Innovation - What's new?

Alexander Aleinikoff, deputy high commissioner for refugees at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), is frank about the challenge of innovating within what he refers to as “stodgy and sclerotic” UN organizations. He says: “I have not been to one of our operations where people aren't doing really new and interesting things; they just don't tell headquarters about it. Because they are sure that if they tell headquarters it'll be squashed.” full report

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The past decade has seen dramatic advances in the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

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It will include reports on the humanitarian fall-out over barriers to healthcare access; and the frequent failure of the aid industry to include programming for gay people in their disaster response.