Article
Pratiques délictueuses aux portes de l’Europe
Françoise Duroch, Maelle L'Homme
15.11.2023Reports of violence at Greece's borders have multiplied in recent years. A report published in November 2023 by MSF documents the harsh realities experienced by migrants on arrival in Greece, based...
Article
"In Niger, the population has been taken hostage"
Françoise Duroch
20.09.2023Since 30 July, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed a series of sanctions against Niger: commercial and financial transactions have been suspended, the country’s air...
Article
International Humanitarian Law, State sovereignty and the erosion of the humanitarian consensus: the end of humanitarianism?
Duncan McLean
22.07.2023This article examines the dilution of the legal framework on which humanitarian action has historically been based, primarily through the prism of international humanitarian law and related...
Article
"Wichtig ist, Frauen in den Teams zu haben"
Françoise Duroch
12.03.2023How far do aid organisations go to be able to deliver assistance in authoritarian states? A conversation with Françoise Duroch about difficult compromises, working with the Taliban and whether the...
Article
Les ONG et l'autre moitié du monde
Françoise Duroch
25.01.2023At the end of December, the humanitarian sector was informed that women in Afghanistan were banned from working for non-governmental organisations on the grounds that some had been seen working...
Article
Humanitarian discourse and the challenges of migration: the European exception?
Maelle L'Homme
16.12.2021Are non-governmental organisations also guilty of double standards? Reviewing humanitarian actors’ approaches to migration in Europe, the author analyses the demands, intentions and dilemmas that...
Article
Der Schutz der humanitären Arbeit beginnt bei uns selber
Duncan McLean
30.10.2020States always find ways and means to exclude unwanted aid organisations. The drastic tightening of anti-terror legislation is only the latest manifestation of these methods.
Article
Counterterrorism policies and practices: health and values at stake
Philippe Calain
2015The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used a fake vaccination programme to obtain DNA samples in the search for Osama Bin Laden, which caused distrust and hampered polio eradication and ...
Article
Reconstruction of the health sector in Haiti: a missed opportunity?
Maude Montani
2015The impact of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was devastating for a country whose history was already marked by poverty, natural disasters, environmental degradation and political instability. An...
Book
L’urgence d’une souveraineté alimentaire
Caroline Abu-Sada
2014From France, Rony Brauman, former president of MSF France, gives us his reading of the philosophical, political and symbolic stakes of Palestine and of this debate – one that particularly...
Article
“From the American People”: the US Farm Bill and the reform of emergency food aid
James Smith
2014On Nov 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines. Winds of up to 235 km/h cut through the province of Eastern Samar as the storm progressed westwards and further towards the centre of...
Article
Les relations entre acteurs associatifs et Etat, clé de compréhension des Révolutions arabes
Caroline Abu-Sada
2011The new situation created by the 2011 “Arab Spring” goes to the heart of relations between associations, NGOs and governments. Indeed, populations have been placing increased pressure on...