Three years after it occurred, Haiti's cholera epidemic is still in the news.

Syria is certainly the most deadly conflict in the world today and the most underserved in terms of international humanitarian assistance. Exposed to violence and lack of essential services, millions of Syrians, living under the authority of opposition groups, have almost no access to international humanitarian relief. 

Mal nécessaire dès lors qu'elle vise à supprimer un mal plus grand, la guerre doit être un ultime recours lorsque tous les autres moyens de préserver la sécurité internationale ont été épuisés en vain.

How do Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) differ, and how are they alike?

The appointment of David Miliband as president and CEO by a major relief agency is another nail in the coffin to claims of humanitarian independence. 

What are your tangible suggestions for improving negotiations with Syrian government for cross border access, and why do you believe that greater pressure from OCHA and ICRC would yield results?­

What do the Syrian National Coalition, a foreign jihadi group, a Gulf State and the Iranian and American governments all have in common? 

Discussions on the merits of remote control management of humanitarian projects have been particularly intense over the last few years. We are pleased to share this contribution published in Humanitarian Exchange Magazine by Joe Belliveau, the operational manager for Somalia in the Dutch section of our organisation.

In June, MSF opened a hospital in the Idlib region in northern Syria, an area under rebel control. Located behind the front lines, the hospital has 15 beds and a staff of approximately 50, including 10 international MSF workers. 

Dans la lignée des questions soulevées par l'atelier "L'eau humanitaire est-elle potable ?", nous signalons la publication d'une enquête de MSF Belgique, confirmant l'importance de l'approvisionnement des familles en eau dans les programmes ambulatoires de lutte contre la malnutrition.

Last October, the Israeli Minister of Defence resolved under judicial order to declassify documents dating from January 2008. These archives contain the implementation details of the embargo imposed on Gaza in 2007.

John Pringle suggests that MSF, when tackling economy-generated environmental disasters, should not hesitate to question the ‘forces that deny our patients the societal determinants of health'.