31 October 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1

Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel:

A year-long Australian-led endeavor came to fruition at the UN when a global declaration to protect aid workers was launched on 22 September 2025 with 100+ states signing on. Learn more from this post on The Conversation and SBS News podcast interview with the Australian Red Cross.

Short pieces:

A critical step toward saving lives: helping humanitarian workers respond to substance use with empathy and care (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

False economies: why underfunding local humanitarian actors puts everyone at risk (ODI Insights, Oct. 2025) [text]

Global Fragility Act 2.0? Amid a Possible Bipartisan Revival, a Chance to Make U.S. Peace Efforts More Effective (Just Security, Oct. 2025) [text]

The legal reform needed to match Australia’s global humanitarian promises (The Interpreter Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Resets, Grand Bargains, and what they say about humanitarian reform," Inklings Newsletter (27 Oct. 2025) [text]

"Three humanitarian takeaways from UN80 reform plans," Inklings Newsletter (3 Oct. 2025) [text]

Why Humanitarian Evidence Summaries are Essential in Turbulent Times (K4DD Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Remaking humanitarianism: Dispatches from the future, 25 Sept. 2025 [access]

Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series (The New Humanitarian, Sept. & Oct. 2025)
- Two recent episodes focus on "Rethinking UNGA" and "How to make people care? Emergency aid’s marketing problem." 

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