Learning from Covid-19: the inextricable link between health and housing
If there is a health requirement as much as a cause of inequality that the pandemic has cruelly brought to light, it is that relating to housing. For the author,...
Population science working hand-in-hand with humanitarian workers?
Vincent Léger is co-pilot of this issue’s Focus.
Understanding the history, dynamics and workings of epidemics
Where do epidemics come from, how do they spread, and how do they behave? To answer these questions, and to introduce this issue’s theme, it was first deemed necessary to...
Cities: a new humanitarian field
From the plains of Solferino to the mountains of Afghanistan, by way of Ethiopian villages and the South American bush, humanitarian aid has mainly been forged at a distance from...
World demographic prospects: between certainties and uncertainties
To open this “Focus”, Gilles Pison offers us an overall vision based on past developments to help us to better understand those to come. While the world’s population should continue...
How to take care of humankind at +2°C?
On 15 and 16 April 2019, on the 100th anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the French Red Cross held a conference entitled “Health and...
Humanitarianism at the heart of tomorrow’s urban challenges
The urban clinical picture is disquieting, but not hopeless. Emmanuel Matteudi, in his analysis of the world’s urban explosion, appropriately reminds us that humanitarianism, lying at the heart of the...
A virtuous circle of collaboration for an efficient urban humanitarian response: Kampala
As the country in Africa that receives the greatest number of refugees, Uganda has an open and inclusive migratory policy. The authorities of the capital, Kampala, have put in place...
The “Officials of 40 Street” in N’Djamena: a phenomenon outside the humanitarian field
The capital of Chad is experiencing a phenomenon which is common to many other African cities. These young people who “come to the city”, being neither refugees nor displaced persons,...
Resilience as a protection strategy in informal settlements – A study in Altos de la Florida
The city as a refuge or as a prison. Pablo Cortés Ferrández carried out a study in Altos de la Florida, an informal settlement in the municipality of Soacha in...
Can gangs play a role in providing relief?
The thesis is daring, but in the extreme context of urbanisation and violence in Latin America, it deserves to be asked. In this article, indeed, the author analyses the extent...
Demographic transition in the Mediterranean: between rising risks and the necessary adaptations of humanitarian practices
The Mediterranean is at the centre of the humanitarian attention as a place of deadly migrations, practically a cemetery whose ignominy is constantly denounced by NGOs. But it is also...