Ethical and practical challenges of online research interviews
A recent research paper has shone a light on the ethical and technological challenges of interviewing humanitarian practitioners in post-conflict settings. We summarise its main …
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Is The Internet Misleading Us About Conflict Casualty Figures?
A research paper by Mary Grace Flaherty and Leslie F. Roberts published by Conflict and Health looks at the accuracy of internet search results relating to death …
A special issue of Disasters looks at “Gender, sexuality, and violence in humanitarian crises”
A special issue of the Disasters journal published at the start of 2018 looks at the complexity of tackling gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian scenarios. We …
Close ties: the relationship between NGOs and journalism in humanitarian news and picture generation
With many news outlets cutting their foreign news budgets, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become key players in content creation and distribution from conflict zones and …
“Safety Culture” in Human Rights Journalism
Guest Editorial by Dr. Lindsay Palmer, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Human rights reporting is a notoriously dangerous profession. Because human rights …
South Sudan: Reporting humanitarian crisis in the world’s youngest country
As the greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945 unfolds, the international community is struggling to respond to widespread starvation and human need. One of the most …