Yemen: living with bombs and landmines
All credits and legends : © Agnès Varraine-Leca/MSF Four years of war, with more than 19,000 air strikes by the Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates-led coalition and conservative estimates suggest...
Médecins Sans Frontières-France: tensions arising from the “Migration” projects
Can Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) be first responder, advisor and activist, all at the same time? While the organisation has never seemed to be on the front line with regards...
A virtuous circle of collaboration for an efficient urban humanitarian response: Kampala
As the country in Africa that receives the greatest number of refugees, Uganda has an open and inclusive migratory policy. The authorities of the capital, Kampala, have put in place...
Médecins Sans Frontières in Borno State, Nigeria: a critical look at our operations
Published on December 15, 2019 In 2016, the Operations Department commissioned a critical review of the operations carried out between 2015 and 2016 in Borno State by Médecins Sans Frontières...
Aleppo, an insider’s view
Director’s note Waad al-Kateab was a young Syrian woman living in Aleppo when war broke out in 2011. During the bombings, everyday life goes on. Her film captures the daily...
Reunited
Lâm Duc Hiên is a child of the Mekong. Born in Laos in 1966, he had to flee the country in 1975. He then spent two years in refugee camps...
Towards a renewed humanitarian approach to peace negotiations
The involvement of humanitarians in political processes is a subject almost as old as the existence of non-governmental organisations itself. The author proposes to draw a renewed path, between ethics...
The state of affairs in Ukraine: flagrant violations of humanitarian principles
Published on March 17, 2022 Our partner, the Canadian Research Institute on Humanitarian Crises and Aid (Observatoire canadien sur les crises et l’action humanitaires – OCCAH in French), has been...
Bye bye, Moria?
In September 2020, Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece, made a brief return to the forefront of the international stage when it was almost completely destroyed in...
Greece is an example of solidarity for Europe!
After 20 years of commitment for the defence of refugees the world over, the opera singer Barbara Hendricks was appointed Honorary Ambassador for life of the United Nations High...
Neither safe nor sound: unaccompanied children in the North of France
In the European refugee and migrant’s crisis, one in three people seeking for refuge is a child. Among these children, there are unaccompanied children[1]“Unaccompanied minors are children aged of less...
Interview with Stephen O’Brien: “We need unconditional, unimpeded and sustained access to every single vulnerable person in Syria”
Interview What has been going on in Syria for the past six years is probably unprecedented since the Second World War. But this paroxystic conflict, which captures the attention of...