – or walk away from a starving world." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

Will the next World Food Programme chief answer to Trump?

The next WFP chief could help the UN emergency food agency save millions of lives – or walk away from a starving world.

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🗣️ US aid funding policies attack women's choices, trans people, and people of colour: "Let’s not pretend the US wants to fund principled humanitarian action." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

Let’s not pretend the US wants to fund principled humanitarian action

The US is trying to redefine humanitarian principles by dictating discrimination. Humanitarians – and other donors – must draw a line.

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Is this thing on? 🤔

This – a mix of reporting and reflections on the slaughter unfolding in El Fasher – is tough to read but an essential account in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter

Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

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Former UN relief chief Martin Griffiths on genocide in Gaza + implications for humanitarians: "In the face of genocide... the job of enforcing humanitarian law cannot remain detached or siloed from humanitarian action itself," he (co-)writes: www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/it-...

It is genocide: Humanitarian law must be enforced in Gaza - Institute of Development Studies

On 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for ...

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Let this month be a reminder not just of how far we’ve come, but of what we must now defend – openly, actively and without apology. genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...

❝Quiet cuts and loud silences: this year’s Pride carries a heavier weight - Geneva Solutions

US president Donald Trump’s assault on diversity initiatives has had a silencing effect on many of Geneva’s humanitarian organisations, writes Jamie Munn, the director of the International Council for...

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"I was forced to receive the implant by the doctor.” Stigmatised for the perception of having too many children, Rohingya women are forced to use contraception in Bangladesh refugee camps: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

Rohingya women coerced to use contraception in Bangladesh refugee camps

Many in the overcrowded camps are open to family planning, but coercion and racist treatment by healthcare workers risks squandering that demand.

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IOM being IOM: The Trump administration has hired the International Organization for Migration for its "self-deportation" program. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump pushes unauthorized migrants to ‘self-deport’ as lawyers raise red flags

Trump is touting an “exit bonus” and free flights. Immigration lawyers worry migrants who could qualify to remain legally in the U.S. are being pressured.

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Taking part in Israeli plans to enforce military-controlled aid in Gaza would implicate the 🇺🇳UN in atrocity crimes and genocide risks, an internal UN briefing warns. It may also set a precedent of “total control” likely to be copied by other countries: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/05...

Gaza militarised aid plan could implicate humanitarians in Israeli war crimes: UN briefing

The UN and established NGOs are refusing to participate in an Israeli plan to take over aid distribution in Gaza, but face US pressure to join.

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Humanitarian blurred lines: Former WFP chief David Beasley has a new role advising a firm led by ex-military and CIA members. Fogbow was involved in that US military-run Gaza aid pier. Q: What's the next step here for Fogbow x Beasley in Gaza? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

Inklings | Ex-WFP boss David Beasley’s new gig

UNRWA’s private-sector fundraising, more humanitarian R-words, and David Beasley’s new Fogbow side hustle.

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Once again, Myanmar has fallen off the int'l radar again less than 4 weeks after the worst quake in >100 years hit. So thank you The New Humanitarian for this piece on what's happening in Sagaing, only 15km from epicentre but where needs are still high. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

In Myanmar, a disaster in a war zone means a slow and difficult aid response

Local groups are struggling to cope with the scale of the disaster, while the civil war means international efforts have so far proved ineffective.

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🔥 Hot take: Maybe the humanitarian reset is going exactly according to plan. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

Inklings | Why a reset is not reform

Notes on Sudan’s fundraising crossfire, what new development assistance data shows, and yet another humanitarian reset.

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"Here’s the uncomfortable truth: If your humanitarian mission dies when the money dries up, it was never a mission, it was a business." So many strong lines in the piece. @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

What if we stopped aid altogether?

The future of refugee aid work is that INGOs need to ditch their egos and self-interest, and work honestly and collaboratively with refugee leaders.

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Controversial take - well structured digital nomad visas buffeted by strong housing policies are an acceptable counterpoint to highly skilled worker visas that have been skimming off the best trained and most qualified workers from the global majority for generations.

In the first quarter of 2025, hundreds of cooperation and humanitarian aid projects came to a sudden end. How can ethics be ensured in the closure of a humanitarian project, even when it occurs unexpectedly? #humanitarianethics

Ethics in the closing of a humanitarian project - Salud everywhere

Ethics in the closing of a humanitarian project helps prevent harm and legitimizes us in our imperative to alleviate suffering.

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We enter a data desert: the USG shutters key collecting/analytic efforts like FEWSNET, terminates efforts to improve data-reinforced decision making. The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse

Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.

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Humanitarian aid’s extreme donor dependency problem in five charts - superb bit of number crunching by @odi.global's Mike Pearson www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Humanitarian aid’s extreme donor dependency problem in five charts

A closer look at the numbers shows the perils of donor concentration, and why a wider donor base means more funding.

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 2y ago

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

Does reading make your eyes hurt? On the TNH podcast feed, @tammam.bsky.social reads his essay, "Why reform isn’t enough," accompanied by a soothing score. open.spotify.com/episode/2hs7...

Why reforming humanitarianism isn't enough | First Person

The New Humanitarian · Episode

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“Who we are”: The International Rescue Committee and others are wiping DEI-related content from their websites. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

Inklings | Who’s erasing DEI from their websites?

What Trump’s envoys say about aid funding, who’s bridging the gap, and who’s not complying in advance.

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The International Rescue Committee is laying off and furloughing thousands of staff – one organisation among many amid Trump’s aid freeze. A few notes: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/02...

IRC cutting thousands of staff after US aid freeze

Layoffs and furloughs spread as humanitarians grapple with the fallout from Trump’s attempted dismantling of US foreign aid.

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🗣️ “We keep fixing that hole, but the water pressure keeps building.” Thoughts on aid dependency and reforms amid the Trump chaos, from an NGO head who once relied on aid: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2...

Inklings | Thoughts on aid dependency amid the Trump chaos

Aid worker attacks, political and donor headwinds, and reflections on dependency from an NGO head who once relied on aid.

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🗣️ “A big wake-up call." Frontline local aid groups are scrambling to move forward after Trump’s US aid freeze – keenly aware that emergencies are deepening in their backyards, and that help is not on the way. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

How local humanitarian groups are navigating the US aid freeze havoc

Stopgaps, new funders, and long-term vision: Pressure grows on grassroots aid to chart a path forward amid Trump’s sudden cuts.

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"We, for the first time in our history, will have to suspend ongoing and urgent humanitarian work for hundreds of thousands of people in nearly 20 countries," @nrc-global.bsky.social says: www.nrc.no/news/2025/fe...

NRC forced to suspend essential aid work in almost 20 countries

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