Two operational situations have recently caused Médecins Sans Frontières to confront the question of torture and the instrumentalisation of medicine by those who practise it.

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.

In "Wartime rapes: men, too", I discussed an article, "The rape of men", by Will Storr published in The Observer on 17 July 2011. 

In a report titled "A Dangerous Delay", Oxfam and Save the Children rebuke everyone - governments, humanitarian organisations, the United Nations - who participated in the humanitarian response to the food crisis that struck the Horn of Africa in recent months.

L'expertise balistique au sujet de l'attentat commis en 1994 contre l'avion qui ramenait à Kigali les présidents du Rwanda et du Burundi a provoqué de nombreux commentaires dans la presse, actant comme Le Monde d'une «vérité à la portée historique et diplomatique». 

Assurer une aide humanitaire aux victimes de conflits peut-il impliquer de faire appel à une intervention militaire ? Oui, selon certaines ONG. Non, affirme Médecins sans frontières, qui défend la démilitarisation des espaces de soin.

Rony Brauman discusses several aspects and issues related humanitarian action as well as the good reasons to wish Médecins sans frontières a happy 40th anniversary.

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?

Humanitarian assistance has become entangled with migration and security agendas. Indeed, most humanitarian assistance in Somalia and in refugee camps is subordinated and in support of these two agendas.

In the context of emergency appeals in the Horn of Africa, Rony Brauman recalls the contemporary definition of a famine. While recognising the progress made in major crisis response mechanisms, he questions the alarmist attitude of the UN.

For the past several months, news about food shortages and famines affecting large segments of the East African population have been fueling donation appeals from major public and private aid organizations.

Rony Brauman s'appuie sur certains mensonges et axes de communications qui ont été mis en avant ces dernières années pour justifier les interventions internationales, afin de nous mettre en garde contre les dangers de l'intervention militaire en Libye.