How to take care of humankind at +2°C?
On 15 and 16 April 2019, on the 100th anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the French Red Cross held a conference entitled “Health and...
Médecins Sans Frontières-France: tensions arising from the “Migration” projects
Can Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) be first responder, advisor and activist, all at the same time? While the organisation has never seemed to be on the front line with regards...
Interview with Pierre-Alain Gourion: U-Man, a new humanitarian radio programme.
Pierre-Alain Gourion is the founder of Bubble Art, a Lyon-based multi-cultural association that has launched “U-Man” a radio and video programme on humanitarian action that intends to become a sounding board....
HIV/AIDS: may our struggle not become undetectable
Despite scientific research, nearly 800,000 people still die from HIV and 1.7 million others are newly infected each year across the world. Allocating financial resources to this struggle is therefore...
Reunited
Lâm Duc Hiên is a child of the Mekong. Born in Laos in 1966, he had to flee the country in 1975. He then spent two years in refugee camps...
Ethics and research in humanitarian settings
Looking back on the seventh Scientific Day organised by Doctors of the World – France, the two authors discuss the ethical issues involved in research carried out in humanitarian contexts....
Internal borders
It is a parallel space and time, a countercurrent running against the flow of passers-by strolling along the sunny Parisian canals that directors Hind Meddeb and Thim Naccache set out...
Neither safe nor sound: unaccompanied children in the North of France
In the European refugee and migrant’s crisis, one in three people seeking for refuge is a child. Among these children, there are unaccompanied children[1]“Unaccompanied minors are children aged of less...
Why risk publishing a new international humanitarian review?
At the beginning of the 1970’s, the creation of Médecins sans Frontières wrote the first pages of a history in which numerous initiatives sharing a renewed conception of humanitarian action...
Humanitarian action beyond the French doctors
To inaugurate this section “Perspectives” Eleanor Davey invites us to reread the history of the “French doctors” while going beyond the foundational “moment” of Biafra. This look offered by an...
“Providing proof and showing things through pictures” – A report by Philippe Rochot
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...
The “hybridisation of humanitarianism”: ordinary citizens in French migrant camps
In 1968, French doctors decided to travel to Biafra to help the Igbo people. Later, they supported migrants in the South China Sea and elsewhere. Now, working alongside NGOs, ordinary...