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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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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · May 23

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.

Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · 4d

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

Boy and girl together left; right: the same boy as soldier.

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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Jul 11

This new book will interest @aidhistory.bsky.social friends

Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · Jun 28

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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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Jul 11

A history of the Japanese Red Cross movement, of interest to @aidhistory.bsky.social friends

Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

Use CUP20SM to save 20% at cup.columbia.edu. Global History: A World More Equal, Black Lives Under Nazism, A History of Uyghur Buddhism, Inlands, Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire, and The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China.

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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Jul 14

"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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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Jul 14

"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

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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Feb 25

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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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Aug 1

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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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · Aug 30

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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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · 28d

"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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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · 26d

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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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · Jul 8

Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Jun 21

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · Jun 21

Love a draft cover!

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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · Jul 8

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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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · Jun 12

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ICRC_Library @icrclibrary.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · Jun 12

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...

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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · Jun 12

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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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

A screenshot of the home page of the database

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · May 23

Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...

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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · May 23

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Jean-Michel Turcotte @jm-turcotte.bsky.social · Apr 16

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My recent article published!

Rising Above Captivity: The War Prisoners’ Aid of the YMCA, the United States and Global Humanitarian Action during the Second World War

This article examines the work of the War Prisoners’ Aid (WPA) of the World Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) during the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1945, this humani...

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CRASH - Médecins sans frontières @msf-crash.bsky.social · May 26

[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-...

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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CRASH - Médecins sans frontières @msf-crash.bsky.social · May 26

[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.

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CRASH - Médecins sans frontières @msf-crash.bsky.social · May 26

[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.

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 1

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

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · Jun 3

Spare time while you're in Toronto? Check out the remarkable Asia Pacific Peace Museum.

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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · May 28

Our 2025 Bulletin is out! News of members, events, AGM information, etc. aidhistory.ca/sixteenth-bu...
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Sixteenth Bulletin of the CNHH, May 2025 – Canadian Network on Humanitarian History

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