Canadian Network on Humanitarian History

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

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

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

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

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

"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

"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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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.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215... @aidhistory.bsky.social @les-libraires.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social

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

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...

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...

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

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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...

A screenshot of the home page of the database

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

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

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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...

[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-...

[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.

[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.

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

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

Our 2025 Bulletin is out! News of members, events, AGM information, etc. aidhistory.ca/sixteenth-bu...
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Dr Crossen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Sámi Studies at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway & Visiting Scholar at Carleton University, Department of History He will present his work on Indigenous Women’s Internationalism for 45 minutes. An exchange will follow, including a report on the research he is conducting in Ottawa this June on the international aid work of Inuit Circumpolar Council, and discussions on common interests. The event is co-hosted by the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History (CNHH) and Carleton University Department of History. To know more, read Dr Crossen’s blog on the CNHH website: International cooperation between Indigenous peoples in the late twentieth century : inter-governmental undertakings and the history of Indigenous rights, May 5, 2025. A virtual version will be streamed at this address: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/6543041746 Please contact Dominique Marshall (dominque_marshall@carleton.ca ) for more information

Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism
An Afternoon with Dr Jonathan Crossen

Wednesday June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00
Lounge of the Department of History of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paterson Hall 433

Severyan Dyakonov at Carleton University’s Archives and Special Collections, MacOdrum Library. Credit: Dominique Marshall

"Project on the International Red Cross Movement and the Cold War Divide, the 1940s–1980s" a new post on the CNHH website by @severyandyakonov.bsky.social , post-doctoral fellow @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social : aidhistory.ca/project-on-t... ‪@ifrc.org‬ ‪@icrc.org‬ ‪@icrclibrary.bsky.social‬

Canadian postage stamp for the 1965 International co-operation year.

Join the CNHH for its annual meeting at Congress at George Brown University, Monday 2 June 2025, WLF-401, 12:00 - 13:30. To join virtually, contact dominique_marshall@carleton.ca \ @cndhistassoc.bsky.social ‪@jm-turcotte.bsky.social‬

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.