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• Category: Conferences & Publications
  • “Humanitarian Diplomacy and International Crisis Management”
  • “religions together for humanitarian action” : publications
  • Protecting the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean, a contribution to intercultural dialogue
  • “Protection and conservation of cultural heritage in the Mediterranean”
  • Conflicts Determinants and new patterns of prevention
  • Category: Conferences
    • Legal Approaches To Reducing The Demand Behind Human Trafficking
    • Humanitarian Diplomacy and International Crisis Management
    • Sovereign Order Of Malta organises “religions together for humanitarian action” Symposium in Geneva
    • Protecting the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean, a contribution to intercultural dialogue
    • Protection and conservation of cultural heritage in the mediterranean
    • What health policy for developing countries?
  • Category: Publications
• Category: Culture & Religion
  • Pope Francis receives the Grand Master of the Order of Malta: Particular focus was placed on the refugee crisis
  • World Youth Day: Grand Hospitaller Greets Pope Francis in Panama
  • Pope Francis’ address to Diplomatic Corps
  • Pope to Ambassadors: Proposing solutions in dialogue with Church
  • Pope Francis sends video message to forum on ‘modern-day slavery’
  • Address of pope Francis To the Diplomatic Corps
  • Pope: Protect Civilians During Conflicts
  • New Vatican emphasis on ‘20 action points’ for migrants, refugees
  • Secretary-General’s remarks on the Launch of the Fez Plan of Action
  • Faith central to hope and resilience, highlights UN chief, launching initiative to combat atrocities
  • “ICOMOS Guidance on Post Trauma Recovery and Reconstruction for World Heritage Cultural Properties”
  • AB Gallagher on Holy See’s action to protect Christians and other minorities
  • G7 culture ministers discuss threat of cultural trafficking
  • Pope Francis: New Year’s address to Diplomatic Corps
  • ‘Migrant crisis challenges Christian unity’, says bishop
  • Pope Francis Received the Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Audience
  • Diplomacy for solidarity
  • UNESCO chief sees threat from cultural destruction
  • Pope Francis received Charlemagne Prize
  • “No, Bashar Al Assad is not the shield of Eastern Christians”
  • “Migrants are to Francis that the Berlin Wall was for John Paul II”
  • Pope welcomes the initiative “humanitarian corridors for refugees”
  • Peace of God and Peace of Men
  • “A final solution is evolving to Eastern Christians”
  • The Orthodox Church: between political equation and council
  • Bishop Gallagher, Vatican diplomat facing a new world war
  • “Islamism is a danger, but the spiritual emptiness of the West is already a greater danger”
  • UNESCO’s concern for the heritage of Jerusalem
  • Pope Francis appreciate AED’s efforts to persecuted Christians
  • Global Mapping of religions
• Category: Diplomacy & Mediations
  • ICRC President: “The humanitarian carveouts have allowed people to benefit from life-saving assistance”
  • (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog) ‘Catching up with the curve’: the participation of women in disarmament diplomacy
  • Speech of the Grand Master Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Sovereign Order of Malta
  • Pope Francis’ Greeting Address to Members of the Diplomatic Corps
  • 2020 : Humanitarian diplomacy, a privileged tool for mediation, peace and reconstruction.
  • Statement by HE M. Yves Gazzo To The International Criminal Court
  • The End of the World As We Know It
  • Council of Despair? The Fragmentation of UN Diplomacy
  • Statement by Michel Veuthey | Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2019)
  • XXVII International Hospitallers Conference
  • The Global Risks Report 2019
  • Speech of the Grand Master to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Sovereign Order of Malta
  • The imperative of UN reform
  • Hope, industriousness, reconciliation: the keywords of the Order of Malta’s actions
  • The Coming Crime Wars
  • The truth is that Trump has a point about globalisation
  • Pope Francis receives the Grand Master in Audience: “Go ahead with courage, you express spirituality through your works”
  • Keynote Address of His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin “Co-operative Globalisation” Global Foundation “Rome Roundtable” Dinner
  • Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto elected 80th Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta
  • International humanitarian aid
  • Dialogue and confidence vital to prevent, resolve conflicts, says UN chief
  • Speech of the Lieutenant of the Grand Master to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Sovereign Order of Malta
  • Challenges & dilemmas in frontline negotiations: Interview with Claude Bruderlein
  • Dismantling the Foreign Service
  • Official Visit of the German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, for the opening of diplomatic relations between Germany and the Order of Malta
  • Surge in diplomacy, action in mediation
  • Not Without Dignity: Views of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon on Displacement, Conditions of Return, and Coexistence
  • To put a stop to the killing, these two men spend their entire day talking
  • The impact of (big) data on geopolitics, negotiations, and the diplomatic modus operandi
  • Libya’s warring sides reach diplomatic breakthrough in Rome
  • Diplomacy Then and Now: Prevention is Always Better Than Treatment
  • A Conversation With Nikki Haley
  • How China is preparing for cyberwar
  • In Hindsight: Can the Security Council Prevent Conflict?
