Urban warfare: a challenge for humanitarian law and action
Increasingly, war is being fought in urban areas. Because it is where the centres of power are based, where resources are concentrated and where the civilian population can be held...
Operational research and malnutrition: state of knowledge and food for thought
Many NGOs have already responded to the requirement of linking action and research. For instance, since 2016, Action Against Hunger has been holding a conference to take stock of these...
Humanitarian work is coming up against a barrier: how can analysis help devise corrective strategies?
Security incidents and the growing difficulties that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are facing to gain acceptance are problems that are both also rooted in the very structure of the international humanitarian...
The Summit of greater uncertainty
Fear and apprehension, just as the expectations that the World Humanitarian Summit inspires are not limited to the French speaking world, let’s say to these “French doctor” NGOs, with a...
Standards and finances: analysis of the report of Ban Ki-moon
The financing for implementing humanitarian action, and the regulatory standards that govern it, no doubt represent the two stumbling blocks on which the participants in the Istanbul Summit will focus...
Humanitarians in the age of counter terrorism: rejected by rebels, co-opted by States
Because rhetoric – and practice – of the fight against terrorism drives rebel movements to the edges of International Humanitarian Law, NGOs would be more and more under the influence...
Humanitarian Visa d’Or of the ICRC, 2011-2017: seven years of reflection
The regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in France created in 2011 the “Humanitarian Visa d’Or (Gold Visa)” in partnership with the prestigious International Festival of...