New principles, independent financing, a single UN agency, a smaller footprint, and oversight with teeth to enforce.

In May 2016, I stood in Istanbul as head of the secretariat of the World Humanitarian Summit. It was an ambitious attempt to ...

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, ...

The head of a humanitarian group leading the new plan for getting aid into Gaza resigned abruptly on Sunday, accusing his organization of a strategy that does not adhere to “humanitarian principles.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council and former U.N. aid chief, Jan Egeland (L), visits Domiz camp in the northern Iraqi province of Dohuk, Aug. 21, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani Ahead ...