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1 week ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Jacob Goldberg

Republish this article Bangladeshi authorities and healthcare workers have for months sought to prevent Rohingya births by coercing refugee women to use long-term contraceptives, according to several refugee women and aid workers based in camps in the country’s southern Cox’s Bazar district. Between March and May this year, five Rohingya refugee women told The New Humanitarian that doctors, nurses, or camp authorities forced or pressured them to be fitted with intrauterine devices, or IUDs....

1 week ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Patrick Gathara

Republish this article Editor’s note: This column, Decolonise How? charts efforts towards more ethical reporting of humanitarian crises.

2 weeks ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Augustine Passilly

Republish this article Civilians escaping government airstrikes and land offensives in South Sudan are taking refuge in makeshift shelters along rivers and crossing into camps in Ethiopia, as analysts warn that a long flawed peace deal has now totally collapsed. The government, led by President Salva Kiir, has been launching barrel bombs at communities in parts of the northeastern Upper Nile state, since self-defense forces known as the White Army overran a military base in the area in March....

2 weeks ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Jacob Goldberg

Republish this article For EU countries that have long wrestled with the difficulty of deporting migrants, a digital tool created by the UN’s migration agency, IOM, has promised much. But critics fear it is accelerating flawed deportation processes that are prone to rights abuses and short on safeguards. An investigation by The New Humanitarian suggests the Readmission Case Management System, or RCMS, may have been used to deport migrants who had legal permission to stay in the EU, as well as...

3 weeks ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Ali M. Latifi

Republish this article Almost immediately after the 22 April attack that killed 26 people in Indian-administered Kashmir, India pointed its finger at regional rival Pakistan, alleging that the deadliest attack in the valley since 2019 had “cross-border linkages”. In the ensuing weeks, New Delhi has repeatedly used that accusation to target Pakistan with military strikes – dubbed Operation Sindoor – despite providing no clear evidence to support it. It hasn’t just been rockets that have been...