We are pleased to invite you to a conference on Russia's new trajectories in Africa, on Thursday April 3, 2025 at 6:30pm, at MSF headquarters. Our guest will be Maxime Audinet, researcher at IRSEM. This meeting, prepared with Michaël Neuman (Crash), will be moderated by Guillaume Baret (Operations Department).
PodcastSince the return to power of the Taliban in August 2021, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has introduced a whole series of measures drastically limiting women's rights, their freedom of movement, their access to work and education as well as their participation in political life.
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Voitek AsztabskiSpeaking Out Case StudiesThe “MSF and Darfur 2003-2009” case study describes the constraints, questions and dilemmas faced by MSF with regards to speaking out about extreme violence, massive displacements and terrible survival conditions endured by the population in the Darfur region, Sudan, between 2003 and 2009.
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Nour AlsaqqaNews in brief
Nasir GhafoorAnalysisCet article de Nicolas Dodier s’appuie sur les premiers résultats d’une enquête, basée sur la consultation d’archives et la réalisation d’entretiens, relative à la mise en œuvre de programmes de chirurgie par l’organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
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Ben MilpasIn the mediaOn 11 June 2024, Rony Brauman was invited alongside with journalist Shirli Sitbon and nonresident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on France 24 English to talk about the situation in Gaza. During the interview, the former president of MSF evokes the ongoing starvation and the need for a ceasefire.
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ConferenceOn Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., the Crash team was pleased to welcome Julia Grignon, Jean-François Corty and Rony Brauman for a conference-debate to mark the publication of the latest issue of Alternatives Humanitaires magazine: “Ukraine-Gaza, cross-perspectives”, in which humanitarian practitioners and observers share their analyses.
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ConferenceOn Thursday 19 September 2024 at 6.30pm, the Crash team was delighted to welcome Priscille Sauvegrain for a conference on medical practices in maternal health in France and the role played by racial categories. The meeting was hosted by Judith Soussan.
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ConferenceOn 27 June 2024, the Crash team welcomed the journalist and essayist Adam Shatz for a lecture on Frantz Fanon.
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Isabel Corthier DossierThis Crash dossier gathers a selection of Crash publications published over the last twenty years: all of them, in different manners, tackle the themes of racism and humanitarian action. They also evoke the way discussions about racism have been addressed at Médecins sans Frontières.
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Alex Yallop/MSFDossierWith 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.
Brendan BannonDossierSeveral texts by members and associates of the CRASH published between 1994 and 2014 are united in this collection. In 2017, a book joins these publications: Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings: Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience (1982-1997)
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Djerabe NdegrgarOpinionThis 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).
Aurelie Baumel/MSFInterviewConfronted with a "totally unprecedented biological, social and political event", Jean-Hervé Bradol spoke with Mediapart about the difficulties of basing all prevention on behavioural measures: "It takes time for a society to fully acknowledge the existence of the event, which is unfolding as it tries to understand it.”
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Pierre-Yves BernardAnalysisUn récit de politique-fiction illustrant l'utilisation politique d'une action de secours.
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