In April 2017, Dr. Fabienne Brugère was invited by the Foundation to discuss her latest book, The end of hospitality, Lampedusa, Lesbos, Calais… Where does it end?, and the way Europeans deal with the current migrant crisis, a pure geopolitical, or even political, issue… or a question of morals and ethics?
On April 12th, 2016 Handicap International Foundation invited Prof. Antonio Donini, a humanitarian issues and UN reform specialist, to try to put the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) into perspective. Is it truly, as many present it, a one of a kind international forum ? Or can it be seen as a further stage in […]
On February 16th, 2016 Handicap International Foundation received Prof. Jean-Pierre Filiu, a recognized expert in contemporary Middle East, to shed light on a crisis, which has caused the death of at least 250,000 people as well as the exodus of million others.
Just a few days after the end of the 2015 COP21, Bruno Rebelle, a former Programme Director at Greenpeace International and expert in sustainable development, lead one of the Foundation’s Talks and Debates.
Invoked to justify the intervention in Libya, the use of the responsibility to protect was vetoed by the Security Council in the case of Syria. Dr. Sandra Szurek, Prof. Emeritus of the University Paris Ouest Nanterre, told us why during one of the Foundation’s Talks and Debates.
Handicap International is perceived by its peers, and rightfully perceived, as an organization that strives for and encourages principled humanitarian action. But what principles are we talking about exactly? And what does it entails ? Maureen Magee, Interim Director of NRC in Geneva, discussed these issues, and much more, during one of the Foundation’s Talks […]
For the very first edition of the Foundation’s Talks and Debates, Jean-François Mattei, former French Minister of Health, Family and Disability and President of the French Red Cross from 2004 to 2013, presented his take on humanitarian action when it is put to the test by ethics.