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On November 7, 2019, Patricia McIlreavy, InterAction’s Vice President of Humanitarian Policy and Practice, delivered the keynote address at Villanova University’s International Development and Humanitarian…

November 19 is World Toilet Day—a day that is sure to gather its usual collection of smirks and giggles here in the U.S., where scatological…

For many, the existence of the United Nations is a simple fact of life, but of course, that wasn’t always the case. The U.N.’s Charter…

Between 1998 and 2017, natural disasters killed 1.3 million people, left 4.4 billion people injured, displaced, or in need of emergency assistance, and caused economic…

On October 9, only three days after the White House released a statement declaring that the United States forces in northern Syria would be withdrawn,…

CEO of InterAction, Sam Worthington, issued the following statement regarding military incursion on the Turkish-Syrian border. “InterAction strongly urges all State and non- State parties…

“Afghans are resilient, not by choice but by need. We know how to celebrate life despite the constant violence we are subjected to if we…

The Trump Administration has proposed setting the ceiling for the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) at 18,000 in Fiscal Year 2020. This represents the…

Far from the air-conditioned meeting rooms of Geneva and New York, it is frontline aid workers who are wrestling with the practical challenges of making…

On September 1, Hurricane Dorian made first landfall on Elbow Cay, in the Abacos of the northwestern Bahamas. Dorian is the strongest hurricane on…

Patty McIlreavy’s office door is always open. Many Vice Presidents of NGOs have an open door policy, but, never seem to have an open…

On August 19, 2003, a terrorist attack hit the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22 people. Five years later, the General Assembly adopted a …