To mark World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, we’re focusing on three issues that are crucial to the humanitarian agenda in 2022.
In recent years, Covid-19, refugee support and the climate crisis have all demanded urgent attention and a global response.
One of our stories looks at global health, exposing the inequalities around the world during the pandemic, in a three-part podcast.
Another series focuses on the journey of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.
Covering the climate crisis, one story examines a report that reveals how climate change disproportionately affects people with disabilities and low-income households across Africa, Asia and Central and South America.
Another focuses in on the Batwa community in Uganda who are already feeling the effects of climate change.
“One of the most important ways to support adaptation is to listen to the affected communities and learn from their experience and needs. Yet, our study showed that the Batwa lack voice, agency and influence in climate adaptation planning and actions.”
We hope to bring attention to these issues and in turn pressure those in power to take meaningful action for those in need.
Featured image by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Global Health Equity: How could we make vaccine access fairer?
A new three-part podcast about COVID-19 vaccines asks how our response to the pandemic could be more equitable.
Cuba combats ‘vaccine apartheid’ to protect countries in the Global South against Covid-19
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit and wealthy countries assured poorer countries that ‘help is on the way’, instead of waiting for those promises to materialise, Cuba got to work.
13 Covid stories exposing inequalities around the world
How has the pandemic hit the world’s largest refugee camps? What does Covid tell us about inequality in our societies? And how might this year of living in lockdown affect our futures?
In pictures: The human and environmental toll of mass Rohingya migration
Photojournalist Gabriele Cecconi’s images from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh expose both the human suffering and environmental degradation caused by forced mass migration.
Rohingya refugees are using photography to tell their own stories
In the world’s largest refugee camp, Rohingya refugees are using cameras and mobile phones to document their lives for a new magazine.
Uganda’s Batwa community are vulnerable to climate change, but aren’t involved in adaptation decisions
The Batwa community of Uganda are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, but they have limited means of adapting and are being left out of crucial policy shaping
Environmental justice is racial justice: The whitewashing of the environmental movement
Dr Beverly Wright, founder of the first environmental justice centre in the US, talks about racism in the environmental movement and the inextricable link between environmental justice and racial justice.
Climate change: IPCC report reveals how inequality makes impacts worse – and what to do about it
Why are indigenous people, people with disabilities and low-income households across Africa, Asia, and Central and South America facing disproportionate impacts of climate change?
