Irwin Loy
The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN)
Thailand
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Past articles by Irwin:
Why this NGO is publishing its carbon emissions
Public carbon audits, tracking frontline emissions, climate data, early warning, and rethinking how to respond. → Read More
How the aid sector can end hunger: A famine expert’s plan
The problem with the F-word, breaking the aid sector’s hunger hamster wheel, and a $20 billion proposal to tackle famine. → Read More
Is aid from the richest countries really at a record high?
Three charts that show it’s not quite that simple. → Read More
2022 in review: Climate change
Mounting humanitarian impacts, policy shifts, and the voices pushing for change. → Read More
A humanitarian lens on COP27: Loss and damage, debt relief, and climate justice
Debt, reframing loss and damages, and living with risk: a humanitarian lens on the climate summit. → Read More
What climate change acronyms mean, from COP to NDCs
Spelling out the ABCs of NDCs and other climate summit jargon. → Read More
Q&A: Behind the push to bring the climate crisis to court
Vanuatu wants the UN’s top court to weigh in on climate change. A diplomat trying to make it happen explains why the issue hits close to home. → Read More
From aid double standards to the climate emergency: What we’re watching at the UNGA
As crises expand and increasingly overlap around the world, we look at key issues on (and off) the humanitarian radar. → Read More
Key takeaways from the latest humanitarian funding data
Humanitarian aid financing: Crunching the latest numbers on where it comes from, where it goes, and how it gets there. → Read More
Q&A: Why the disaster prevention agenda is growing more urgent
Preventing emergencies before they start, the climate crisis, and why humanitarian aid needs to factor in risk: A Q&A on disaster risk reduction. → Read More
Q&A: Why the disaster prevention agenda is growing more urgent
Preventing emergencies before they start, the climate crisis, and why humanitarian aid needs to factor in risk: A Q&A on disaster risk reduction. → Read More
Q&A: The aid policy ‘limbo’ on Bangladesh’s refugee island
Q&A: The aid policy ‘limbo’ on Bangladesh’s refugee island - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world → Read More
‘It’s like the wild west’: Data security in frontline aid
Personal laptops, hotel WiFi, WhatsApp photos, and other adventures in humanitarian data security. → Read More
Afghanistan’s humanitarian catastrophe
Hunger, inflation, migration, and $8 billion in aid appeals: What the numbers say about Afghanistan’s humanitarian crises. → Read More
New front lines and aid blockades: Myanmar’s post-coup crises spiral
Aid workers fear the country has slipped down the humanitarian agenda even as needs hit record levels and access shrinks. → Read More
From rural drought to urban shortages: Afghanistan’s new hungry
Afghanistan’s economy spirals: For the first time, there are similar levels of food insecurity among urban households as drought-hit rural ones. → Read More
For some NGOs, female staff guarantees are a red line for continuing Afghan aid
The UN says it’s ready to scale up emergency aid in Afghanistan. But some say more negotiations are needed to ensure women’s safety and presence. → Read More
Healthcare, aid, and the Taliban: A Q&A with Afghanistan’s health minister
How would wary donors fund healthcare under the Taliban? Afghanistan’s acting health minister weighs in. → Read More
Afghan healthcare under threat from international aid freeze
Millions are at risk of losing access to vital services as donors suspend support for government programmes under the Taliban. → Read More
Biometric data and the Taliban: What are the risks?
How long is data stored? Who has copies? Can it be deleted? What about informed consent? Re-examining aid data security after the Taliban’s rise. → Read More