Humanitarian Crises

FEATURED MEMBER CHARLOTTE AL-KHALILI is a social anthropologist researching revolutionary politics and subjects, religious imagination and migratory aspirations with a special focus on Syria, Turkey and Lebanon. Her research explores ...

On Wednesday 3 July the London International Development Centre (LIDC) hosted a webinar titled "Children in Palestine: Mental Health Crisis and Actions for Trauma Recovery". Chaired by Dr. Saleyha Ahsan, ...

Ahead of a festival of films by Iranian women co-curated by the Persian Educational Foundation (PEF) and Film Buzz in June 2023,  Human Rights Academic and Advocate, Dr Tahirih Danesh ...

Suella Braverman, the UK Home Secretary, has recently doubled down on her efforts to turn away small boats carrying people desperately attempting to make the notoriously difficult and dangerous crossing ...

Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL, and Simon Chin-Yee, UCL Billed as “Africa’s COP”, the 27th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, ...

The fate of those seeking sanctuary from poverty, conflict and injustice – including climate injustice – is all too often informed by constructions of ‘race’, influenced variously by either judicious ...

We had a great time talking to Frances Leach, the dynamic young Media Officer with CAFOD - the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. We caught up with Frances just as ...

The UN IPCC report on Climate Change is unequivocal. The time to act is now. LIDC Director, Professor Claire Heffernan, issued the following response: The United Nations warned on 9 ...

LIDC member Dr Romina Istratii  is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at SOAS University of London. Here she describes the challenges of setting up project dldl/ድልድል (which means ‘bridge’ in Tigrigna), ...

On 19th of August, World Humanitarian Day recognises humanitarian workers and those who have given their lives to humanitarian causes worldwide. To mark this occasion, we have decided to highlight ...