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...
India through Western eyes: a different way of managing humanitarian aid?
The rise of sovereignty does not spare humanitarian aid. A prime example of this trend, India rejects foreign interventionism on its territory while making humanitarian aid a component of its...
Taliban policies are a nightmare; so are economic warfare and starvation
Is it moral to deprive Afghans of their State’s sovereign wealth on the grounds that the Taliban took control of the country on 15 August 2021? Without ignoring the dramatic...
Afghanistan: eternal turmoil
At the age of 25, having studied art and photography at Université Paris 8, Sandra Calligaro travelled to Kabul to fulfil her teenage dream of becoming a war correspondent. Having...
The impact of generational change on humanitarian aid
Sophie Zaccaria est copilote du Focus de ce numéro, avec la participation de Pierre Gallien, directeur Impact, Information et Innovation à Humanité & Inclusion
“Afghan Stories: Waiting for Hope” by Sandra Calligaro
After studying art and photography at the University of Paris 8, Sandra Calligaro oriented her career to the field reporting and went to Afghanistan for the first time in 2007....
Perspectives on a fractured world
Photos and Captions © William Daniels Interview for Humanitarian Alternatives by Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief Humanitarian Alternatives – Since you started out in photography almost twenty years ago, you have focused on social...
“Providing proof and showing things through pictures”
During his career as a television and radio reporter, Philippe Rochot has covered major events in our modern history: the Middle-East conflict, the Iranian revolution, the war in Afghanistan, upheavals...
Interview with Reza: An eye on the world
“War and peace correspondent”. This phrase, for which Reza has a particular fondness, perfectly encapsulates his view of the world, a view full of optimism in an ocean of suffering,...
Humanitarians in the age of counter terrorism: rejected by rebels, co-opted by States
Because rhetoric – and practice – of the fight against terrorism drives rebel movements to the edges of International Humanitarian Law, NGOs would be more and more under the influence...