Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic welcome Ireland’s March 2022 draft of a political declaration to strengthen the protection of civilians from the harm...
A new study by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) underscored the need for principled humanitarian civil-military coordination to avert threats to both humanitarian aid workers and...
Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the loss of millions of lives, disrupted the global economy, and created secondary impacts on livelihoods, education, and mental health across the...
At the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, we aim to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by conducting interdisciplinary, practice-based research and education that can be used by scholars,...
DRRM policies, financial aid needed in small island communities—HHI study The report emphasizes the case of Pugad Island applies to disaster-prone small island communities in the Asia-Pacific and...
The drivers of human displacement are becoming more and more complex, ranging from conflict and persecution to the increasingly pertinent variables of heightened mobility and social media influences...
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the United Nations Security Council to urgently impose a comprehensive global arms embargo on Myanmar to help prevent further violations of human rights...
Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), together with the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, are launching a joint research “SEE...
This report is based on a comprehensive needs assessment carried out remotely by the HHI team in Syria in 2019. The OSF HESP grant was awarded to a larger project to understand the impact of...
Introduction In the Eastern Mediterranean region, the transition from a burden of primarily infectious diseases to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) has been associated with increased population growth...