Europe

Humanitarianism at the heart of tomorrow’s urban challenges

The urban clinical picture is disquieting, but not hopeless. Emmanuel Matteudi, in his analysis of the world’s urban explosion, appropriately reminds us that humanitarianism, lying at the heart of the...

Emmanuel Matteudi

Environmental health at Médecins du Monde: from the emergence to the structuring of a struggle

Linking environment and health is not obvious for many humanitarian NGOs. Médecins du Monde has managed to make this theme one of its priorities. A look at a fight that,...

Astrid Fossier-Heckmann - Hugo Tiffou

Health multilateralism in the Biden era: it is a change for the better, but is it a change for good?

About six months have passed since the Biden Administration took the reins of government in the United States on 20 January 2021. It seems like a good time to take...

Ron Waldman

War in Ukraine: Why Europe urgently needs to reform international aid funding

Published on March 27, 2022 This contribution is published jointly on the Alternatives économiques website and on the website of the review Humanitarian Alternatives The analyses and proposals contained in...

Pierre Micheletti - Bertrand Badie

Sexual abuse perpetrated by humanitarian workers: from moral relativism to competitive victimhood

Drawing on the example of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Françoise Duroch and Emmanuel Noyer review the measures taken by the non-governmental organisation (NGO) to combat sexual violence. The authors show...

Emmanuel Noyer - Françoise Duroch

Bye bye, Moria?

In September 2020, Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece, made a brief return to the forefront of the international stage when it was almost completely destroyed in...

ReFOCUS Media Labs

Corruption: a challenge that doesn’t escape the humanitarian sector

Corruption. A taboo word thought to be associated with public contracts, political dealings, unscrupulous businesses, and mafia clans. Yet humanitarian agencies often find themselves having to grapple with corruption in...

Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent

Greece is an example of solidarity for Europe!

  After 20 years of commitment for the defence of refugees the world over, the opera singer Barbara Hendricks was appointed Honorary Ambassador for life of the United Nations High...

Barbara Hendricks

The new wretched of the Earth

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The socio-economic integration of refugees involves recognising know-how, qualifications and skills

Although higher education institutions have been called upon to recruit more students, refugees face multiple obstacles when it comes to accessing them. This is a clear sign that European countries,...

Alessia Lefébure

The arbitration required between possibilities of new technologies and usefulness for populations

The resurgence of new technological tools requires humanitarian actors to take stock of their possibilities, applicability and interest for populations.

Karine Le Roch   - Caroline Antoine - Jonathan Bureau - Melchior de Roquemaurel - Myriam Ait-Aissa - Nicolas Dennefeld

The United Against Inhumanity initiative

We are inaugurating a new “Tribune” section that will allow for the expression of various initiatives in the humanitarian sector, and original, iconoclastic and even polemical points of view. And it’s...

Khaled Mansour - Antonio Donini - Jean-Baptiste Richardier