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Les enjeux informationnels dans la communication humanitaire contemporaine

Information issues in contemporary humanitarian communication

In relations between the media and humanitarian players – which have long been observed and analysed – a strategic interdependence between the two sectors stands out. What also stands out are challenges in the independence of each sector and in the veracity of information. Over the past fifty years,...

Dana Popescu-Jourdy - Valérie Gorin

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Le rôle essentiel de la communication humanitaire à l’ère de la mésinformation et de « l’infobésité »

The crucial role of humanitarian communication in the fake news and “infoglut” era

Lubiana Gosp-Server

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Communiquer, témoigner, résister : la prise de parole publique de Médecins Sans Frontières face à la désinformation

Communicating, witnessing, resisting: the public voice of Médecins Sans Frontières in the face of disinformation

Andrea Bussotti - Agnès Varraine-Leca - Anaïs Deprade

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Les chiffres comme déclencheurs de l’émotion : enjeux des données dans la communication et le plaidoyer humanitaires

Figures as emotional triggers: data issues in humanitarian communication and advocacy

Émilie Poisson

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Entre savoir « tacite » et « explicite » : la communication humanitaire en quête d’une troisième voie

Between “tacit” and “explicit” knowledge: humanitarian communication in search of a third way

Tom Ansell

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La valeur du témoignage à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

The value of testimony in the age of artificial intelligence

Amal Abou El Ghayt-Huart

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A new era for aid: prioritising people and protecting progress

As donor budgets shrink and crisis-hit populations face abandonment, IRC charts a data-driven path forward. Through evidence-based targeting, proven innovations, and local partnerships, the organisation demonstrates how strategic action can maximise impact even amid unprecedented cuts. Humanitarian aid is facing a make-or-break moment. While global needs and extreme poverty are soaring to new highs, traditional […]

Aid in danger

Geneva’s Role as a Centre for International Cooperation Faces a New Challenge from the U.S.

Published on 10 April 2025 Stability in the Balance Geneva, French-speaking Switzerland’s largest city, is celebrated as the birthplace of Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the seat of the League of Nations, and the home of the Geneva Conventions, the bedrock of international humanitarian law. Today, it is […]

Aid in danger

Can anything positive come out of this crisis?

Published on 24th April 2025 The decisions of the new US administration to freeze aid and abolish USAID has sent shockwaves through the system. USA is the largest bilateral ODA (Official Development Assistance) donor, and this decision is already having significant impact, both within the US (job losses, cutback on domestic programs) and abroad (communities not […]

Aid in danger

We are becoming insanely indifferent to the world’s misfortunes

Published on 11 March 2025 The collapse of western funding for international aid – for both emergency humanitarian operations and official development assistance (ODA) – is a major blow. The dramatic consequences for the neglected populations are the result of the structural weaknesses – evident for years[1] Collective opinion, « Il faut un nouveau pacte mondial pour […]

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Coloniality and intersectionality in mental health: a rallying call

The mental health and psychosocial support sector has largely fallen under the thumb of neoliberal logic by declining its concepts and standards. Carried away by a double movement of standardisation and expansion, it must integrate other methods and practices that enable individuals to recover. In many parts of the world, the mental healthcare pathway is […]

Christian Laval - Guillaume Pégon - Marie Viviane Goupougouni Leni

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From Geneva to Moscow: opposite poles of the freedom of association spectrum

Freedom of association is conceived, practised and defended in very different ways by States around the world. Here, Kouassi Aimé Malanhoua attempts to present the widest possible spectrum which, spanning Geneva to Moscow, reveals all the nuances of a freedom under threat.

Kouassi Aimé Malanhoua

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Lessons in localisation: the Fondation de France’s experiences in Nepal and in Indonesia

At a time when local actors’ capacities are progressively gaining recognition in the field of international aid[1]The Grand Bargain’s second commitment, established in the wake of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in 2016, pledged “More support and funding tools for local and national responders”. … Continue reading, what lessons has the Fondation de France drawn […]

Chaerul Umam - Haryanti Sunarta - Karine Meaux - Patrick Verbruggen

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Can gangs play a role in providing relief?

The thesis is daring, but in the extreme context of urbanisation and violence in Latin America, it deserves to be asked. In this article, indeed, the author analyses the extent to which gangs could play a role in providing relief to populations. More questioning than affirmative, Diego Otegui calls above all to overcome simplistic visions […]

Diego R. Fernandez Otegui

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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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