Category: News

Moria – Built to Burn

Posted on 18 September 20203 March 2021 by UAI

Unless and until we switch gear, the EU will continue to spend billions of Euros incarcerating children and their families in hellish conditions that will fuel the next conflagration.

You don’t have to be neutral to be a good humanitarian

Posted on 11 September 20204 March 2021 by Khaled Mansour

In a new commentary, Hugo Slim argues that being neutral in a conflict setting is not necessary to be “a good humanitarian”.

Yemen: A Pandemic of Impunity in a Tortured Land

Posted on 11 September 20203 March 2021 by Khaled Mansour

After six unremitting years of armed conflict, Yemen is described as “a pandemic of impunity in a tortured land” in a new report by a group of UN experts.

Lebanon, where the Humanitarian Vultures Descended

Posted on 9 September 20203 March 2021 by UAI

Khaled Mansour describes how chaos in Lebanon will result in a rush for humanitarian funding, obfuscating the political responsibility for the crisis.

Several Rohingya men pass food supplies dropped by a helicopter to others aboard a boat drifting in Thai waters in the Andaman Sea on May 14, 2015. © UNHCR/Christophe Archambault

Refugee protection at risk

Posted on 8 September 20203 March 2021 by Jeff Crisp

Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) analyses the main challenges to global refugee protection as well as some new opportunities.

September 2020 News (UAI in the UK)

Posted on 2 September 202019 March 2021 by Jack Mulligan

Dear Members and Supporters, We hope that you have all come through this extraordinary summer in good health and spirits.

Putting the incarceration business on trial : The dehumanization of racist policies and for-profit prisons

Posted on 29 August 20204 March 2021 by UAI

Raoul Walawalker pleads to bring the prison-industrial complex and growth of for-profit migrant detention centres to an end.

When Aid Workers Serve the Powerful!

Posted on 25 August 202025 January 2021 by UAI

Seventeen years ago, Khaled Mansour survived a terrorist attack. On World Humanitarian Day, he warns of the security impact of humanitarian politicization.

How Covid-19 Impacted Humanitarian Action!

Posted on 11 August 20209 September 2020 by UAI

UAI welcomes the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires/Humanitarian Alternatives which is focused on the impact of Covid-19 on humanitarian action.

Pandemic as revelation: what does it tell us about people on the move?

Posted on 9 July 20203 March 2021 by UAI

Anthropologist Alessandro Monsutti and UAI co-founder Antonio Donini note that the pandemic seems to have produced new regimes of “unfreedom”.

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