Canadian Network on Humanitarian History
@aidhistory.bsky.social
A multidisciplinary network interested in the history of humanitarian and development aid, archives, and NGOs. Website: aidhistory.ca ; List: https://bsky.app/profile/aidhistory.bsky.social/lists/3lpteuw6chq2s
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Welcome to the new account of the Canadian Network on humanitarian History. We just started a list of "Friends of the Canadian Network in Humanitarian History." Please write if you want to be included.
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Delighted to be part of the team of the new & urgent Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project, based @manchester.ac.uk with @leverhulme.ac.uk & @wellcometrust.bsky.social funds: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l... @aidhistory.bsky.social @internetarchiveca.bsky.social @carleton.ca
Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust Combine Support
Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester in pa...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Delighted to be part of the team of the new & urgent Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project, based @manchester.ac.uk with @leverhulme.ac.uk & @wellcometrust.bsky.social funds: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l... @aidhistory.bsky.social @internetarchiveca.bsky.social @carleton.ca
Join us Monday evening October 6, in person in Ottawa or virtually: "Cold War Consent? Military Experimentation & Research Ethics in Mid-Century Canada," with M. S. Wiseman, History, @uwaterloo.ca Register: tinyurl.com/48hh6r3m@cnd... @activehist.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Join us Monday evening October 6, in person in Ottawa or virtually: "Cold War Consent? Military Experimentation & Research Ethics in Mid-Century Canada," with M. S. Wiseman, History, @uwaterloo.ca Register: tinyurl.com/48hh6r3m@cnd... @activehist.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social
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This new book will interest @aidhistory.bsky.social friends
It’s been such a pleasure working with Emmanuel Destenay (and happy to report we’ll be working together on his next book too!). @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #SHAFR2025
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July 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This new book will interest @aidhistory.bsky.social friends
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A history of the Japanese Red Cross movement, of interest to @aidhistory.bsky.social friends
Our books in global history recognizes that, while we live in an ever more interconnected world, knowledge of the past is essential to understanding the present and the future. Visit us at the SHAFR exhibit hall or online to browse these books and more. buff.ly/2dzH7uW #SHAFR2025 #GlobalHistory
July 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A history of the Japanese Red Cross movement, of interest to @aidhistory.bsky.social friends
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"Pensack is a historian of Latin America, and her writing is on Panama, Guantánamo Bay, humanitarian refugees, Cuban history." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... This will interest friends of @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @oah.org @historians.org @refugejournal.bsky.social @aidhistory.bsky.social
In the Zone | Miriam Pensack, Willa Glickman
One weekend last December, Donald Trump suddenly became fixated on reviving a ghost of US empire—control of the Panama Canal. He has since warned that he
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July 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Pensack is a historian of Latin America, and her writing is on Panama, Guantánamo Bay, humanitarian refugees, Cuban history." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... This will interest friends of @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @oah.org @historians.org @refugejournal.bsky.social @aidhistory.bsky.social
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"Pensack is a historian of Latin America, & her writing is on Panama, Guantánamo Bay, humanitarian refugees, Cuban history." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... This @nybooks.com artile will interest @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @oah.org @historians.org @refugejournal.bsky.social @aidhistory.bsky.social
In the Zone | Miriam Pensack, Willa Glickman
One weekend last December, Donald Trump suddenly became fixated on reviving a ghost of US empire—control of the Panama Canal. He has since warned that he
www.nybooks.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Pensack is a historian of Latin America, & her writing is on Panama, Guantánamo Bay, humanitarian refugees, Cuban history." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... This @nybooks.com artile will interest @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @oah.org @historians.org @refugejournal.bsky.social @aidhistory.bsky.social
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My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc
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July 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215... @aidhistory.bsky.social @les-libraires.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social
Une librairie flottante se promène de port en port en Asie
Dans le port animé de Keelung, à Taïwan, et ailleurs en Asie, le Doulos Hope, un navire-librairie, offre des livres à bas prix et de l’espoir.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Ce bel article du @ledevoir.com de ce matin qui explique les retournements des 10 dernières années de l'opinion publique canadienne sur les refugiés intéressera @refugejournal.bsky.social @monde-diplomatique.fr @unhcr.org @aidhistory.bsky.social @activehist.bsky.social @histoireengagee.ca
Dix ans après l’émoi causé par la photo crève-cœur du petit Alan Kurdi, qu’en reste-t-il ?
Une photo qui a changé des millions de vies
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August 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ce bel article du @ledevoir.com de ce matin qui explique les retournements des 10 dernières années de l'opinion publique canadienne sur les refugiés intéressera @refugejournal.bsky.social @monde-diplomatique.fr @unhcr.org @aidhistory.bsky.social @activehist.bsky.social @histoireengagee.ca
"returning to the way things were prior to new US President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing foreign aid is not the answer." - Foreign aid's ‘white saviour complex’ - by Ritesh Shah newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/03/f... @aidhistory.bsky.social
Foreign aid's ‘white saviour complex’
From the University of Auckland - Opinion: Aid must be freed from the vested interests and racial prejudices that determine who is deserving and who isn't.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The archival collection of John Peter Humphrey at McGill University has been nominated to be inscribed on the Memory of the World International Registry of @unesco.org . This will interest @aidhistory.bsky.social friends, & @historyofrights.bsky.social rights unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The archival collection of John Peter Humphrey at McGill University has been nominated to be inscribed on the Memory of the World International Registry of @unesco.org . This will interest @aidhistory.bsky.social friends, & @historyofrights.bsky.social rights unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
Love a draft cover!
