Human Needs

Israel-Hamas war
Many Palestinians in Gaza have no homes left to return to
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Energy
Cuba’s long-ailing power supply fails
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Conflict & Justice
A rise in water-related conflicts around the world
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Conflict & Justice
The Arakan Army is making gains against the Myanmar military. What does it mean for the Rohingya?
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Immigration
A new wave of Kurds fleeing Turkey bring their own sound to Nashville’s Music City
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Israel-Hamas war
‘Nowhere in Gaza is safe,’ aid worker says
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Conflict
Journalist says parts of Sudan’s capital are now ‘almost unrecognizable’
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People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024.
Israel-Hamas war
Aid worker says they can’t operate after 7 World Center Kitchen staffers are killed in Israeli strike
Palestinians wait for humanitarian aid on a beachfront in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Feb. 25, 2024.
Israel-Hamas war
‘Everyone is worried about starvation’: Aid worker discusses dire situation in Gaza
A woman in the forefront and Palestinians running on the Al-Aqsa Hospital grounds in Gaza
Israel-Hamas war
Dire conditions in Gaza’s few functioning hospitals, UK doctor says
Sea-level rise and storms made stronger by climate change threaten communities across coastal Bangladesh.
Climate Change
‘They forgot about me’: People with disabilities in Bangladesh face increased risk during natural disasters
Group of people at night sitting on motorized wheelchairs
Business, Economics and Jobs
Wheelchair tours show Colombia’s Medellín from a different perspective
Children stand in front of the building of the Peruvian Congress as part of a call to demand accountability for cancer patients in Peru, September 2023.
Health & Medicine
Desperate cancer patients in Peru look for options across the Atlantic
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter Gaza Strip from Egypt in Rafah as a temporary ceasefire went into effect, Nov. 24, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
‘We’re bracing for what comes after’ the truce, MSF Gaza director says
people amid explosion
Israel-Hamas war
A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
smoke over buildings
Conflict
In Sudan, volunteers step up to help those caught in the crossfire
Karolina Daremyan bikes just six weeks after receiving her new prosthetic legs at Shriners Children's Boston.
Ukraine
How a Boston hospital transformed a Ukrainian child’s life
The ambiance of the Bab al-Yemen restaurant in Boston adds to a unique dining experience for customers, Apr. 12, 2023.
Lifestyle & Belief
At Boston’s first Yemeni restaurant, food, community and tradition are on the menu this Ramadan
Smoke rises from a central neighborhood of Khartoum, Sudan, amid intense fighting between armed forces, April 16, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
Fighting between armed forces in Sudan continues amid warnings of wider regional conflict
Vicky sits in a park in Madrid. She’s smiling because her hospice caretakers have arranged for her to fly home to the Dominican Republic to visit her mom and family one last time.
Lifestyle & Belief
‘What I really needed was a hug’: Madrid hospice workers make sure the unhoused won’t die alone
Wide view of Almeria in southern Spain.
Migration
Migrant farmworkers in Spain living in makeshift encampments have little hope for formal work
Boats carrying mining supplies move along the Uraricoera River in Alto Alegre, Roraima state, Brazil, as some miners leave Yanomami Indigenous territory ahead of expected operations against illegal mining, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. 
Environment
Lula declares humanitarian crisis for Brazil’s Yanomami territory, cracks down on illegal mining
The Singh family in a promotional video for the specially designed Bold Helmets.
Lifestyle & Belief
This mom couldn’t find sports helmets to accommodate her sons’ Sikh religious requirements, so she designed her own
Firefighters and rescue teams search for people in a destroyed building, in Adana, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.
Natural disasters
How to support relief efforts in Turkey and Syria after deadly quakes
Haitians line up outside an immigration office as they wait their turns to apply for a passport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 10, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
‘Haiti has zero elected officials’ as cholera, gang violence persist, journalist says
A hospital worker carries a tray of medicine at a government-run hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Health & Medicine
Sri Lankan doctors say the country can’t survive on donated drugs forever
A Posh Club performer leads club-goers in a conga-line.
Health
Dancing away the loneliness: In the UK, social prescriptions help fight isolation during the pandemic
Woman carry jerry cans filled with water at Kuresyon village in Galkayo, Somalia.
