Increasingly true and increasingly concerning, for all of us.
"In polarised and politically charged contexts, humanitarian principles such as neutrality and impartiality are increasingly misunderstood, misrepresented or deliberately attacked online." @ifrc.org
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Kerem Shalom crossing reportedly reopening today - crucial given food security experts say there is just a week’s supply of fresh food left in Gaza.
“The return of famine to Gaza is what we fear most, even more than the shelling” a father tells the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
“Children should never be caught in the crossfire, and their homes, schools and communities must not become battlefields. Wars have laws. Children and schools must be off limits."
Inger Ashing, @savethechildren.org
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"We know where conflict is metastasizing, where hunger is deepening, where displacement is accelerating.
"The real question is not whether the warnings are clear, but whether there is will to act on them." @rescue.org's David Miliband
www.rescue.org/article/davi...
Utterly heartbreaking news from Ukraine, where an overnight attack killed two-year-old twins Ivan and Vladyslav, and their one-year-old sister Myroslava, when their house was hit in the town of Bohodukhiv. Their father was also killed and their pregnant mother injured.
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“I hear the rockets fly over. I sit quietly. The children sleep, and I am on guard.”
@andrewkramer.bsky.social & @lynseyaddario.bsky.social report on how families in Kyiv are surviving the bitter chill of the coldest winter in a decade amid continuing attacks on power
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
“Humanitarian assistance saves lives and must continue wherever needs arise. But when emergency tools become the long-term default, and entire generations remain trapped in dependency, we are not building sustainability."
Critical points by Barham Salih @unhcr.org
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53 people, including two babies, are dead or missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Friday. Only two survived.
In January, 375 people were reported dead or missing in the Central Med - more than 10 a day, per @iom.int
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In conflict-affected and hard-to-reach areas, conditions may be just as catastrophic, yet the full extent is unknown because monitoring and assessments can’t keep pace with displacement, insecurity, and rapidly deteriorating conditions.
Alarm bells should be ringing. This is a signal of just how severe and how widespread the crisis is becoming, and one of the clearest possible warnings that time to prevent significant loss of life is running out.
In Um Baru - more than half of children assessed were found to be malnourished, with almost one in five acutely malnourished and in need of urgent life-saving support.
The confirmation that two additional areas of Sudan's North Darfur have breached the IPC famine threshold for acute malnutrition among young children is a serious concern - especially as these locations were not previously flagged as at risk.
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We all lose something with these kinds of cuts to foreign coverage, regardless of whether you read the Post.
We lose perspective, context, continuity, transparency, accountability, and an understanding of ourselves as part of a global whole.
Hard won and all too easily lost.
Awful that so many talented, dedicated journalists were laid off by the Washington Post today.
Some of the best reporters I've worked with, covering wars, humanitarian crises and stories that already receive far too little attention. Stories that will now die in darkness.
A sobering report from Afghanistan, where four million children are at risk of dying from malnutrition this year, according to @wfp.org - the most in a quarter-century.
Critical reporting by @elianpeltier.bsky.social Yaqoob Akbary, Safiullah Padshah & Tomas Munita www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...
Aid cuts could lead to more than 22 million avoidable deaths by 2030, including 5.4 million children under five, according to the most comprehensive modelling to date.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Kordofan is sliding toward catastrophe.
Fighting is intensifying, aid access is collapsing, communities are being cut off from food and healthcare.
Children will bear the brunt, as they always do.
This has been visible for months.
From the @nrc-global.bsky.social
www.nrc.no/news/2026/su...
“The years 2024 and 2025 proved devastating to civilians, with little evidence of willing-
ness among warring parties to limit the barbarity inflicted upon the most vulnerable.”
Full report here -> geneva-academy.ch/wp-content/u...
This, sadly, is becoming truer and truer.
“Atrocity crimes are being repeated because past ones were tolerated. Our actions – or inaction – will determine whether international humanitarian law vanishes altogether.” Stuart Casey-Maslen
@dansabbagh.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
Many parents and families in Gaza are facing an impossible choice amid harsh winter storms - shelter in tents that provide little protection from the elements, or damaged buildings that risk collapse, and children are paying the price.
Always grateful to join Jessica Dean on @CNN on #Gaza
Famine conditions confirmed in Sudan’s Al Fasher and Kadugli but hunger and malnutrition ease where conflict subsides - @unicef.org @wfp.org @fao.org
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“Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis - and children are paying the highest price”
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IOM, UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP urge immediate action to address escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
“What I witnessed in Darfur and elsewhere this week is a stark reminder of what is at stake" UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban
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The ceasefire brings hope that life for children in Gaza can return to being about more than just survival. But with winter approaching, there’s no time to lose. Without shelter and warm clothing, children’s lives will remain at risk.
Speaking to ABC News’ Janai Norman
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At least 17 children – 9 girls and 8 boys, including an infant just seven days old – were killed in an attack on the Dar al-Arqam Displacement Centre in Al Fasher, North Darfur, early yesterday morning, according to reports received by UNICEF.
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"There are drones and quadcopters still flying around and there's some heavy machine gun fire. We're still determined to get these babies back to their parents in the south,"
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
'Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. We call on Israel to ensure the full protection of the lives of all civilians.
'For the sake of all children in Gaza, this war must end now.'
Statement from UNICEF Executive Director on Gaza
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In Nasser, the hospital corridors are lined with women who have just given birth.
In six missions to Gaza, I have never seen it like this.
New mothers and vulnerable newborns lying on the floor.
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
UNICEF is deeply shocked and concerned by the killing of ten children in ten days in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
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Nearly 45,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine are on their way to Kasai province in DR Congo as UNICEF intensifies efforts. Since the outbreak was declared on 5 September, 47 suspected and confirmed cases have been reported, including 14 among children.
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