Robin Utrecht
Opinion
07/29/2009
Jean-Hervé Jézéquel
In 2008, Southern Ethiopia was the epicentre of a vast nutritional intervention: more than 100,000 malnourished children received assistance from a mix of actors including both international actors and local health facilities.
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Sebastian Bolesch
Opinion
06/22/2009
Rony Brauman
According to Wikipedia, "a humanitarian crisis is an event or series of events which carry with them a critical threat to the health, safety or wellbeing of a collectivity, usually over a wide area.
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Anthony Jacopucci
Opinion
06/15/2009
Jean-Hervé Bradol
Influenza A H1N1 is turning into a pandemic. What will the number of cases be, what groups will be the most affected, how virulent will the virus be, and how long will it last?
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Olivier Asselin
Opinion
05/25/2009
Jean-Hervé Jézéquel
Analyzing the same event from different perspectives is a favourite trick of historians to spice up their narratives. It also works pretty well to describe humanitarian interventions.
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Lynsey Addario
Opinion
03/01/2009
Rony Brauman
Humanitarian law was designed as a normative framework, not as an indictment. With this in mind, Rony Brauman tries to define what constitutes a human shield.
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Juan Carlos Tomasi
Opinion
03/01/2008
Xavier Crombé
Though independence and innovation are both highly valued concepts, Xavier Crombé questions in this article - thanks to MSF's experiences in Niger in 2005 - the possible interactions between them.
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Xavier Lassalle
Opinion
10/01/2004
Rony Brauman
Rony Brauman decribes how the qualification of the conflict in Darfur as genocide leads only to a dead end and warns against the abuse of this concept.
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Xavier Lassalle
Opinion
09/01/2004
Rony Brauman
Rony Brauman analyses the de-politicization and criminalisation process of the conflict in Darfur, resulting from an exclusively ethnic reading of this crisis and by the inappropriate use of the concept of "genocide".
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Keith Bernstein
Opinion
08/16/2004
Fabrice Weissman
Fabrice Weissman reminds us that while the clarity of the humanitarian emblem is no guarantee of absolute safety, it is nevertheless an essential prerequisite to it.
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Mehdi Mekroud
Opinion
09/01/2003
Xavier Crombé
Denis Lemasson
This article questions the independence of humanitarian action in Afghanistan, at a time when aid initiatives from military forces blurs differences, and when NGOs financed mostly by institutional funding risk becoming mere "implementing partners" of an aid policy driven by a political agenda.
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Wendy Marijnissen
Opinion
05/01/2003
Rony Brauman
Rony Brauman questions the link between public health decisions and the right to health care.
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Amador Gullar
Opinion
01/01/2003
Fiona Terry
The international aid regime tends to exaggerate changes over the last decade in the nature of so-called humanitarian crises. Neither violence perpetrated against civilian populations nor the dilemmas posed to aid organisations attempting to assist them have worsened since the end of the Cold War.
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