Refugees

Responding to a non-traditional humanitarian crisis: the case of Northern Central America

The “Northern Triangle” of Central America might seem a good place to put the famous nexus into practice. However, the author feels that, for too long, the favour given to...

Julio E. Rank Wright

The invisible

Bertrand Gaudillère was a university student when he first grasped the power of documentary photography. During France’s university strikes in 1995, he helped set up a newspaper. He and a...

Bertrand Gaudillère

One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: humanitarian needs are as great as ever

Published on February 27, 2023 To quote this article: Sara Germain, Janyck Beaulieu, Stéphanie Maltais, and François Audet, “One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: humanitarian needs are as...

Sara Germain - François Audet - Janyck Beaulieu - Stéphanie Maltais

The reception system for asylum seekers: are civil society organisations still free to pursue their mission?

Published on August 16, 2022 The impact of a management approach in line with market logic is increasingly felt, including in migrant aid schemes. This is what Giorgia Trasciani explains...

Giorgia Trasciani

Russian civil society put to the test by the invasion of Ukraine

Does Russian civil society still exist since the invasion of Ukraine? After a look back at the conditions of its emergence in post-Soviet Russia, the authors go back over the...

Anne Le Huérou - Aude Merlin

Civil society under siege in Turkey: authoritarianism, polarisation and counterstrategies

Turkey is, like Russia, a striking illustration of the shrinking of civic space as a result of authoritarian policies. The author paints a picture of the trends and practices at...

Ülker Sözen

The cause of migrants at threat from the rise of nationalisms: what path for international solidarity organisations?

Co-editor of this issue’s Focus with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief

Clara Egger

The French Hautes-Alpes: community solidarity locks horns with a security ideology

In Vauban’s old fortress-building stomping ground, and more specifically at the frontier with Italy, the French State is striving to secure its borders. Volunteers respond by creating humanitarian corridors and...

Agnès Antoine - Ariane Junca - Guillaume Pégon - Luc Marchello - Philippe Hanus - Philippe Wyon

No Way Out, a multimedia documentary on the 10 years of war in Syria

Published on March 5, 2021 Ten years after the start of the war in Syria, 6.6 million people have been displaced by the fighting and violence tearing the country apart....

The impact of international proceedings for bypassing the State: the example of Madagascar

Madagascar was severely hit by a protracted political and diplomatic crisis triggered by the 2009 military coup. The transitional government, in power until 2014, was unable to prevent the State...

Christiane Rafidinarivo

Sovereignty as responsibility in East Asia’s response to crises

Though aspects of Oscar Gómez’s article resonate with Duncan Mclean’s opening article, one is not a reflection of the other. The former has the merit of shifting the gaze on...

Oscar A. Gómez

Regaining a sense of the humanitarian imperative

You have to wake people up; to revolutionize their way of identifying things. You’ve got to create images they won’t accept; oblige them to express their outrage; force them to...

Nathalie Herlemont-Zoritchak