International Cooperation

Perspectives

Changes in our environment and epidemics are linked to human activity

The global health crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic has confirmed that most modern epidemics are caused by cross-species virus transmission between wildlife and humans. According to Jean-François Mattei, since...

Jean-François Mattei

Transitions

Aid localisation: current state of the debate and potential impacts of the Covid-19 crisis

Could the debate about localising aid and actually putting it into practice undergo an unexpected resurgence due to the global health crisis? Either way, the Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity...

Jean-Martial Bonis-Charancle - Martin Vielajus

Forum

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

Focus

Confronting sexual violence in Quebec’s international cooperation organisations

How do Quebec’s international cooperation organisations (ICOs) deal with gender-based and sexual violence? Basing their reasoning on a survey carried out in 2018 among forty of these ICOs, the five...

Isabelle Auclair - Anne Delorme - Jade St-Georges - Sophie Brière - Stéphanie Maltais

Focus

“Do no harm”: the challenge of transactional sex in humanitarian operations

Based on testimonies gathered in different theatres of humanitarian operations, Jasmine-Kim Westendorf analyses the political, as well as the concrete, conditions that facilitate abuses. The author focuses on “transactional sex”,...

Jasmine-Kim Westendorf