In his third essay, Contre-histoire de l’humanitaire, Bertrand Bréqueville continues the critical reflection begun in L’Humanitaire sous l’emprise du néolibéralisme (2021) and L’Humanitaire à l’épreuve de l’impérialisme (2024 [all published...
In the face of massive violations of International Humanitarian Law and the impunity that goes with them, all in a context of drastic aid cuts, Caroline Brandao analyses the root...
As privileged witnesses in the field, humanitarian NGOs are more than ever crucial sources of information in a world saturated with fake news. But between information inflation and political manipulation,...
Editor’s note Founded on the principles of solidarity, impartiality, independence and selflessness since the early 1970s and the creation of the “sans frontières” movement, humanitarian aid agencies have built up...
The emergence of modern humanitarian aid combines the spontaneous action that is driven by solidarity in times of conflicts and natural catastrophes with the establishment of new standards. These standards...
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, the MSF-Crash team welcomed Julia Grignon (Scientific director of the Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire – IRSEM), Jean-François Corty (President of Médecins du Monde) and Rony Brauman (Crash-MSF) for a conference-debate...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was violently reignited following the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023, has practically pushed the Russia-Ukraine war off the geopolitical map.[1]« L’Ukraine menacée...
Leonard Rubenstein’s extremely well-informed and well-argued article is an uncompromising discussion of some of the most serious breaches of and threats to international humanitarian law in these two conflicts. If...
If there is one common, though disturbing, fact about the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, it is the accusations and counteraccusations of genocide that go hand in hand with them. From...
Putting an ethical dilemma into a narrative and analysing it. This is the exercise that the author skilfully undertakes in this article, which uses a real-life situation to explain the...
At the end of the first World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016, diplomats and heads of state were agreed on the goal of “upholding the norms that safeguard...
This article examines the dilution of the legal framework on which humanitarian action has historically been based, primarily through the prism of international humanitarian law and related challenges posed to...
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