Jan 6, 2012

For better-off families, the December/January Holiday Season is a period of traditional overeating, while the millions of people who suffer from chronic lack of food and the millions of children who die of malnutrition, worldwide, remain forgotten. Yet paradoxically, diseases once associated with opulent societies and wealthy people increasingly affect both rich...

Dec 24, 2010

For several years, the headlines of the media have been regularly focused on disasters in Haiti : cyclones in 2004 and 2006, earthquake in January 2010, followed by a pandemic of cholera. The human cost was heavy: about 250 000 deaths, hundreds of thousand wounded  and mutilated people, more than 1 300 000 homeless. As usual, the weakest and the poorest were...