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Starvation in Afghanistan: beyond the Taliban’s role

United Against Inhumanity (UAI) is an NGO that focuses on the inhumanity of war and the erosion of asylum: www.against-inhumanity.org. Afghanistan is one of the areas of focus for UAI. In March 2022, UAI launched a campaign to reverse policies imposed by the US and some European governments, to freeze the sovereign external reserves of Da Afghanistan Bank […]

Emanuele Giordana

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International humanitarian law at a crossroads

Clara Egger

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International humanitarian law, State sovereignty and the erosion of the humanitarian consensus: the end of humanitarianism?

Duncan McLean - Michiel Hofman

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International humanitarian law and the war in Ukraine: the International Committee of the Red Cross and humanitarian policies

David P. Forsythe

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Can international humanitarian law protect us from the atomic bomb?

Patrice Bouveret

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Reviewing the protection offered to schools under international humanitarian law

Brenda Huaman

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Starvation in Afghanistan: beyond the Taliban’s role

Emanuele Giordana

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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 […]

Kak - Vladimir Kazanevsky

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When the earth quakes

When the earthquake struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023, Alessio Paduano was there on the ground, during a disaster that was essentially a cross-border catastrophe in a geopolitically sensitive region. He brought back these powerful, masterfully taken photographs which not only reveal the earthquake’s impact but also capture the rescue workers’ efforts and the […]

Alessio Paduano - Sophie Alary

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From traumatic stress to stress at work: providing psychological care for Médecins Sans Frontières staff

Over the past thirty years, as the humanitarian sector has become increasingly professional, and society has recognised the importance of psychological well-being, Médecins Sans Frontières’ managers have accepted that an employer is responsible for the mental health of its employees. Following on from the mental-health theme of our last issue, the authors describe how employers […]

Ludovic Joxe - Nicolas Veilleux

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One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: humanitarian needs are as great as ever

Published on February 27, 2023 To quote this article: Sara Germain, Janyck Beaulieu, Stéphanie Maltais, and François Audet, “One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: humanitarian needs are as great as ever”, Humanitarian Alternatives, 27 February 2023, https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/en/2023/02/27/one-year-after-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine A few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we published an article[1]François Audet, Sara Germain […]

Sara Germain - François Audet - Janyck Beaulieu - Stéphanie Maltais

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The Ukraine war as seen by press cartoonists

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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 […]

Culture

Interview with Joël Glasman: Humanitarian statistics

Joël Glasman is a historian and professor at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). Here, the author discusses his book with Vincent Hiribarren, Senior Lecturer in Modern African History, World History and Environmental History at King’s College London. What prompted you to write a book on humanitarian statistics? Statistics have become central to humanitarian decision-making. The omnipresence of […]

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