  • Good Foreign Policy Is Invisible
  • Munich Conference on Security: Articles and Videos
  • At Munich Security Conference, UN chief Guterres highlights need for ‘a surge in diplomacy for peace’
  • Global Trends
  • Redesigning Humanitarian Action: Beyond the Crisis
  • Partnerships Pave the Way for our Collective Roadmap
  • Denmark will get world’s first tech ambassador
  • EU foreign policy should build on diplomacy, development and defence, say MEPs
  • Conference on Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage
  • New UN chief Guterres pledges to make 2017 ‘a year for peace’
  • The End of the Anglo-American Order
  • The crisis of multilateralism and the future of humanitarian action
  • An experienced practitioner addresses today’s unprecedented challenges
  • The Strategic Interests of the European Union
  • “Art of Peace: Secrets and Treasures of Diplomacy”
  • The Order of Malta takes part in the 71st United Nations General Assembly
  • A Working Group for Libya to Strengthen Laws and Respect for Human Rights
  • Resolution of Israel-Palestine conflict requires “leadership and vision”
  • Highlights of the Sovereign Order of Malta’s participation at the WHS
  • Moscow-Washington, Eurasian issues of the Syrian crisis
  • “International humanitarian law is disintegrating before our eyes”
  • Updated Commentaries bring fresh insights on continued relevance of Geneva Conventions
  • The final desperate plan
  • Rethinking diplomacy
  • Syria: Dispite of the agreement of “cessation of hostilities” the delivery of humanitarian aid is complex
  • The Grand Master at the Central American Integration System (SICA)
  • ICC’s first cultural destruction trial to open in The Hague
  • A certain vision of ​​the United Nations
  • Jean-Philippe Gaudin: “Forced migration has always been a weapon”
  • Refugee influx threatens fall of EU, warns Dutch PM
  • “Syria will inevitably erupt in both entities”
  • “World War piecewise” has already begun
  • H.E. Albrecht von Boeselager: The age of chivalry can show us how to help today’s refugees
  • Vatican diplomacy in connection with 180 countries
  • “The war in Syria? An incredible legal puzzle “
  • “The lack of global leadership makes very dangerous the situation”
  • The Sovereign Order of Malta Observer to the Central American Integration System (SICA)
  • Humanitarian Diplomacy: facing the challenges of the 21st Century
  • The Holy See essential state of world diplomacy?
  • Interview of the Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, HE Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager
  • Why is international humanitarian law (still) misapplied?
  • Preserving the integrity of humanitarian negotiations
  • Together to address the humanitarian challenges
  • Humanitarian Principles: 50 years after their adoption, myth or effectiveness?
  • Diplomatie humanitaire et action humanitaire
• Category: Focus On...
  • Order of Malta | Migrants and refugees | Meeting in Rome
  • Yves Gazzo : Some thoughts on migration
  • 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Towards a “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration”: For a permanent dialogue on migration
  • The long road to a Global Compact on Refugees
  • Migration, Refugees, Humanitarian and Peace
  • Genocide, the duty of memory to action
  • Child soldiers, actors and victims of armed conflict
  • Syria – a week of cessation of hostilities. The outlook for the envoy of Secretary-General of the United Nations, Staffan de Mistura.
  • World Humanitarian Summit – A new impetus to Istanbul and beyond
  • Michel Veuthey: “Migration: a challenge to our values, our communities, our civilization”
  • Xavier Guilhou: “Humanitarian diplomacy and management of major international crises: New challenges, new tasks”
• Category: Humanitarian Aid & International Solidarity
  • How philanthropy benefits the super-rich
  • What is the role of philanthropy in Covid times?
