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International aid under threat: What consequences? What responses? What reconfigurations?

Everyone now recognises that Donald Trump’s second presidential term marks a radical transformation of the global arena. His controversial decisions and dramatic announcements are reshaping the balance of geopolitics and impacting, above all, international solidarity and, more specifically,...

François Audet - Jean-François Corty - Stéphanie Tchiombiano

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How to avoid the wrong enemy: progressive and reactionary critiques of humanitarian action

Joël Glasman

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Attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights: a challenge to international solidarity

Marie Lussier - Roxane Grisard

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Rethinking the foundations of a global humanitarian order in jeopardy

Caroline Brandao

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“Villagisation” as a resilience strategy for Central African Republic refugees in southern Chad in response to the international aid crisis

Julien Ramadji Begoto

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Can pooled funds transform humanitarian governance?

Maryam Z. Deloffre

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Aid in danger

Building tomorrow’s INGOs – towards a more collaborative sector

Published on 27 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: After the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November 2025. According to the author, as bilateral donors slash budgets and autocrats weaponise localisation, INGOs face an existential moment. Collaboration, not competition, offers the only […]

Aid in danger

Aid interrupted: what Myanmar’s crisis reveals about humanitarian system’s fragility

Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November 2025. According to the author, forty years after their creation, refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border reveal their Achilles heel: a deadly dependence on external […]

Aid in danger

After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire

Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November 2025. According to the two authors, Côte d’Ivoire’s HIV success story masks a dangerous vulnerability. When PEPFAR funding vanished, community workers kept showing up unpaid […]

Aid in danger

A new era for aid: prioritising people and protecting progress

Published on 4 November 2025 As donor budgets shrink and crisis-hit populations face abandonment, IRC charts a data-driven path forward. Through evidence-based targeting, proven innovations, and local partnerships, the organisation demonstrates how strategic action can maximise impact even amid unprecedented cuts. Humanitarian aid is facing a make-or-break moment. While global needs and extreme poverty are […]

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Ukraine-Gaza: why is the zone of legitimate humanitarian applicability shrinking so fast?

Increasing numbers of territories around the world are falling outside the monopoly of the legitimate State. And the “zone of legitimate humanitarian applicability” is shrinking accordingly. The two authors build their article around this notion, and explain how, in the case of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, this growing reality is dangerously paralysing the […]

Olivier Routeau - Amal Abou El Ghayt-Huart

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The mental health of humanitarian aid workers and gender dynamics: between “the risks of the job”, toxic masculinity and the burden of care

How does gendered socialisation affect women more than men in the humanitarian sector? This is the question that the three authors attempt to answer here. The past few years have seen a proliferation of studies on the importance of mental health among humanitarian field workers and on the practices that help reduce the psychological effects […]

Janyck Beaulieu - Laurie Druelle - Rosalie Laganière-Bolduc

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Urban warfare: a challenge for humanitarian law and action

Increasingly, war is being fought in urban areas. Because it is where the centres of power are based, where resources are concentrated and where the civilian population can be held hostage. A situation that questions the law of war and the intervention strategies adopted by humanitarian organisations.

Julien Antouly

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The “hybridisation of humanitarianism”: ordinary citizens in French migrant camps

In 1968, French doctors decided to travel to Biafra to help the Igbo people. Later, they supported migrants in the South China Sea and elsewhere. Now, working alongside NGOs, ordinary citizens scandalised by the treatment of migrants are mobilising here in France in response to this crisis. In doing so, they are inventing a new […]

Marjorie Gerbier-Aublanc

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Ukraine-Gaza: Exchange of views

Published on 29 April 2024. The discussion took place on 4 April 2024, as an introduction to the Alternatives Humanitaires General Assembly. The reason why these two conflicts are attracting so much international attention is because they undeniably mark a turning point that Humanitarian Alternatives felt duty-bound to analyse. A complex and ambitious issue of […]

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The Ukraine war as seen by press cartoonists

On the publication of Fichez-nous la paix ! (Leave us in peace!) in the Cartooning for Peace collection, published by Gallimard and in partnership with Amnesty International, Kak and Vladimir Kazanevsky explain the importance of their profession: press cartoonists. Joint interview by Nicolas Foucher of Amnesty International. The president of Cartooning for Peace, Kak is […]

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Interview with Plantu and Reza: “Infuriating doves of peace”

The renowned photographer Reza and Le Monde’s iconic cartoonist Plantu have just published a book in which they revisit eighty or so of their respective photos and cartoons. The publication, which covers a vast range of historical events and global issues – from the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 to the genocide of the Tutsis […]

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Interview with Bruno Cabanes : “Humanitarian Photography”: an historian’s point of view

Bruno Cabanes is an historian, specialised in contemporary history. He is the Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Military History at Ohio State University in the United States. He has written several books on the First World War and the post-war era, including The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 (Cambridge […]

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International aid under threat: What consequences? What responses? What reconfigurations?

How to avoid the wrong enemy: progressive and reactionary critiques of humanitarian action

Attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights: a challenge to international solidarity

Rethinking the foundations of a global humanitarian order in jeopardy

“Villagisation” as a resilience strategy for Central African Republic refugees in southern Chad in response to the international aid crisis

Can pooled funds transform humanitarian governance?

Our publications

Aid in danger

Building tomorrow’s INGOs – towards a more collaborative sector

Aid interrupted: what Myanmar’s crisis reveals about humanitarian system’s fragility

After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire

A new era for aid: prioritising people and protecting progress

Our current selection

Ukraine-Gaza: why is the zone of legitimate humanitarian applicability shrinking so fast?

The mental health of humanitarian aid workers and gender dynamics: between “the risks of the job”, toxic masculinity and the burden of care

Urban warfare: a challenge for humanitarian law and action

The “hybridisation of humanitarianism”: ordinary citizens in French migrant camps

Interviews

Ukraine-Gaza: Exchange of views

The Ukraine war as seen by press cartoonists

Interview with Plantu and Reza: “Infuriating doves of peace”

Interview with Bruno Cabanes : “Humanitarian Photography”: an historian’s point of view

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