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“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...
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Community Participation and Human Rights Advocacy: Questions Arising from the Campaign about the Right to Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Sergio Bianchi
2014Exploring the evolution of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), this book fills a lacuna in literature on the agency. UNRWA and Palestinian...
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Juego de espejos: Reflexiones sobre la percepción de MSF y la acción humanitaria
Caroline Abu-Sada
2014What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? MSF sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that...
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Humanitarian work in prisons: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières
Jean-Marc Biquet
2014Humanitarian action by NGOs in detention centres is quite rare and poorly documented. Despite the fact that prisoners are among those who have the least access to quality health care services, MSF...
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Perspectives of refugees on returning to Somalia
Caroline Abu-Sada, Sergio Bianchi
2014MSF recently asked Somali refugees in Dadaab’s Dagahaley camp about their living conditions and their thoughts about returning to Somalia in the near future. The responses suggest that bad living...
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The interaction between humanitarian non-governmental organisations and extractive industries: a perspective from Médecins Sans Frontières
Philippe Calain
29.10.2013This opinion note explores some aspects of the relationship between humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and extractive industries. Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders,...
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Don't Shoot the Ambulance: Medicine in the Crossfire
Françoise Duroch
2013As physicians and hospitals providing medical service in war zones multiply, their facilities have increasingly become military targets – placing their medical staff in danger and preventing locals ...
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Humanitarian and medical challenges of assisting new refugees in Lebanon and Iraq
Caroline Abu-Sada
2013The massive and continuing flows of Syrian and Palestinian refugees to Syria’s neighbours have shown the limitations of humanitarian practice and present new challenges for medical and humanitarian ...
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Haiti: Between Emergency and Reconstruction: An inadequate response
Jean-Marc Biquet
2013Authored by Jean-Marc Biquet, this paper focuses on the failure of the aid system in Haiti. The country has been struck by two disasters in a row: the January 2010 earthquake and a cholera epidemic...
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La mirada de los otros : Cómo las poblaciones en crisis perciben la ayuda humanitaria
Caroline Abu-Sada
2013Over the past 40 years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has developed a reputation as an emergency medical humanitarian organization willing to go almost anywhere to deliver...
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Perspectives from the field
Caroline Abu-Sada, Françoise Duroch
2013Since its foundation, MSF has faced different forms of violence against its patients, staff, health facilities and medical vehicles, as well as against national health systems in general. Medical...
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Jeux de miroir : Réflexions sur MSF et l’action humanitaire
Caroline Abu-Sada
2013What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? MSF sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that...