  • The Impact of COVID-19 on Humanitarian Crises
  • Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem intensifies antenatal checks with awareness campaigns in the region
  • Bushfires in Australia, the Hospitaller: “Order of Malta provides emergency relief”
  • Mandate for ICRC’s President extended for third term
  • Order of Malta’s Grand Master praises UNESCO’s commitment to progress and respect of human dignity
  • World hunger on the rise as 820m at risk, UN report finds
  • McKay Interview: Yves Daccord, Director-General ICRC
  • 7 ways business can be agents for peace
  • Rules in War – A Thing of the Past?
  • Tipping points 2019 | Lessons from fragility
  • Cyclone Idai: Malteser International sends team to Mozambique
  • Eight years of war in Syria: ‘The scale of human suffering cannot be expressed in numbers’
  • 8 things we must do to tackle humanitarian crises in 2019
  • Humanitarian action : as local as possible, as international as necessary
  • Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem: 4,700 babies born in 2018
  • Order of Malta in Hungary scaling up its assistance work to help Syrian population
  • Ten humanitarian crises and trends to watch in 2019
  • Partnering with the private sector to innovate humanitarian response
  • “Peace is all we need to return home”
  • How change happens in the humanitarian sector – CHS Alliance launches flagship report
  • Order of Malta and Red Cross united by a “red thread”: helping those who suffer
  • Indonesia earthquake and tsunami: Malteser International supports reconstruction of health facilities
  • Malteser International gains Special Consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
  • Peacekeepers Shouldn’t Always Be Peaceful
  • OCHA report : 2017 Humanitarian Response Plan End of Year Report (January – December 2017)
  • NGOs and the private sector : the state as an arbitrator ?
  • DR Congo: UN warns of spike in displacement amid funding shortfall
  • We CAN end hunger  but only if we end conflict
  • “We should be as ambitious in protection of civilians as we have become in assistance”
  • 2018 New Year message
  • ​Africa for pessimists: 2017 in review
  • Children bear ‘disproportionate lethal impact’ of Syrian war, warns study
  • Amid record needs, new UN relief chief promises reform
  • What Libya’s “slave auctions” tell us about the humanitarian system
  • UN relief wing appeals for record $22.5 billion in aid for 2018
  • The futur of aid : INGOs in 2030
  • Giving Away Billions as Fast as They Can
  • A framework to underpin action to prevent violence against women
  • David Horobin: “In today’s world a major crisis cannot be handled by one individual.”
  • ‘Change or die’: aid charities told to stop competing for funds or face extinction
  • Fighting violent extremism – humanitarians beware
  • The crisis of multilateralism and the future of humanitarian action
  • Presence and Proximity, To Stay and Deliver, Five years On
  • Regaining a sense of the humanitarian imperative
  • Where do we go from here? 1st Annual Grand Bargain Meeting
  • Malteser International | Syria’s War Children | No lost generation
  • Memo to Congress: Don’t Cut Foreign Aid
  • UNITAR and OHCHR Set the Stage for More Satellite to Protect Human Rights
  • Malteser International : Over five million people face starvation in South Sudan
  • The humanitarian system is not just broke, but broken: recommendations for future humanitarian action
  • Malteser International | Iraq: distribution of emergency kits for displaced people
  • ‘Enduring dilemmas’ of speaking out – Red Cross director
  • The “New Way of Working”: Bridging aid’s funding divide
  • Surveillance for good? Facebook tracks disaster victims
  • It’s not just NGOs tackling humanitarian crises. Banks have a role too
  • Princes and bankers and aid! Oh my!
  • One year after humanitarian summit, UN stresses reforms to put people ‘at heart’ of decision-making
  • Five key principles for US foreign assistance success
  • The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law
  • Doing good and doing well
  • UK technocrat appointed UN humanitarian chief – reports
  • IOM DG Swing’s Statement at the Syria Brussels Conference
  • IOM Learns of ‘Slave Market’ Conditions Endangering Migrants in North Africa
  • Ben Stiller and Social Media Stars Launch ‘Love Army’ to Aid in Somali Crisis
  • The digital transformation of the humanitarian sector
  • Humanitarian & Digital : The major turning point
  • Connectivity is a lifeline for refugees
  • A Study on the Roots of Restraint in War
  • Local aid agencies: still waiting for a bigger share of the funding cake
  • Someday Disposable Drones May Deliver A Payload, Then Vanish
  • Stop targeting humanitarian workers
  • Hitting rock bottom: Children’s suffering in Syria at its worst
  • Ethics and state funding: the quest for independent humanitarian action
  • Planning from the future : Is the Humanitarian System Fit for Purpose?
