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Extreme violence. Investigating, Saving, Judging Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Syria
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Marc Le Pape
Claudine Vidal

Over the last few years, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Syria have been places where situations of extreme violence took place. As witnesses and investigators of such, the authors of this book shed light on three key-moments that marked these tragic episodes:  the investigation, the intervention of emergency relief teams and the implementation of justice procedures leading to judgement.

Raqqa
Eddy Van Wessel
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Does international humanitarian law legitimise wars?

Rony Brauman

On March 8, 2020, the FIFDH Geneva organised a debate between Rony Brauman, Annyssa Bellal - Strategic Adviser on International Humanitarian Law - and Amani Ballour, a paediatrician who spent five years in an underground hospital in Syria and the protagonist of the film The Cave, to answer the question "Does international humanitarian law legitimise wars ?"

Idomeni after the closing of the border
Alex Yallop/MSF
Dossier

Migrants / refugees

With the cold war over, refugees have lost their status as an instrument of western soft power, whereas with the economic crisis and terrorism, hostility towards migrants is increasing. Prevailing representations of migration movements are convincing a growing proportion of the European population that migrants are a threat and refugees a burden. This file contains a collection of publications (articles, opinion columns, blog articles, press releases, CRASH papers) from 1990 to date, focusing on two themes : 1° the dichotomy between hospitality policy and migration policy, 2° camps approached from a number of different angles.  

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MSF à Serif Umra au Darfour
Marjolein Debruycker
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The International reaction to the Darfur Crisis: An Humanitarian Point of View
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.

Un enfant fait la queue pour avoir de l'eau
Ian Berry
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Terror and Impunity in Rwanda
Rony Brauman
Stephen Smith
Claudine Vidal

Not having seen the genocidal drift of Hutu Power in 1994 coming, the international community grants Paul Kagame's RPF the impunity of victims. Yet such power also lends itself to criminal acts. The authors express their indignance that NGOs and international organisations - invoking the duty of remembrance - join in the endless evocation of the past that masks the political phenomena at the root of the current violence.

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