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Sep 26
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THE NEW HUMANITARIAN
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The 80th UN General Assembly should be consequential given all that’s happening: the genocide in Gaza, spiralling emergencies, aid cuts, the crisis of trust in the UN system. But does the rhetoric in New York match the urgency we see across the globe?


From UNGA’s high-level week in New York, producer Levi Sharpe and host Tammam Aloudat unpack events, contrast the Gaza flotilla with the suits at UN headquarters, and discuss what it all says about where humanitarian action is heading.


Guest: 


Tammam Aloudat, CEO of The New Humanitarian, and host of the Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast.
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