  • Generating respect for the law in all armed conflicts
  • How small business can play a big role in humanitarian crises
  • The biggest donors of 2016
  • If Trump’s America shrinks humanitarian support, will China fill the void?
  • Humanitarian Diplomacy, a Fig Leaf for Extrem Violence
  • The problem with aid convoys
  • Sweating the small stuff at the World Humanitarian Summit
  • The well-fed dead: Why aid is still missing the point
  • Fixing the world’s humanitarian crises
  • Neonatal Equipment inauguration in Sainte Fleur pavilion
  • A humanitarian’s guide to choosing the next UN chief
  • When Food Shortage Becomes Famine
  • MOAS and Order of Malta saving lives of migrants
  • EU-Turkey Agreement: the concern of the “Œuvre d’Orient”
  • Modify the humanitarian funding streams
  • World Humanitarian Summit : Five core responsibilities
  • The French National Humanitarian Conference
  • Countries in crisis: rethinking the role of development aid
  • Launch: European Medical Corps
  • Where to for protection in humanitarian action?
  • How to manage the migrant crisis
  • Humanitarian promises instead of political solution
  • Better serving people in need through cooperation with the World Economic Forum
  • Speech of H.M.E.H. the Prince and Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Sovereign Order of Malta
  • In Defense of Philanthrocapitalism
  • International humanitarian law: answers to your questions
  • “The generosity is huge but it has never been so insufficient”
  • Two years on from Typhoon Haiyan Malteser International helps more than 10,000 people to make a new beginning
  • The Order of Malta, at the forefront of humanitarian crises
  • 48 humanitarian NGOs adopt a joint statement
  • Eric Pourcel: “The legal principle of humanitarian intervention does not exist …”
  • Humanitarian Access in situations of armed conflict
  • “Together, emergency and development NGOs”
  • Safeguarding health: a global health and humanitarian priority
  • Sahel’s plight worsens amid fighting, says UN aid chief
• Category: LATEST NEWS
  • INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY – 18 December 2020
  • 2019 global natural disaster assessment report
  • Seven things you need to know about climate change and conflict
  • An Interview with Professor Michel Veuthey
  • How to better fight human trafficking: The Order of Malta organizes conference with international experts to forge new synergies
  • VOA Documentary: Displaced
  • Extreme weather hit 60 million people in 2018, no part of the world spared
  • Nigeria: Malteser International opens second centre providing relief to internally displaced persons
  • Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
  • New study reveals increasing threats of cumulative climate hazards around the world
  • How Europe Can Reform Its Migration Policy : The Importance of Being Sustainable
  • Human Rights Council – 39th Session : Statement by Professor Michel Veuthey Ambassador of the Order of Malta to monitor and combat human trafficking
  • UNHCR Desperate Journeys report provides snapshot of changing refugee movements to Europe
  • Order of Malta stands with Pope Francis in fight to end Human Trafficking
  • 5 natural disasters that beg for climate action
  • “Migrants and Refugees” conference in Rome, Pope Francis’ message and the Order of Malta’s action
  • Malteser International calls for more humanity ahead of World Refugee Day
  • Forced displacement at record 68.5 million
  • Slavery yesterday and today | Past reflections and future perspectives by Michel Veuthey
  • Nowhere to go
  • Climate change is the story you missed in 2017
  • Four Decades of Cross-Mediterranean Undocumented Migration to Europe: A Review of the Evidence
  • World Migration Report 2018
  • Participants at UN conference examine human mobility in an era of climate change
  • ‘Time to stamp out human trafficking,’ says Guterres; UN pledges action to eradicate ‘heinous crime’
  • How Environmental security and human rights are linked?
  • Modern slavery : myths & facts
  • UNHCR welcomes commitments made today at the Paris meeting on migration and asylum
  • Libya’s migration crisis is about more than just security
  • Global Views on Immigration and the Refugee Crisis
  • Why We Need a Global Business Council for Refugees
  • Are NGOs responsible for the migration crisis in the Mediterranean?
  • Efforts to Rescue Migrants Caused Deadly, Unexpected Consequences
  • Safe havens: why cities are crucial to the global refugee crisis
  • The Atlas of Environmental Migration
  • A climate in crisis
  • Vatican seminar on water pushes for better public policies
  • Food trade drains global water sources at ‘alarming’ rates
  • The Geopolitics of Environmental Challenges
  • How America Receives Refugees
  • Climate change and mass migration: a growing threat to global security
  • Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 345,440; Deaths at Sea: 4,655
  • What’s Driving the Global Refugee Crisis?
