This article was initially published the 29th of April 2026, in the book « Gaza, un génocide colonial », by the author Colette Braeckman. Rony Brauman develops a critical reflection on the war crimes committed in Palestine, on the limits of humanitarian law as well as the complicity of Europe in the methodical erasure of Palestinians. 

This article by Rony Brauman was originally published in French on October 2, 2025, in the thematic dossier "Deux ans après : penser depyuis le 7 octobre" (“Two Years Later: Reflecting on October 7”), by the Palestine Media Agency (Agence Média Palestine). The author reflects on the events of October 7, 2023, as well as on the disproportionate violence of Israeli reprisals response.

Since 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières has been recording events affecting the physical security of its staff deployed in the field in an online database called SINDY. Over the past two years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of severe security incidents recorded by MSF. Whereas in 2021, only 5 severe events were recorded, and one death reported, 37 severe events were recorded in 2024, resulting in the death of 10 people. How can this trend be explained?

This reading list gathers articles and videos published between February and June 2024.

Cet article de Michaël Neuman a été initialement publié dans le numéro 489 du 1 Hebdo "Que peut faire l'humanitaire ?" paru en mars 2024. L'auteur y décrit les stratégies de coopération utilisées par les ONG et particulièrement MSF pour intervenir dans des zones de conflits.

Nous proposons ici la lecture d’articles publiés dans les médias entre le 14 octobre 2023 et le 10 janvier 2024 au sujet de la guerre Israël / Palestine par des intellectuels, des chercheurs et des journalistes, ainsi que deux témoignages d’écrivains palestiniens. Ces analyses permettent, nous semble-t-il, de mieux comprendre la situation tragique qui a cours en l’inscrivant dans une pluralité de dimensions : historique, démographique, politique et géopolitique.

This article was published in the London Review of books website on September 8, 2023. The former evokes the dire conditions in which roughly 1 000 000 Rohingyas live in Cox’s Bazar, the largest refugee camp in the world. In this coastal district in south-east Bangladesh, the humanitarian deployment is impressive, but commitment by donors is waning. Between March and June, monthly food allocations fell from $12 to $8 per person. The difficulties of accessing care, the social control to which they are subjected and the lack of prospects are many reasons explaining the perils faced by the Rohingya population.

Michaël Neuman describes his visit to Goma’s IDP camps, where he spent two weeks. He shares his dismay at the low level of assistance provided by the aid sector, especially when we recall that the Sphere standards, born precisely out of the failure of the humanitarian response in this same region of Goma in the mid-1990s, were conceived and championed by all of us.

Based on a reflection regarding how patient rights have changed, in France in particular, Fabrice Weissman discusses humanitarian medicine’s shortcomings in that regard and proposes several avenues for improvement at MSF.  This text was originally posted on MSF’s associative website, The Souk.

This article was published on December 26th, 2022 on the Souk, the MSF associative website.
Accusing the mothers of malnourished children of being lawless fraudsters is a well-worn trope in malnutrition treatment programmes worldwide – and one that has resurfaced recently in Nigeria, stirred up by health workers and the media. These types of accusations obscure a series of tricky truths on the control of resources, the quality of malnutrition treatment programmes, and on the extreme precariousness in which many families live. We see all of this in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, where we are currently conducting the largest malnutrition programme in the history of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Dans ce blog, Marc Le Pape s'intéresse au vocabulaire couramment utilisé à MSF-OCP pour exprimer des points de vue ou des critiques, et aux connotations attachées à celui-ci. Il dresse ainsi une liste de termes positifs, péjoratifs et interprétatifs dont il analyse et illustre les usages.

In a country with a solid medical infrastructure and faced with a large-scale international mobilisation, what is the place of MSF in Ukraine and beyond? "We are not currently in the front line of emergency care provision," write Thierry Allafort Duverger and Michael Neuman, who see our work in limited areas, particularly with those "left behind," and in the longer term.