Aurelie Baumel
Opinion
01/25/2012
Claire Magone
Two scientific studies published last year confirmed the origin of the cholera epidemic that struck Haiti in October 2010. It was indeed caused by massive amounts of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae in the Artibonite river delta, originating from the sewage in the Minustah soldiers' camp.
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Xavier Lassalle
Opinion
09/28/2010
Jean-Hervé Bradol
The United Nations has again raised the question of the implication of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) - in power in Rwanda since July 1994 - in crimes committed between 1993 and 2003 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Jean-Christophe Nougaret
Opinion
09/23/2010
Rony Brauman
The main objective of the United Nations Development Millennium Goals - a consensus if ever there was one - is to end poverty.
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Raghad El Souad
Opinion
09/13/2010
Claire Magone
UN Women was created in July 2010, after intense negotiations between United Nations member states and women's rights organizations. This new structure will take over the mandates of the four UN organizations heretofore devoted to gender issues.
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Karine Klein
Analysis
07/23/2010
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Using Niger as an example, this text seeks to explore the dilemmas involved in medical responses to child malnutrition when such malnutrition is endemic (strong, permanent presence) and gives rise to seasonal peaks (epidemics) each year.
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Andrew McConnell/Panos Pictures
Op-ed
01/20/2010
Rony Brauman
The earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and neighboring areas has led to a worldwide surge of solidarity which we must fully appreciate because no country could face such a disaster on this scale alone.
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Jacob Kuehn
Analysis
10/01/2009
Fabrice Weissman
This essay points out the fragility of the arguments most often used by humanitarian organizations to justify their support for an international criminal court. Questioning NGOs' infatuation with punitive justice, Fabrice Weissman argues that humanitarian organizations should advocate for politics of aid and mediation rather than for a global moral order based on judicial punishment and just war.
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Robin Utrecht
Opinion
07/29/2009
Jean-Hervé Jézéquel
In 2008, Southern Ethiopia was the epicentre of a vast nutritional intervention: more than 100,000 malnourished children received assistance from a mix of actors including both international actors and local health facilities.
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Marjolein Debruycker
Analysis
02/22/2007
Fabrice Weissman
Fabrice Weissman looks at the major stages of the Darfur conflict since 2003 from the perspective of a humanitarian medical organisation. He questions the predominant reading of this crisis, and cautions against the illusions of international armed intervention in the region.
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MSF-Crash
Book
11/01/1995
François Jean
« Never again »: in the wake of the second World War, the terror caused by the Holocaust led the community of states to condemn genocide as a crime and to create a new international organization, the United Nations. And yet, half a century later, the international community did nothing to prevent the first undeniable genocide since that of the Jews: it let the massacre of the Rwandan Tutsis and merely sent humanitarian aid, even though it was nearly over.
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Yann Libessart
Analysis
09/01/1993
Rony Brauman
In 1993, Médecins Sans Frontières left Somalia and denounced the methods of UN troops who were violating the very humanitarian principles in whose name they intervened.
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Jacob Zocherman
Conference
04/08/2009 - 06:30 PM 08:30 PM
Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier
In 1998 MSF decided to support the creation of the International Criminal Court. 10 years later MSF stated that it ‘would not cooperate and would not transmit any information to the ICC'. How can we explain this change of position?
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