“An international status specific to humanitarian actors valid in all circumstances would be desirable and protective”

LThe published figures concerning attacks against humanitarian actors must alert us. Despite significant efforts by humanitarian organizations, the number of incidents that deliberately target their teams is not decreasing. The annual report on humanitarian security concludes that, for the year 2022, a total of 444 aid workers were affected in the line of duty, of…

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A “humanitarian disaster”: the City and the opposition are torn apart by the migrants installed in front of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris

Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Laura Laplaud / Photo credit: MUSTAFA YALCIN / ANADOLU AGENCY / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA AFP 07:06, August 22, 2023 About 150 migrants have settled since the beginning of August on the forecourt of the Town Hall in the capital, to claim housing. One year before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the…

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Damascus subjects the delivery of humanitarian aid to “unacceptable” conditions, denounces the UN

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid provided by the UN, at the Bab Al-Hawa border crossing, February 20, 2023. MAHMOUD HASSANO / REUTERS The UN is concerned about “unacceptable conditions” Damascus to use the Bab Al-Hawa border post to deliver vital humanitarian aid for millions of people in rebel areas of northwestern Syria, according to a document…

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