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...
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...
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...
The Covid-19 pandemic: a double burden in humanitarian crises
From refugee camps in Kenya or Jordan to countries in conflict such as Yemen or Syria, the expertise of humanitarian actors is key to limiting the spread of the pandemic...
Interview with Bruno Cabanes : “Humanitarian Photography”: an historian’s point of view
Bruno Cabanes is an historian, specialised in contemporary history. He is the Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Military History at Ohio State University in the United States....
Cameroon: reception areas for displaced people, between socio-demographic reconfiguration and managing Persons with Specific Needs
This article builds on the results of two studies: one carried out in the Far North region on the demographics of the people displaced by the Boko Haram crisis, and...
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.
Health multilateralism in the Biden era: it is a change for the better, but is it a change for good?
About six months have passed since the Biden Administration took the reins of government in the United States on 20 January 2021. It seems like a good time to take...
The resilient child: an alternative approach to suffering child icons
Sophie Nakueira • Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany) Can the image of the resilient child permanently counterbalance that of the suffering child? This...
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...
Internal borders
It is a parallel space and time, a countercurrent running against the flow of passers-by strolling along the sunny Parisian canals that directors Hind Meddeb and Thim Naccache set out...