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      Mukesh Kapila

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      Mukesh Kapila is professor emeritus at the University of Manchester, and served in senior roles at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Nations, World Health Organisation, International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, and advised multilateral bodies including World Bank, and NGOs. His work in global health, humanitarian affairs, conflict and security, international development, human rights, and diplomacy has received many awards and taken him to 120 countries.
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      CommentOur incredibly wealthy world can easily afford to curb humanitarian suffering

      But to do so, the international system needs to end the trend of doing less-with-less

      CommentMay 14, 2026
      EPA / Getty / Reuters
      Weekend EssayThe humanitarian toll of the Iran war extends far beyond its battlefields

      From refugee crises to disrupted aid routes, the conflict's human cost is accelerating worldwide

      CommentApril 03, 2026
      A Lebanese man receives a cholera vaccine during a vaccination campaign on November 12, 2022. Economies and efficiencies forced by funding changes could be opportunities to help countries stand on their own feet. EPA
      CommentWhy the panic about global health funding is overblown

      Healthcare agencies face many challenges but financing doesn't have to be one of them

      CommentMarch 13, 2026
      A temporary camp set up in a pagoda in Cambodia's Siem Reap province last month, amid clashes along the Cambodia-Thailand border. AFP
      CommentIn the new world disorder, international law is bordering on the irrelevant

      New norms and laws are necessary as the world transitions away from a rules-based order

      OpinionJanuary 13, 2026
      Despite efforts made by the UN and other agencies, aid givers were reluctant to invest in long-term capacity building. Reuters
      CommentWe need to rethink the UN Sustainability Development Goals

      Before finding a new development strategy, it's important to understand the rise and fall of the global goals

      CommentDecember 19, 2025
      Locals walk past electricity pylons during frequent power cuts, in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa. Reuters
      CommentThe key to tackling climate change is not what we think

      A globally agreed framework for sustainable development is faltering with barely a third of targets on track

      CommentNovember 19, 2025
      Former senior commander of the Sudanese Janjaweed militia Ali Muhammad Ali Abd Al Rahman was found guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between August 2003 and March 2004. AFP
      How to bring a Sudanese military leader to justice

      Ali Kushayb was guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between August 2003 and March 2004

      CommentNovember 05, 2025
      Survivors of Israeli bombardment at a trauma ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
      CommentWhat the ‘Gaza Polytrauma Syndrome’ reveals about the conduct of the war

      It is vital to ensure unpalatable truths from the two-year-long conflict are not buried

      CommentOctober 08, 2025
      Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on the escalator to attend the 80th UN General Assembly, in New York City, on September 23. Reuters
      CommentAs Trump said, what is the purpose of the UN?

      Eighty years after its formation the Second World War the UN body faces more than one challenge, including several wars

      CommentSeptember 29, 2025
      People eat after a round of food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycee Marie Jeanne school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 2, 2024. The weaponisation of food today is no different than in historic wars where millions perished. AFP
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      Countering the weaponisation of food requires limiting the duration of wars

      CommentAugust 22, 2025
      A woman lights a candle as others hold headscarves to symbolise the mothers of those killed, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, in Belgrade on July 11. AFP
      CommentThe legacy of Srebrenica and why today's wars never seem to end

      The sanctity of national boundaries is a recent innovation against history’s repeated wars over land that has strong symbolic value everywhere

      CommentJuly 24, 2025
      A nuclear test explosion from April 1954 is shown in this un-datelined photo from the US Defence Department.
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      Escalating risks require an urgent reset of the international rules-based order

      CommentJune 26, 2025
      Hundreds of internally displaced Palestinians gather outside a charity kitchen in Gaza city to receive limited food rations earlier this month. EPA
      CommentThe Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the best of bad options

      At this stage, it may be the only option to deliver aid to the besieged territory

      CommentMay 27, 2025
      A Palestinian girl waits for her falafel to be prepared at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 28. AFP
      Humanitarianism has to keep pace with the changing political climate

      Preserving aid's ancient principles is still possible even with a more practical approach

      CommentMay 01, 2025
      A street vendor walks past the USAID office in Abidjan on March 22. AFP
      CommentCountries need to go back to the drawing board on foreign aid

      The shifted world order requires a radical re-envisioning of how much is spent on aid and assistance

      CommentApril 03, 2025
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