World Humanitarian Day 2024
Aid workers are increasingly being targeted by armed actors who seek to intimidate, coerce, or disrupt aid operations for strategic gains. In Gaza and South Sudan, in Yemen and the Central African Republic, disinformation campaigns are fueling hostility toward aid agencies. These threats not only endanger the lives of those dedicated to humanitarian action but also severely hinder access to essential aid for millions of vulnerable people in conflict-affected areas.
Violence in Myanmar Intensifying Humanitarian Needs
Since October 2023, resistance forces in Myanmar have gained territorial control across different parts of Myanmar. Expanded resistance has been…
Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan: A Call to Action
InterAction and its Member organizations are launching a comprehensive blog series to shed light on the critical issues facing Sudan and provide targeted recommendations for policymakers.
Challenges of Humanitarian Assistance in a Maritime Battlespace
In the Asia-Pacific, the prospect of great power competition—and potential conflict—looms large, threatening to reshape not only geopolitical dynamics but…
New OFAC Licenses Facilitate Humanitarian Transfers: Op-Ed by InterAction’s Andrea Hall
What began as a series of puzzling anecdotes about the inexplicable and abrupt closure of nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs’) bank accounts…
Myanmar Crisis: Recommendations on Aid Delivery in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape
Two years following the Myanmar military’s overthrowal of the democratically-elected ruling party on February 1, 2021, thousands of people have…
110+ NGOs Call on Congress to Appropriate Emergency Resources for Food Insecurity, Humanitarian Action & Global COVID-19 Response
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McCarthy, Minority Leader McConnell, Chairwoman DeLauro, Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, and…
Statement on Humanitarian Crisis and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia
InterAction released the following statement on the humanitarian crisis and ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia: “For over 11 months, humanitarians have…
Humanitarian Aid: Captive to Bureaucracy
August 19 marks the day in 2003 when a bomb ripped through U.N. Headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22 women and…