Published on 10 April 2025 Stability in the Balance Geneva, French-speaking Switzerland’s largest city, is celebrated as the birthplace of Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red...
Leonard Rubenstein’s extremely well-informed and well-argued article is an uncompromising discussion of some of the most serious breaches of and threats to international humanitarian law in these two conflicts. If...
In 2010, just a few months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti and claimed so many victims, the country was hit by a cholera outbreak. It took the United Nations...
United Against Inhumanity (UAI) is an NGO that focuses on the inhumanity of war and the erosion of asylum: www.against-inhumanity.org. Afghanistan is one of the areas of focus for UAI. In...
Provocative as it is, the author’s question is all the more relevant at a time when the war in Ukraine has once again raised the spectre of the use of...
Together with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and specialised United Nations (UN) entities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from international civil society are the third-largest family of international actors....
What is happening in Switzerland, the birthplace of the International Committee of the Red Cross and a stronghold of international organisations and non-governmental organisations alike? The author calls our attention...
& 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...
Joint editor with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief, of this issue under a partnership between Humanitarian Alternatives and the International Humanitarian Studies Association We have not seen the end of the Covid-19 pandemic....
In November 1947 the Partition Plan for Palestine was adopted, which would open the chapter of the Arab-Israeli wars. Seventy years later, the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory...
Whilst there is indeed a trend towards the strengthening of State sovereignty, this concept is more multifaceted and ambivalent than it might appear. The author invites us to take stock...
In October 2018, the workshop “Humanitarian Photojournalism: A History of the Present” was organised at Princeton University. The main goal of this event was to think about “the connections between the...
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