Climate Change
Drought, high temps in Somalia are pushing people to move to other towns
Refugees wait to travel back to Ukraine from the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland
Coronavirus Conversations
Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe
Ukrainian refugees wait for a transport at the central train station in Warsaw, Poland
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe
Developing mixed use and mixed income neighbourhoods will help cities recover after the pandemic.
Infrastructure
Inclusion, walkability will be key to rebuilding cities after the pandemic
Pupils wear face masks as they attend class at Kitante Primary School in Kampala, Uganda
Education
Uganda’s schools reopen, ending world’s longest lockdown
Rev. Giuseppe Corbari in a small town in Lombardy printed out pictures of his congrgants and placed them on the pews so he'd feel less alone. 
COVID-19
Amid lockdown, churches find creative ways to keep in touch with the masses
A child receives free polio vaccine during a government-led mass vaccination program in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, October 14, 2019.
Health & Medicine
Massive vaccine campaign underway in the Philippines after polio’s return
In Venezuela, two volunteers help a protester overcome by tear gas. The volunteers are mostly medical students who provide first aid at the anti-government demonstrations.
Economics
Short of gauze and bandages, Venezuelan medical students patch up anti-government protesters
Migrants stand in line to receive free food outside a derelict customs warehouse in Belgrade
Conflict
In Serbia, migrants are held in terrible conditions — from which they can’t leave
A family is pictured at the entrance of their house at a slum, or favela, in Rio de Janeiro
Economics
Sluggish global economy forestalls UN effort to end extreme poverty
A group meets at IIX Impact Institute
Business
A novel investment exchange in Asia is rewarding entrepreneurs who want to make the world better
Medical stretchers are seen abandoned along the corridors at the main hospital during a strike
Health
Kenya tries to come to grips with treating mental illness
Sita Adhikari
Conflict
As Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal wind down, resettlement program is considered a success
A transgender brothel in Istanbul's run-down Tarlabasi neighborhood.
Justice
Trans people are risking their lives in Istanbul
Aisu shows off an Ebola text message he recently received.
Development
Uganda is leading the world in the fight to find a vaccine for Ebola
A health worker fumigates a residential area to prevent the spread of dengue fever in Chandigarh, India, September 20, 2015.
Health
India struggles to get a handle on mosquito-borne diseases
Go glam makeup hair hijab
Business
Forget pizza. In Jakarta, this delivery app will send a stranger to style your hijab.
Zika fumigation in Singapore
Health
How Singapore became a role model in the fight against Zika
Workers in biohazard suits stand at the entry of a sealed-off poultry farm in Trumling, southern Germany, on Sep. 8, 2007. The H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in several ducks at a nearby poultry farm.
Conflict
Are we ready for the next epidemic?
The work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta is increasingly international in scope.
Health
The CDC is stepping up in the global fight against infectious disease
Salvaging Haiti's cacao crop after Hurricane Matthew
Development
Haitian cacao farmers scramble to get their ‘success story’ back on track
Three-month-old Jesus, photographed on Oct. 5 in Guarenas, Venezuela, was born with microcephaly
Health
Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?
Ertha Papillon
Development
With no public officials in sight, a local Haitian leader takes matters into her own hands
Port Salut
Justice
A once-dreamy Haitian beach town picks up the pieces after Hurricane Matthew
Migrants on dock at Capurgana, Colombia
Development
With Olympics over, Haitian workers are leaving Brazil for the US in big numbers
Shimon Peres was a proud holder of an Israeli organ donor card.
Belief
Shimon Peres wanted Israelis to be organ donors — like him
Tetanus vaccinations like this one, at Palmview High School in Mission, Texas, are harder to come by in Ukraine.
Health
Why rabies and tetanus are back in Ukraine
A giant cross stands on top of the Mount Qanat Bakish in Lebanon, in a photo from Oct. 1, 2010.
Education
Americans in Lebanon say they’re on a mission from God to teach Syrian refugee kids
A worker fogs the corridor
Health
Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections
Development & Education
World is ticking toward a milestone: 7 billionth person expected on Halloween
Global Politics
The sex talk: How a European country might help Americans get a handle on it
Women attend an evangelical church service in Almolonga, Guatemala.
Development
Did religion save this Guatemalan town?
Women attend an evangelical church service in Almolonga, Guatemala.
Development
Did religion save this Guatemalan town?