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After 35 years with the UN, here's what I learned
At heart, the work of the United Nations depends on one powerful human emotion.
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Humanitarian Action
A Glimpse into the Future: The Humanitarian System
What are the technologies that will play a role in the humanitarian system in the next 15 years – what is an optimistic scenario for their use and what might be some of the unintended con...
Population
How to turn refugee camps into smart cities
Refugees camps often mean despair. But the right technology can turn them into places of hope and self-sufficiency.
Migration
World leaders have failed refugees. Can ordinary citizens teach them a lesson?
Rather than acting as obstacles to the humane responses that many of their populations are showing, governments should support people in their efforts to open their communities to refugees.
Humanitarian Action
Five ways mobile technology can help in humanitarian emergencies
The number of people displaced from their homes each year is rising - but so is the number of mobile users worldwide. For people facing the reality of humanitarian emergencies, the techno...
Illicit Economy
Four dangerous assumptions about human trafficking
Despite the commitment of governments, business and religious leaders to ending it, human trafficking is a persistent evil in the globalized world. We should be more realistic about how w...
Risk and Resilience
Recovering from disasters
This is part of a series of articles exploring the role the World Economic Forum has played in supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ahead of our Sustainable Developme...
Humanitarian Action
This Japanese artist designs homes for refugees
A minimalist Japanese architect is designing homes for refugees that they can build themselves.
Education and Skills
Sweden can teach the world about educating child refugees. Here's why
The UK should learn from countries such as Sweden, where more inclusive practices are already in place.
Cities and Urbanization
Safe havens: why cities are crucial to the global refugee crisis
Where nation states and populists are closing borders and rejecting migrants, cities are open, diverse and cosmopolitan - making them a potential antidote to reactionary nationalism aroun...
Middle East and North Africa
Google and UNHCR create 360-degree tour of Syria's destruction
The new website Searching for Syria offers a punishingly clear view of how Syria has fared after six years of fighting.
Middle East and North Africa
Yemen is poised to become a failed state. Here's why
Beset by war, famine and cholera, Yemen is facing 'total social, economic and institutional collapse', warns the UN.
Africa
As the world faces an unprecedented famine threat, the G7 nations must act
Famine in one country would be unacceptable - today we are faced with four. A bold and urgent response is needed to save the millions of people who are at risk.
Humanitarian Action
IKEA's new plan to sell rugs made by refugees
Ikea plans to sell rugs and textiles made by Syrian refugees.
Middle East and North Africa
If we can help Somalia, we can help Libya’s migrants too
There are at least 400,000 migrants inside Libya now - many held in detention centres with appalling conditions. Improving life for them could be the path to putting this battered country...