Ethical considerations around the use of humanitarian imagery
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....
The cause of migrants at threat from the rise of nationalisms: what path for international solidarity organisations?
Co-editor of this issue’s Focus with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief
“The portrayal of humanitarianism has, to say the least, dramatically changed in 50 years”
Entretien avec Pierre Micheletti et Bruno-Georges David From pictures of famished children in Biafra to those of victims of the Sulawesi tsunami, have portrayals of humanitarianism changed very much? Above...
Humanitarian drones: useful tool, toxic image
Undoubtedly it is technological tools that crystallize fantasies of efficiency and the greatest ambiguities the most. Drones induce multiple confusions – between civil and military use, interests of populations, NGOs and...