Financially independent from the United States (US), Médecins Sans Frontières has abruptly discovered its autonomy is merely an illusion. Drastic cuts in US aid have revealed systemic interdependence, from vaccines...
For MSF, bearing witness is as much a part of its mission as providing treatment. Faced with accusations of bias and disinformation campaigns, the organisation is developing strategies to defend...
Humanitarian organisations are faced with a dilemma: they have to intensify their interventions to meet growing needs but have to drastically reduce their carbon footprint at the same time. This...
In 2010, just a few months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti and claimed so many victims, the country was hit by a cholera outbreak. It took the United Nations...
Migratory flows that exceed the numbers seen in the western Mediterranean, with more than eighty nationalities living side by side in the Central American corridor, mobile and local populations that...
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...
Leninakan, December 1989. It was a year after the earthquake that devastated Armenia that Médecins Sans Frontières launched its first “psy” mission. The author looks back at the reflections and hesitations...
The growth of social media has reduced the world to a “global village” in which images travel fast and far. When they feature vulnerable people, the impact can be disastrous....
In this paper, the two authors examine certain aspects of the French response to the epidemic in the light of the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in that field,...
Are non-governmental organisations also guilty of double standards? Reviewing humanitarian actors’ approaches to migration in Europe, the author analyses the demands, intentions and dilemmas that drive them.
Published on March 5, 2021 Ten years after the start of the war in Syria, 6.6 million people have been displaced by the fighting and violence tearing the country apart....
In short, this is where it all began: history and legend, ambiguities and dilemmas, principles and their limits. Drawing on her recent book on Biafra, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps looks back at...
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