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A critique to political chauvinism and the naturalisation of racial privilege in Myanmar

Behind the political crisis and the fate of the Rohingyas, there are deeply entrenched ethnic markers and a well-established social hierarchy. The author examines these aspects at the crossroads of...

Eduardo S. Molano

An analysis of ethical dilemmas in medical internships in countries with limited resources

What are the cross-effects (advantages and disadvantages) of humanitarian missions in fragile contexts? New light is shone on this long-standing issue through the lens of medical internships in countries with...

Émilie Gélinas - Marc Imbeault - Oumar Mallé Samb

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...

Ron Waldman

Management of the suffering child: a medical and operational challenge

Elba Rahmouni and Olivier Guillard • Médecins Sans Frontières This article presents a troubling example of the effects of adultcentrism. While the treatment of pain in adults and children in...

Elba Rahmouni - Olivier Guillard

Sexual abuse perpetrated by humanitarian workers: from moral relativism to competitive victimhood

Drawing on the example of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Françoise Duroch and Emmanuel Noyer review the measures taken by the non-governmental organisation (NGO) to combat sexual violence. The authors show...

Emmanuel Noyer - Françoise Duroch

Corruption: a challenge that doesn’t escape the humanitarian sector

Corruption. A taboo word thought to be associated with public contracts, political dealings, unscrupulous businesses, and mafia clans. Yet humanitarian agencies often find themselves having to grapple with corruption in...

Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent

The new wretched of the Earth

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The socio-economic integration of refugees involves recognising know-how, qualifications and skills

Although higher education institutions have been called upon to recruit more students, refugees face multiple obstacles when it comes to accessing them. This is a clear sign that European countries,...

Alessia Lefébure

The arbitration required between possibilities of new technologies and usefulness for populations

The resurgence of new technological tools requires humanitarian actors to take stock of their possibilities, applicability and interest for populations.

Karine Le Roch   - Caroline Antoine - Jonathan Bureau - Melchior de Roquemaurel - Myriam Ait-Aissa - Nicolas Dennefeld

The United Against Inhumanity initiative

We are inaugurating a new “Tribune” section that will allow for the expression of various initiatives in the humanitarian sector, and original, iconoclastic and even polemical points of view. And it’s...

Khaled Mansour - Antonio Donini - Jean-Baptiste Richardier

At the era of “humanitarian digitisation”, lifting the veil of newness

Applications of digital information communication technologies (ICTs) are now commonplace across the disaster response cycle. But some gaps leave a critical and emerging set of risk factors largely unaddressed in...

Daniel Scarnecchia - Nathaniel Raymond

Humanitarian drones: useful tool, toxic image

Undoubtedly it is technological tools that crystallize fantasies of efficiency and the greatest ambiguities the most. Drones induce multiple confusions – between civil and military use, interests of populations, NGOs and...

Michiel Hofman