On April 7th, 2016, honoured guests are kindly invited by Handicap International Foundation to spend the evening in the newly inaugurated Opéra des Nations, place des Nations, in Geneva. Why? To present the Foundation, its mandate, activities and aspirations, but also to reflect on the action of humanitarian actors, from an ethical point of view. […]
Handicap International and other leading aid agencies working in Syria have expressed concerns about the situation in Madaya, and other besieged areas. Read the joint declaration below:
When explosive weapons are used in populated areas, the level of civilian harm is usually very high. But what exactly constitutes explosive weapons ? Are they regulated by International Humanitarian Law like anti-personnel mines or cluster munitions? And what is Handicap International’s position regarding their use in populated areas ?
Depuis juillet 2015 la Fondation Handicap International, en collaboration avec le Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) travaille à l’élaboration d’une étude portant sur la mise en place opérationnelle des principes humanitaires. Axelle Velten, chargée d’étude à la Fondation, nous en dit plus.
Since July 2015, Handicap International Foundation has been working in collaboration with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to produce an operational study on principled humanitarian action.
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 […]