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Understanding the crisis of humanitarian action in the age of climate change

Whether this is the “age of crises”, polycrisis or permacrisis, the idea that we are living in an unprecedented...

Clara Egger - Fernando Espada

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Climate change and humanitarian crises: a nuanced perspective

Rodrigo Mena

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The climate crisis, an opportunity to reform the humanitarian sector

Pierre-Marie Goimard - Chloé Orland - Olivia Pélegrin

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From ecological transition to environmental justice: reflections and dilemmas

Aline Hubert

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One health and planetary health in humanitarian settings

Davide Ziveri - Isabelle Bolon - Rafael Ruiz de Castañeda

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French humanitarian organisations factoring in climate change: what do their dedicated management tools tell us?

Vincent Pradier

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The global food crisis that wasn’t

A so-called “global food crisis” has unfolded since the Russian invasion of Ukraine early 2022 whereas in reality there is no global food shortage, and food stocks are at their highest levels. Frédéric Mousseau explains how corporate profiteers and speculators have taken advantage of the situation at the expense of farmers and consumers and calls […]

Frédéric Mousseau

Reportage

Unsung heroes, Breaking the silence

Unsung Heroes is a joint endeavour undertaken by Denis Rouvre and Médecins du Monde. This photography project “arose from the desire shared with Médecins du Monde to bear witness to the violence in the world as experienced by women” as the photographer said. “For eight months in nine countries worldwide, over one hundred women put their trust […]

Denis Rouvre

Tribune

HIV/AIDS: may our struggle not become undetectable

Despite scientific research, nearly 800,000 people still die from HIV and 1.7 million others are newly infected each year across the world. Allocating financial resources to this struggle is therefore still a need, as the challenge is to maintain more than 37 million people in care throughout their lives. But because HIV infection is also […]

Florence Thune

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Environmental Migrations: future prospects

With the expression “climate refugees” two recurrent headlines are brought together: migrants and climate change. They converge to bring the issue of forced population movements to a level never attained and recall, concerning these migrants of a new type, the question of their legal recognition.

Paul Chiron

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Ukraine-Gaza: Exchange of views

Published on 29 April 2024. The discussion took place on 4 April 2024, as an introduction to the Alternatives Humanitaires General Assembly. The reason why these two conflicts are attracting so much international attention is because they undeniably mark a turning point that Humanitarian Alternatives felt duty-bound to analyse. A complex and ambitious issue of […]

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The Ukraine war as seen by press cartoonists

On the publication of Fichez-nous la paix ! (Leave us in peace!) in the Cartooning for Peace collection, published by Gallimard and in partnership with Amnesty International, Kak and Vladimir Kazanevsky explain the importance of their profession: press cartoonists. Joint interview by Nicolas Foucher of Amnesty International. The president of Cartooning for Peace, Kak is […]

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Interview with Plantu and Reza: “Infuriating doves of peace”

The renowned photographer Reza and Le Monde’s iconic cartoonist Plantu have just published a book in which they revisit eighty or so of their respective photos and cartoons. The publication, which covers a vast range of historical events and global issues – from the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 to the genocide of the Tutsis […]

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Interview with Bruno Cabanes : “Humanitarian Photography”: an historian’s point of view

Bruno Cabanes is an historian, specialised in contemporary history. He is the Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Military History at Ohio State University in the United States. He has written several books on the First World War and the post-war era, including The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 (Cambridge […]

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