A perilous journey across Central America
Full credit to our partner CartONG for drawing up a map of this “forgotten subcontinent” that presents the scale of the migrations that take place there. It also tells us...
Humanitarian aid and the challenge of gender-based and sexual violence
& Boris Martin • Editor-in-Chief In early 2018, several employees of a British non-governmental organisation (NGO) were accused of sexual abuse in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. What would become...
The continuum of violence in forced migration: acknowledging it and acting on it
On top of the difficulty or distress they experience when leaving, migrants endure all kinds of violence throughout their exile. For the authors, recognising the existence of this “continuum” of...
How to better understand the management of sexist and sexual violence committed by humanitarian aid workers
To introduce this Focus, its joint editor Jan Verlin presents a non-exhaustive review of the academic literature devoted to the theme of gender-based and sexual violence in humanitarian work. The...
Unsung heroes, Breaking the silence
Unsung Heroes is a joint endeavour undertaken by Denis Rouvre and Médecins du Monde. This photography project “arose from the desire shared with Médecins du Monde to bear witness to the violence...
Reflections on patriarchy and the fight against gender-based and sexual violence in the humanitarian sector
If the humanitarian sector is not immune to gender-based and sexual violence, it is because it is subject to patriarchal male-female dynamics, as are so many other sectors of society....
Confronting sexual violence in Quebec’s international cooperation organisations
How do Quebec’s international cooperation organisations (ICOs) deal with gender-based and sexual violence? Basing their reasoning on a survey carried out in 2018 among forty of these ICOs, the five...
Humanitarian Visa d’Or of the ICRC, 2011-2017: seven years of reflection
The regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in France created in 2011 the “Humanitarian Visa d’Or (Gold Visa)” in partnership with the prestigious International Festival of...