topic: humanitarianism

No Search, No Rescue: Support and Empathy is a Radical Action
April 1, 2019
When Aylan Kurdi’s little boy body washed up on the shore in Turkey in September 2015, there was global outrage: countless headlines,...
Opinion
Besieged, Twice-over: Activists Push for Food Drops In Deir Ezzor
April 19, 2016
The horror of siege is that it is a manufactured famine, and its miseries are anticipated and slow to manifest. The United Nations, along...
Opinion
The Digital Savior Complex
May 29, 2015
Patrick Meier’s book, Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response , begins with an impressive seven...
Reviews
Beyond Utopia: The History and Future of Human Rights
September 16, 2014
As a preeminent critic of human rights discourse, Samuel Moyn is known for raising important concerns over the uses of “human rights” for...