As someone who has been doing policy research consulting in the field of international humanitarian action since the early 2000s, I have seen how research products can badly miss the mark in two oppos...

How do you make the right choice when all the options are bad? There’s a tool for navigating humanitarian dilemmas.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since launching in February 2025, the Data Rescue Project has grown substantially. At this point, the DRP has enabled the rescue of more than 1,000 datasets from US Federal…

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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

Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.

Nearly all USAID programs have been eliminated. One official says it's a "global health massacre." And, a federal judge will hear arguments over the decision to fire thousands of probationary workers.

A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

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The largest U.S. government workers' union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.

The potential for devastation is made plain by another order, concerning the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D.

Syria has long been a source of contention at the United Nations. Assad’s fall has created an opening for cooperation on a political transition.

News and Press Release in English on World and 1 other country about Safety and Security; published on 22 Nov 2024 by OCHA