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 (…)