Point de vue

The chances of a person to receive life-saving health care inside Syria today are defined by the side of the front-line in which they happen to be. It is the consequence of deliberate choices made by those who hold the guns, and also of the operational compromises accepted by aid agencies themselves.

Deployment of chemical weapons in Syria has proven to be such a horrific event, it has mobilized the muscle and diplomacy of the most powerful international actors. What will it take to unleash this same determination to come to the aid of the youngest Syrians?

Trois ans après sa survenue, l'épidémie de choléra d'Haïti n'a pas fini de faire parler d'elle.

Syria is certainly the most deadly conflict in the world today and the most underserved in terms of international humanitarian assistance. Exposed to violence and lack of essential services, millions of Syrians, living under the authority of opposition groups, have almost no access to international humanitarian relief. 

Mal nécessaire dès lors qu'elle vise à supprimer un mal plus grand, la guerre doit être un ultime recours lorsque tous les autres moyens de préserver la sécurité internationale ont été épuisés en vain.

The appointment of David Miliband as president and CEO by a major relief agency is another nail in the coffin to claims of humanitarian independence. 

Depuis quelques semaines, de grandes organisations humanitaires, et notamment le CICR, sont critiquées parce qu'elles se refusent à acheminer de l'aide d'urgence en Syrie autrement que par et avec l'autorisation de Damas. Le directeur des opérations du CICR a justifié cette position dans une récente tribune.

What do the Syrian National Coalition, a foreign jihadi group, a Gulf State and the Iranian and American governments all have in common? 

Discussions on the merits of remote control management of humanitarian projects have been particularly intense over the last few years. We are pleased to share this contribution published in Humanitarian Exchange Magazine by Joe Belliveau, the operational manager for Somalia in the Dutch section of our organisation.

En octobre dernier, le ministre de la défense israélien s'est résolu à déclassifier sur injonction judiciaire des documents datant de janvier 2008. Ces archives concernent la mise en œuvre de l'embargo décidé contre Gaza en 2007.

John Pringle suggests that MSF, when tackling economy-generated environmental disasters, should not hesitate to question the ‘forces that deny our patients the societal determinants of health'.

On 19th of September, PHAP hosted a discussion on the compromises and negotiations the humanitarian aid community must contend with during crisis situations with Michael Neuman and Antonio Donini.