No woman’s land
In 2024, for 6 months, Kiana and Mélissa travelled to seven provinces in Afghanistan to investigate the conditions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban, which, according to Amnesty...
Reviewing the protection offered to schools under international humanitarian law
Just like health centres – and the professionals who work there and the patients they treat – schools and their teachers and pupils are not spared from conflict or acts of terrorism....
Those who live on the water
We were introduced to Didier Bizet and his work in 2022 through his report on the Order of Malta’s mobile medical unit in Lebanon.[1]Didier Bizet, “Lebanon: healthcare takes to the...
The impact of Covid-19 on African civil society organisations
Even though Africa has been relatively spared from the pandemic in terms of both infection and mortality rates, it is a different story for the continent’s organisations. The author draws...
The use of digital tools at large scale: lessons from a health programme in Burkina Faso
The first article of this Focus is feedback from a digital health project Terre des hommes has led for almost eight years. This timeframe makes it possible for the authors...
New models of working and partnership in development: the example of Friendship, a Bangladeshi organisation
Founded by Runa Khan, Friendship began its activities in 2002 with a floating-hospital to ensure access to health care for ultra-poor communities in Bangladesh. Since then, Friendship has extended its...
“The Kamaishi miracle”: lessons learned from the 2011 tsunami in Japan
The tsunami that hit the east coast of Honshu Island in Japan in 2011 not only made Fukushima a martyr city, a universal symbol of the current nuclear risk. It...