July 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Impact of 2 decades of USAID interventions & projection of effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: retrospective & forecasting analysis in @thelancet.com : www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... / @aidhistory.bsky.social @francoisaudet.bsky.social @jillcm.bsky.social @dwebster.bsky.social
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
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July 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Impact of 2 decades of USAID interventions & projection of effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: retrospective & forecasting analysis in @thelancet.com : www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... / @aidhistory.bsky.social @francoisaudet.bsky.social @jillcm.bsky.social @dwebster.bsky.social
Since February 2025 the ICRC Public Archives have launched their new online catalogue, enabling researchers to browse inventories covering more than a hundred years of humanitarian history! #ArchivesAreAccessible #IAW2025
Explore the Archives online catalogue: archives.icrc.org/search/simple
Explore the Archives online catalogue: archives.icrc.org/search/simple
June 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
To all @activehist.bsky.social readers interested in this topic, please consider attending the CNHH event on June 25, virtually or in person @carleton.ca : "Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism: An Afternoon with Dr @jonathancrossen.bsky.social " carleton.ca/history/cu-e...
June 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
To all @activehist.bsky.social readers interested in this topic, please consider attending the CNHH event on June 25, virtually or in person @carleton.ca : "Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism: An Afternoon with Dr @jonathancrossen.bsky.social " carleton.ca/history/cu-e...
The minutes of the CNHH annual meeting of June 2025 are now posted : future blogs, events, round tables and more aidhistory.ca/minutes-of-t...
Minutes of the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History (CNHH) Annual Meeting – Canadian Network on Humanitarian History
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June 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The minutes of the CNHH annual meeting of June 2025 are now posted : future blogs, events, round tables and more aidhistory.ca/minutes-of-t...
New @aidhistory.bsky.social blog: "State Funding for the Non-Profit Sector" by Dominique Clément, about the new database which lists grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) in Canada since the 1960s. aidhistory.ca/state-fundin... / @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @insidephilanthropy.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New @aidhistory.bsky.social blog: "State Funding for the Non-Profit Sector" by Dominique Clément, about the new database which lists grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) in Canada since the 1960s. aidhistory.ca/state-fundin... / @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @insidephilanthropy.com
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Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...
May 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...
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[FR only] #ArchivesduCrash
📖 Le Crash vous propose de (re)découvrir « Humanitaire et démocraties libérales », une analyse de Michaël Neuman publiée en avril 2024.
👉 Retrouvez l’article sur notre site : msf-crash.org/fr/le-crash-...
📖 Le Crash vous propose de (re)découvrir « Humanitaire et démocraties libérales », une analyse de Michaël Neuman publiée en avril 2024.
👉 Retrouvez l’article sur notre site : msf-crash.org/fr/le-crash-...
Humanitaire et démocraties libérales
Cet article de Michaël Neuman est paru dans le média AOC le 10 avril 2023. L'auteur explore les relations entre l'aide humanitaire et le libéralisme depuis les années 1980 jusqu'à nos jours. Il met en...
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May 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
[FR only] #ArchivesduCrash
📖 Le Crash vous propose de (re)découvrir « Humanitaire et démocraties libérales », une analyse de Michaël Neuman publiée en avril 2024.
👉 Retrouvez l’article sur notre site : msf-crash.org/fr/le-crash-...
📖 Le Crash vous propose de (re)découvrir « Humanitaire et démocraties libérales », une analyse de Michaël Neuman publiée en avril 2024.
👉 Retrouvez l’article sur notre site : msf-crash.org/fr/le-crash-...
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[FR] 📢Comment expliquer l’augmentation des incidents de sécurité enregistrés par MSF France ces dernières années ?
🚨Depuis 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières recense dans une base de données en ligne baptisée SINDY les événements affectant la sécurité physique de son personnel déployé sur le terrain.
🚨Depuis 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières recense dans une base de données en ligne baptisée SINDY les événements affectant la sécurité physique de son personnel déployé sur le terrain.
May 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
[FR] 📢Comment expliquer l’augmentation des incidents de sécurité enregistrés par MSF France ces dernières années ?
🚨Depuis 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières recense dans une base de données en ligne baptisée SINDY les événements affectant la sécurité physique de son personnel déployé sur le terrain.
🚨Depuis 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières recense dans une base de données en ligne baptisée SINDY les événements affectant la sécurité physique de son personnel déployé sur le terrain.
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[EN] 📢How do you explain the spectacular increase in serious security incidents recorded by MSF France in recent years?
🚨Since 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been recording events affecting the physical security of its staff deployed in the field in an online database called SINDY.
🚨Since 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been recording events affecting the physical security of its staff deployed in the field in an online database called SINDY.
May 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
[EN] 📢How do you explain the spectacular increase in serious security incidents recorded by MSF France in recent years?
🚨Since 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been recording events affecting the physical security of its staff deployed in the field in an online database called SINDY.
🚨Since 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been recording events affecting the physical security of its staff deployed in the field in an online database called SINDY.
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My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
June 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
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Spare time while you're in Toronto? Check out the remarkable Asia Pacific Peace Museum.
June 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Spare time while you're in Toronto? Check out the remarkable Asia Pacific Peace Museum.