MIHANDS has always been fueled by people, not deep pockets. Because we lack the massive financial reserves and pre-staged stockpiles of larger international agencies, our response standard operating procedure is a race against time to mobilize—gathering our volunteer network, fundraising, and sourcing materials from scratch whenever a crisis hits.
The devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Southern Mindanao tested us, but our community answered the call. After days of intense preparation (…)

Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates Dessalines Day, commemorating the assassination in 1806 of the country's first head of state postindependence, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
One of the founding fathers in the struggle for Haitian independence, alongside Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines has a mixed legacy: celebrated at home for his role in ending slavery and overthrowing French colonial rule, but often condemned internationally for his violent tactics and the 1804 killing of white French people (…)

Ahead of its first match in the 2026 World Cup, the Haitian national soccer team was forced to make a last-minute change. But it didn't have anything to do with its roster or travel plans. It was the team's jersey.
FIFA, the sport's global governing body, said the jersey design violated its rules, which ban political slogans or imagery.
FIFA banned Haiti's original jersey due its nod to the Haitian Revolution on the right hip of the jersey. Leonardo Fernandez/Getty Images
FIFA didn't (…)

This Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (API, Indonesian Women's Alliance) press release demands that the Prabowo–Gibran government answer for the deepening cost-of-living crisis, rising unemployment, and systematic violence against women. The statement insists that the current crisis is not an isolated event but the accumulation of state policies that have failed to protect the people. [WL]
The Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (API, Indonesian Women's Alliance) is calling for collective action to (…)

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval. Hockney made success look effortless: all colour, good humour, great glasses, cigarettes and smoky charm. But for a young gay artist from a northern mill town, nothing about that journey was effortless.
Hockney knew what it was to be judged before he was properly seen. In Britain, class prejudice (…)

Israël a fermé ses frontières aux travailleurs de Cisjordanie après le 7 octobre. Mais poussés par le désespoir, des milliers d'entre eux trouvent le moyen de passer — et la police israélienne continue de leur tirer dessus.
Des Palestiniens utilisent une corde pour escalader la clôture qui sépare la ville d'Al-Ram de Jérusalem-Est, le 12 janvier 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Le mardi 12 mai a commencé comme tant d'autres pour Zakaria Qatousa, un père de quatre enfants âgé de 44 ans (…)

The West Philippine Sea dispute has exposed a fault line within the Philippine left between those who oppose Chinese maritime aggression while accepting US military expansion as a necessary counterweight, and those who reject both. The independent left Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, has drifted toward accommodation with the Marcos administration's strategic alignment with Washington, including the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and US rotational forces. The Partido Lakas ng (…)

Tran To Nga, an 84-year-old Vietnamese-French activist exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, appeared before France's highest court for civil and criminal matters on 16 June 2026, confronting fourteen agrochemical multinationals --- including Bayer-Monsanto and Dow Chemical --- that supplied the defoliant to the US military. Two lower courts had previously dismissed her case on grounds of jurisdictional immunity, holding that the companies acted under US government orders and could (…)

Face à des canicules toujours plus précoces, la paléoclimatologue critique un « déni de responsabilité » de la part des politiques et s'inquiète d'une « trumpisation » en France, entre coupes budgétaires et licenciement de scientifiques.
Les prochains jours s'annoncent suffocants. Le 17 juin, 24 départements ont été placés en vigilance jaune canicule par Météo-France, à l'approche de ce qui se dessine comme la toute première vague de chaleur de l'année 2026. Et sa précocité, au même titre (…)

This essay by Daniel Bensaïd remains one of the sharpest engagements with Lenin's political thought from within the revolutionary Marxist tradition. Bensaïd identifies Lenin's enduring contribution not as an organisational technique or a party model, but as a philosophy of political time: an understanding of history as fractured, uneven, and shot through with crises that open and close with brutal speed. Against the linear temporality of social-democratic evolutionism, Bensaïd's Lenin is a (…)

La Franco-Vietnamienne Tran To Nga a confronté devant la Cour de cassation ses arguments à ceux de 14 firmes agrochimiques qui ont fabriqué l'agent orange durant la guerre du Vietnam. Le jugement sera rendu le 16 septembre.
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Paris, reportage
Elle a tenu parole et n'a rien lâché. La Franco-Vietnamienne Tran To Nga avait rendez-vous devant la Cour de cassation de Paris, mardi 16 juin, pour faire face à treize multinationales productrices de l'agent orange utilisé par (…)