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Jun 12
Supporting climate-smart agriculture is not merely a response to immediate needs - It’s about enabling communities to build resilience before the next climate shock strikes @ifrc buff.ly/TfQOxm8 📷️ Rumbidzai Nenzou
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Jun 11
📢 Join the upcoming 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 panel hosted by @UNOCHA & @UniofOxford to examine how the humanitarian landscape is being reshaped by global risks and trends.
📅 15 June 10AM EST
🔗 Register online buff.ly/wSMQZDu
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Jun 10
The Rafah crossing has reopened for the movement of a limited number of people in both directions.
The UN and partners have resumed support for medical evacuations from #Gaza and offered assistance to people returning.
Read today's top news: bit.ly/4xkj93p
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Jun 11
Global peace deteriorates for twelfth consecutive year.
This year's Global Peace Index reveals a record-high number of conflicts accompanied by a rapid technological revolution in warfare that is leaving international law behind.
@GlobPeaceIndex: buff.ly/17HcNdk
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Jun 9
The ReliefWeb Bangkok office is hiring an Information Management Assistant at the G-5 staff level. Deadline is 22 June, open to international applicants. Apply at careers.un.org/jobSearchDesc…
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Jun 8
A 7.8 magnitude #earthquake struck off the coast of Sarangani province in the southern #Philippines early today, leaving at least fifteen people dead and injuring 129 others - read about @CAREGlobal's response here: buff.ly/nHrE8N5
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Jun 6
Sudan tops the list of @NRC_Norway world's most neglected displacement crises, with 13M forced to flee and 19.5M facing severe hunger. Meanwhile, DR Congo makes the list for the 10th straight year buff.ly/Zr54vpm
📷: Richard Ashton/NRC
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Jun 5
Continuous military threats and forced displacement in southern Beirut have turned neighborhoods into frontlines, cutting thousands off from healthcare and clean water @MSF buff.ly/yDjq8vs
📷: MSF
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Jun 4
Driven by unusually warm tropical Pacific waters, #ElNiño is forming and set to shift global temperatures and rainfall—raising the likelihood of extreme weather in the months ahead, says @WMO buff.ly/taHM5vE
📷 WFP/Irenee Nduwayezu
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Jun 4
“The private and humanitarian sectors intersect on one key aspect, which is the human being; what humanitarians call people in need is what the private sector calls clients” - @UNOCHA's @Tapiwagomo at @AidExGlobal #privatesector #humanitarianresponse 📷️ Charles Kinyanjui
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Jun 4
“Competition at the system level exists, but it’s cooperation that enables us to deliver” - Katherine Ely of @logcluster/@WFP at @AidExGlobal 2026 #supplychains
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Jun 4
“Climate shock has a domino effect; what starts as a water crisis (boreholes drying) becomes a food crisis (livestock dying) and eventually turns into a health crisis when communities turn to unsafe water sources” – @boscomwendwa @IsraAID at @AidExGlobal 📷️ Charles Kinyanjui
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Jun 4
Humanitarian needs are at record highs while funding drops. 17 countries host 70% of those in need yet receive little support. @RESCUEorg highlights high‑impact interventions that stretch each dollar. buff.ly/0hzXges
📷 WFP/Arete/Siegfried Modola
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Jun 3
The @fightfoodcrises report finds acute hunger has doubled over the past decade, and for the first time two famines were declared in 2025. Read more: buff.ly/kU5Aine
📷 UNICEF/UNI571112/Benekire
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Jun 3
A staggering 24.3 million people across the Sahel are now in critical need of humanitarian assistance. Violence, climate shocks, and hunger are colliding, yet aid funding is at a decade low. The world cannot look away. 🌍💔
Read more @UNOCHA: buff.ly/taHM5vE
📷: UNOCHA
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Jun 3
The ongoing 2026 #AidEx Conference in Nairobi is bringing together key stakeholders, NGOs, policymakers, and private sector leaders to discuss innovative solutions, partnership approaches, and financing models to deliver sustainable humanitarian and development responses
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Jun 3
Feedback systems facilitate a two-way process where humanitarian actors communicate, receive, process, respond and learn from a community, as explained by @hpn_hpg buff.ly/Yg5KmT9
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Jun 2
Why the international community is failing #urban #refugees: @IIED’s paper challenges the reliance on stereotypes about protracted displacement in towns and cities: buff.ly/C6LgzDm
📷 UNRWA/Dominiek Benoot
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Jun 2
This @UNITAR #Peaceworks webinar was the first one of a series that focused specifically on the soft skills needed by personnel to work effectively in the field. Watch the recording at buff.ly/QjJrAYr
📷 UN Photo/Albert González Farran
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Jun 2
This brief explains how @FAO's tool "Country Level ASIS" uses satellite data to monitor #agricultural #droughts and support countries in early detection and #risk mitigation. buff.ly/twBUB7G
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