Jamie Munn, ICVA

Grateful to Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social‬ joining us at ICVA @icvanetwork.bsky.social and taking time to listen directly to our NGO colleagues, including those from South Sudan and Lebanon.
ICVA will keep advocating clearly, consistently, and collectively for NGOs & communities.

 

Insecurity and climate crises push thousands to the edge in #BurkinaFaso.

Aid efforts are maxed out and communities overwhelmed.

I’ve allocated $5.9M from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian partners to deliver food, shelter, health and protection.

We are only asking for 1% of what the world spent last year on defence. And we can save over 100m lives.

Let’s get our collective priorities right.

My speech at #ECOSOCHAS: bit.ly/3SXbANj

🏳️‍🌈 This Pride season, the silence feels louder, and the cuts run deeper.

I wrote about what’s being lost and what we must not let go of @GenevaSolutions:
“Quiet Cuts and Loud Silences”
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Take a moment to read and reflect. #Pride2025 #Humanitarian

Timely and necessary.

@potustrump47.bsky.social and McCarthy intersect on:
1) weaponisation of fear
2) demand loyalty tests
3) disregard for factual scrutiny
4) institutional corrosion
5) ethically unmoored
6) morally hollow

The U.S. veto today at the UNSC is a shameful abuse of power.

Calling the resolution “divorced from reality” is itself a despicable distortion of reality. What’s truly divorced is the U.S. position from the suffering of civilians.

This is not leadership. It’s complicity. #Gaza #UNSC #CeasefireNow

#gaza #sudan | Reshma K. Adatia Today I represented ICVA Network and our members in a number of essential conversations, keeping the focus on humanitarian response and the populations in crisis around the world - particularly #Gaza ...

Reshma Adatia speaks truth on leadership, equity & responsibility in humanitarian action. Glad to see @icvanetwork.bsky.social voice in the room.
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Canadians have cooled on US travel Mexico is looking like a much better option.

Canadians make up the largest proportion—nearly 28 percent—of international travelers visiting Florida. They also comprise the largest number of international visitors for the entire United States.

But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.

❝Quiet cuts and loud silences: this year’s Pride carries a heavier weight - Geneva Solutions US president Donald Trump’s assault on diversity initiatives has had a silencing effect on many of Geneva’s humanitarian organisations, writes Jamie Munn, the director of the International Council for...

Let this month be a reminder not just of how far we’ve come, but of what we must now defend – openly, actively and without apology.

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Hard to overstate how grave the situation is.
Humanitarian principles must be respected.
Aid must be allowed in.
People in Gaza need food, water, and safety—now.
#HumanitarianPrinciples #AidAccess #Gaza #InternationalLaw

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Humanitarian Funding in Perspective | Jamie Munn Imagine telling 300 million vulnerable people that the world spent more on sunglasses and Valentine’s Day than on their survival. Nothing says 'we care' quite like chocolate hearts and designe...

Read, follow, engage with me and @icvanetwork.bsky.social on LinkedIn
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Why It Feels Like We Are Shouting Into the Void – But We Must Keep It Up As I reflect on my career in humanitarian advocacy, I often find myself grappling with a deep, persistent feeling: the sensation that we are shouting into the void. The world is filled with overwhelmi...

Happy to share this “pep talk” or maybe it is just the lies I tell myself 😂😂

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Dear Canadians,

Can we please start a petition to Stop the Crime of Poilievres kissing before and after every speech???

Here is a new slogan for #Poilievre:

End the Cringe

#canadianelection #neverPoilievre

Watching the US admin fumble classified war plans like a drunk losing their keys is one thing, but let’s be real - half of them couldn’t find Canada on a map if we circled it in red. Maybe that’s for the best.

#PeteHegseth, Stephen Miller & lil #JDVance frat boy wannabes who’d flop at band camp too

Stepping Out of the Geneva Rhetoric Machine: Five Things NGOs Must Do Now | Jamie Munn | 11 comments We can move beyond endless discussions and start implementing long-overdue changes in the humanitarian sector. The system isn’t “broken,” but it is outdated… | 11 comments on LinkedIn

We can move beyond endless discussions and start implementing long-overdue changes in the humanitarian sector. The system isn’t “broken,” but it is outdated, inefficient, and resistant to necessary reform.

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While the world focuses on Gaza, the occupied #WestBank faces unprecedented violence, displacement & rising humanitarian needs.
Destruction in #JeninCamp forces more families from their homes. These demolitions must stop. Systematic destruction violates IHL & can't be normalized.

As a new school year begins, 2.2 million Afghan girls are barred from education. What are men so afraid of? An educated girl is a stronger society. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

Happy Nowruz to all celebrating!

A time for renewal, hope, and solidarity—especially for communities facing hardship. Wishing strength to those working for a better, more just world.

May this year bring peace, resilience, and progress. Nowruzetan Pirouz! #Nowruz #Solidarity

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."

Why did @pierrepoilievremp.bsky.social bring a magic wand to parliament?
Because it was the only way he knew how to make robust policies appear!!

Ar Brussels Conference for Syria earlier this week, pitching for support.

The cost of failure is far greater than the cost of our plan to back hope for the Syrian people.

Geneva Palais briefing note: Children in Sudan: a generation at risk This is an overview of remarks by UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Lucia Elmi – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

'Sudan’s children are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. I returned last week from a country where conflict, displacement, and hunger are destroying young lives."

UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan

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United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, painted by Bo Beskow

Hammarskjöld said, “The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”

In 2025, the Security Council is incapable of even that. Wars rage, ppl starve & atrocities go unanswered. Is the mandate not peace & security? The world burns while the Council debates. Pathetic.

I have no doubt that @chrislockyear.msf.org could have spoken for hours about the horrific crimes of war in Sudan. But the real question is - what will the #UNSC do? They’ve mastered the art of listening, but where is the action on Peace and Security?

Genuine question: How many eggs do Americans eat for egg prices to be a bigger crisis than consumer protection disappearing, federal employees being fired without notice and humanitarian aid getting cut?

What It Looks Like for Australia to Promote Compliance with International Humanitarian Law and Protection of Civilians.

ICVA joined the launch of the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue's paper to discuss the crisis in Myanmar and Australia’s role in upholding International Humanitarian Law and Protection of Civilians.

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I’ve had this sticker on my water bottle for a while - now it’s coming with me to every government meeting I attend. A small reminder of the big commitments they have failed to uphold.

#Accountability #HumanitarianAction

Jamie Munn on LinkedIn: Alternate Universe or Reality? When 'Good Humanitarian Donors' Slash Aid… I’ve written this after receiving yet another gut-wrenching message from a "Good Humanitarian Donor". It is a disturbing trend among the world’s top…

So fed up with the hypocrisy of “good humanitarian donors”

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Tomorrow marks two months since my dad passed away. I miss him every day and still find myself talking to him - sometimes out loud, sometimes just in my head. His presence is still with me in so many ways, but the silence where his voice should be is something I feel deeply.

If your #NGO isn’t a member of @icvanetwork.bsky.social I encourage you to pally and join our growing network of principled #humanitarians.