Humanitarian Aid


Falling Night
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Missionary, Mercenary, Mystic, Misfit
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Chasing Misery: an anthology of essays by women in humanitarian responses
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
We even save a few lives, but only a fraction of the lives that need to be saved. Soon, we will leave and when we leave there will be nothing to take our place. The meningitis epidemic, cholera, measles, typhoid fever, all preventable diseases, will return and continue as before. The only solution is a political solution, national public health programs, responsible corporations who reap only as much as they sow. Shell Oil with a conscience. Nigeria doesn't need us. What we do here is less than ...more
Pamela Grim, Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER

Abhijit Naskar
We don’t need to build a world with one superpower, We gotta build a world where the world is superpower. We don’t need a world rotting in diplomatic gutter, Let’s build a world that has no geopolitical clutter.
Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

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What is the reality of life along the Mexico/US border? How does our regional and national histo…more
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