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Armes  interdites Ron Haviv Op-ed

Libye, des lendemains qui déchantent ?

02/21/2012 Jean-Hervé Bradol

L'intervention de l'OTAN en Libye a relancé le débat au sujet des guerres qui se veulent justes et des interventions militaires internationales dites humanitaires. Deux arguments paraissent particulièrement solides pour refuser d'endosser les tentatives de messianisme politique conduites les armes à la main.

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Distribution of NFI in remote areas Giuseppe La Rosa/MSF Interview

Natural Disasters: “Do Something!”

02/17/2012 Rony Brauman Claudine Vidal

In this interview conducted by Claudine Vidal in 2012 and published in the book Agir à Tout Prix (Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: the MSF experience), Rony Brauman speaks about emergency humanitarian aid set up following natural disasters. Time constraints, access to victims, cooperation with local institutions, misleading representations of the disasters' effects, controversial assessments of the number of casualties; various topics related to these interventions are discussed and illustrated with specific examples.

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Des Rwandais déplacés, près de la frontière avec la RDC (Zaire), décembre 1994 Klaas Fopma Op-ed

Rwanda: les idiots utiles de Kagame

01/28/2012 Rony Brauman Jean-Hervé Bradol Claudine Vidal

Cette tribune a été publiée dans le journal Marianne, le 28 janvier 2012. Les découvertes du juge Trevisic ont relancé la polémique sur le Rwanda, une partie de la presse exonérant Kagame de ses responsabilités passées et présentes. Rony Brauman, Jean-Hervé Bradol et Claudine Vidal tentent de mettre en lumière les véritables enjeux du génocide rwandais.

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Rues dévastées à Martissant en Haiti Aurelie Baumel Opinion

The origin of cholera in Haiti: the culprit has been found!

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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Sorrow, suffering and mutilation are evident features of the ongoing civil war in Northern Uganda Harald Henden Opinion

Wartime rapes: men, too

12/05/2011 Marc Le Pape

Since the beginning of the 2000s, a number of English-language researchers have regularly asked the following question: why do international aid organisations pay so little attention to rapes of men and boys committed during armed conflicts?

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