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Ukraine-Gaza: exchange of views

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was violently reignited following the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023, has practically pushed the Russia-Ukraine war off the geopolitical map.[1]« L’Ukraine menacée d’être une victime collatérale de la guerre de Gaza », France Inter, 9 novembre 2023, … Continue reading The eyes of the world have since turned […]

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Threats to international humanitarian law in Ukraine and Gaza

Leonard Rubenstein

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Accusations and counteraccusations of genocide: what does the law say?

Paul Chiron

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Ukraine, Gaza: double standards

Rony Brauman

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Ukraine-Palestine: a comparative anatomy of selective humanity

Jean-François Corty

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Ukraine-Gaza: the disappearance of strategy

Vincent Desportes

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The double bind facing civil society organisations: the Swiss example

What is happening in Switzerland, the birthplace of the International Committee of the Red Cross and a stronghold of international organisations and non-governmental organisations alike? The author calls our attention to a case which – in the shadow of the debate on the influence of companies and the neo-liberal model – could well mark an offensive against […]

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“It’s a process for de-politicizing NGOs, a shameful capitulation…”

Published on April 8, 2018 Does the pragmatism of some hide an alignment with neo-liberal doctrine and the “healthy and critical distance from the private for-profit sector” of others guarantee the survival of militant humanitarian action?

Bertrand Bréqueville

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Humanitarian action in the face of civic mobilisations. The example of the Senegalese movement Y en a marre

How can humanitarian rhetoric be mobilised in the context of civic struggles in the Souths and how can such mobilisations call out to humanitarian NGOs from the North? Thomas Fouquet invites us to reflect upon this interwoven issue, as he retraces the first media and political successes of the Senegalese movement Y en a marre […]

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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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