Starvation in Afghanistan: beyond the Taliban’s role
United Against Inhumanity (UAI) is an NGO that focuses on the inhumanity of war and the erosion of asylum: www.against-inhumanity.org. Afghanistan is one of the areas of focus for UAI. In...
India: countermodel, alternative or future partner?
Together with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and specialised United Nations (UN) entities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from international civil society are the third-largest family of international actors....
From overflowing farm gates to empty food plates: the unfinished food journey
How to explain the Indian paradox that sees the country with the highest cereal production in the world experiencing one of the highest rates of undernutrition? Ashwini Kakkar traces the...
Why India (perhaps) does not need humanitarian food aid
Following on from Ashwini Kakkar, Frédéric Landy takes a closer look at the Indian food paradox. He does so while reflecting on the Indian government’s hostility towards the intervention of...
Learning from Covid-19: the inextricable link between health and housing
If there is a health requirement as much as a cause of inequality that the pandemic has cruelly brought to light, it is that relating to housing. For the author,...
The “Officials of 40 Street” in N’Djamena: a phenomenon outside the humanitarian field
The capital of Chad is experiencing a phenomenon which is common to many other African cities. These young people who “come to the city”, being neither refugees nor displaced persons,...