Good morning, this is Kasmira. Humanitarian archives are in danger, a group of historians, aid experts and archive specialists have warned, though not the immediate catastrophic threat you might imagine. Instead, it's the slow deterioration that comes when records become digitally obsolete, are neglected or relegated to the bottom of a cash-strapped humanitarian organisation's to-do list.
Historian Bertrand Taithe, behind a coalition to save humanitarian archives, says that without that memory, organisations risk repeating past failures.
In other news, non-profit neglected disease drug developers are also being squeezed by funding cuts. And a seasoned French diplomat returns to lead pandemic annex talks. |
Inside the archives of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, on 15 November, 2007. (Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)
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