OUVRAGE : B. Conley, A. de Waal, C. Murdoch, W. Jordash QC (eds.), Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law

Bridget CONLEY, Alex de WAAL, Catriona MURDOCH, Wayne JORDASH QC

Famine is an age-old scourge that almost disappeared in our lifetime. Between 2000 and 2011 there were no famines and deaths in humanitarian emergencies were much reduced. The humanitarian agenda was ascendant. Then, in 2017, the United Nations identified four situations that threatened famine or breached that threshold in north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. Today, this list is longer. Each of these famines is the result of military actions and exclusionary, authoritarian politics conducted without regard to the wellbeing or even the survival of people.