Seventy-Six Years: Why Is Doctors' Day Also a Humanitarian Question?

A Venice prize-winning documentary on Israeli targeting has reached Indonesian cinemas. Its most uncomfortable evidence is not a death toll but the vocabulary that lets ordinary men keep working.

The Venice prize-winning film on Israeli targeting systems reached Indonesian cinemas on 16 October. Its subject is a single field in a targeting workflow: the number of civilians an attack is expected to kill.

The Global Health Centre in Geneva is accepting applications until 8 November 2026 for a tuition-free, twelve-month programme. Travel, visas and release time remain with the participant.

A strike on shops at a market in Yemen’s Ta’iz province killed seven people and wounded forty, according to health authorities in Sanaa. The government in Aden described the same event differently, and no independent verification has been published.

From a 1987 mountain rescue to searching for a downed airliner in 2026, Search and Rescue Universitas Hasanuddin has run at least 77 recorded operations across four decades, a case study in sustained community-based disaster response.

Warming temperatures are opening new territory to disease-carrying mosquitoes and shifting outbreak seasons away from historic patterns, as Indonesia records nearly 60,000 dengue cases in the first half of 2026 alone.

Continuous eruption since Friday has pushed volcanic ash across at least six provinces, closed Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport overnight, and dusted Cianjur, where Ummanitarian volunteers are documenting the fallout.

IOM provided humanitarian assistance to 17.8 million people across 170 countries and territories in 2025, shelter for 7.3 million and 4.2 million health consultations, even as global funding contracted and needs reached unprecedented levels.

A UN-backed assessment finds malnutrition rising across Afghanistan — an estimated 21.9 million people in need — while the country's 2026 Humanitarian Response Plan stands only 26 per cent funded.

New displacement across Sudan's Kordofan region climbed from 132,000 people in February to over 219,000 by late June, IOM reports, as fighting spreads to new towns and donor funding fails to keep pace.