Pandemic Response

Tough choices: moral challenges experienced by aid workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

The truly unprecedented nature of the pandemic has mobilised and confused humanitarian NGOs and their staff as much. Forced inaction mixed with setting up programmes within a context of high...

Françoise Duroch - Miriam Kasztura

Responding to Covid-19 in conflicts: difficult but necessary

In this article, Michiel Hofman reflects on the difficulty of implementing a health response in war zones especially in a context where States are mistrusted, where non-state armed groups call...

Michiel Hofman

A test of dignity: an anthropological analysis of Covid-19 responses in West Africa

The three authors of this article conducted an anthropological analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen from and experienced in Africa, shedding valuable insight into how this pandemic has been...

Yannick Jaffré - Fatoumata Hane - Hélène Kane

Video – Interview with Khaled Mansour – Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative

<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> Published on May 11, 2020 COVID-19 Special // Khaled Mansour is a senior fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative....

Data collection: lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic in Rohingya refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Data collection is now an integral part of humanitarian action. And in this area of their work, as in the aid activities themselves, the emergence of the pandemic has forced...

Candice Holt - Federica Mastroianni - Lamiya Mahpara Ahmed - Xiomara Hurni-Cranston

Unwelcome in Brazil: the broken promise to Venezuelan refugees

Drawing on a survey, this article argues that despite Brazil’s promise to welcome Venezuelan asylum seekers as refugees, the country remains hostile to migrants, particularly those from the LGBTQI+ community.

Gerson Scheidweiler - Tyler Valiquette - Yvonne Su