  • Haiti: Malteser International prepares emergency relief after Hurricane Matthew
  • How will joining the UN change IOM?
  • Iraq: Malteser International provides aid to thousands displaced by fresh fighting near Mosul
  • One year after the earthquake in Nepal
• Category: Migrants & Refugees
  • Migration: Order of Malta at the Marrakech Summit to Adopt the Global Compact
  • Aquarius Migrants, Order of Malta’s Medical Team on Dattilo: “In their eyes the hope for a better future”
  • Highlighting ‘positive impact’ of migration key to changing policies, public opinion un envoy
  • I was born and raised in a refugee camp
  • Pope Francis addresses Judges’ summit on human trafficking and organized crime
  • Global forced displacement hits record high
  • NGO: how to stop people smugglers’ murderous trade
  • A record number of internally displaced
  • Refugees: a challenge for Europe
  • Conference on Migrants and Cities
  • Lebanon … perpetual refugee camps ?
  • Refugee crisis “Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon are likely to falter”
  • Italian Relief Corps’ New Syrian Refugee Rescue Mission in the Aegean presented to the Press
  • The Humanitarian Caste System?
  • Migrants and refugees … causes and consequences
  • “Inaction is sometimes more costly than action.”
  • “We still have not seen anything on migration push”
  • EU and migrations
  • Role and Missions of the Sovereign Order of Malta
  • Refugee Crisis: New Operation for Order of Malta Italian Relief Corps in the Aegean Sea
  • “We have not yet realized how these new migrants are like us”
  • Climate refugees: eternal “forgotten Law People”?
  • Migrants : Mgr Tomasi denounces the “populist rhetoric”
  • World Refugee Day: Albrecht Boeselager’s statement on the current crisis
  • Order of Malta Germany organises acutely topical conference on migration
  • The Order of Malta’s doctors and psychologists tackle the new drama in the Strait of Sicily
  • The Order Of malta increases its efforts to assist refugees arriving in Europe
  • EU, migrants, borders …
• Category: Natural catastrophes
  • Climate change at the centre of new global IFRC strategy
  • Record support for advancing Paris Climate Agreement
  • Floods : the global threat
  • Which countries are most at risk from climate change and how can we help?
  • The Future of Securing Global Cities
  • When life hangs by a glass of drinking water
  • The drone, new weapon of Humanitarian
  • Scaling Up Climate and Disaster Resilience for the World’s Most Vulnerable
  • More than a tree …
  • The private sector: stepping up
  • Ditching the disaster cycle: Focus on sustainable development to manage risk
  • UNISDR’s Margareta Wahlström on the Nitty-gritty of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Humanitarian partnerships: reality lags behind the rhetoric
  • Drones to be used in Earthquake damage assessment
  • What role can business play in dealing with disasters?
  • A Cuban model for a resilient Caribbean
  • De fortes inondations dans le sud et le sud-est de l’Asie : la prévention a évité le pire
  • Infographic: How Disasters Drive Hunger
• Category: Newsletters
  • Newsletter 18/01/20
  • Newsletter 26/11/19
  • Newsletter 02/07/19
  • Newsletter 07/03/19
  • Newsletter 10/01/19
  • Newsletter 15/11/18
  • Newsletter 16/10/18
  • Newsletter 17/09/18
  • Newsletter 17/05/18
  • Newsletter 17/04/18
  • NEWSLETTER january 11th 2018
  • NEWSLETTER december 12th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER november 28th 2017
  • BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, November 15, 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of october 31th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of october 04th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of July 21th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of June 26th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of June 20th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of June 1th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of May 18th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of May 5th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of April 27th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of April 14th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of March 30th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of March 22th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of March 15th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of March 08th 2017
  • NEWSLETTER Week of March 03th 2017
• Category: Others
  • Why this website ?
• Category: Trafficking in human beings
  • Human Trafficking & High Technology – Intervention by Prof. Michel Veuthey, Ambassador of the SMOM
  • Statement by Professor Michel Veuthey, Deputy Permanent Observer in Geneva
  • The Order of Malta reaffirms its strong commitment to fight human trafficking
  • The Order of Malta commits itself against trafficking in human beings
• Category: Uncategorized