Essays & analysis

Introducing 'for profit' initiatives and actors in humanitarian response

Preliminary analysis of facts, trends & concerns

February 2018

The private sector is increasingly involved in multiple aspects of humanitarian action, and not only as financial contributor. This research maps practices, identifies likely future scenarios regarding the privatisation of the response in emergency contexts and flags concerns regarding practices and trends.

 

Essays & analysis
Aid environment

The moral relativism of subordinating civilians to terrorists

MSF reflections after a tragic year of hospital bombings

June 2017

Comparative analysis of three tragic hospital bombings (in Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria) that looks beyond their specificities and points to a global climate in which the fight against terrorism has resulted in the subordination of the protection of civilians.

Essays & analysis
Attacks against medical mission