Véronique de Geoffroy is Groupe Urgence Réhabilitation Développement Association (URD´s) Director. She has worked in the humanitarian sector for more than 25 years, having worked in the field in the 1990s, in Colombia, the Balkans and the Great Lakes region.
Léa Gillabert
Analysis
In one year, according to the National Observatory of the Social and Solidarity Economy, the French civil society sector lost a total of 12,305 jobs. In the face of the global authoritarian shift towards restricting the activities of civil society organisations, there is a need for a collective response to restore solidarity as a foundational political principle. You may find the translated version of the article written by Lucas Faure, Véronique de Geoffroy, Michaël Neuman et Raphaëlle Parizet published the 24 April 2026 here.