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“It Can Also Be Done from Central Europe” – Hungarian Humanitarian Involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

May 4, 2013 0

by István Tarrósy

Increasing attention has been paid to Sub-Saharan humanitarian projects across the NGO sector of Hungary for some years. This may have come with the country’s accession to the […]

Youth, Labor, and Violence: The Production of Humanitarian Crises in Sierra Leone and Liberia

August 21, 2012 0

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dear Readers, the below is the first post of a three-part series on the moral economy of resource extraction, with its attendant violent commodification of people’s lives. In […]

Reporting Somalia

June 14, 2012 0

Mary Harper

Whenever I come back from a reporting trip to Somalia, people ask me if I was scared, if I was shot at, if I came across any pirates, […]

Learning from Kony 2012 (Part 4 of 4)

March 28, 2012 0

EDITOR’S NOTE: Please check out our four contributions to In the News, following on the controversy surrounding Kony 2012. They include practical suggestions for Westerners involved in aid work […]

Learning from Kony 2012 (Part 1 of 4)

March 28, 2012 4

EDITOR’S NOTE: Please check out our four contributions to In the News, following on the controversy surrounding Kony 2012. They include practical suggestions for Westerners involved in aid work […]