2023-04-132023-04-13https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/58459in the late 1960's we could observe a new "humanitarian wave". Médecins sans Frontière, awarded with the Nobel prize in 1999, sets up a new authority: the right to interfere. We analyse how that interference became a right for human beings, the right to "be human".NGOcompassionemotionhumanitarian organisationinterferenceTerre des HommesMédecins du MondeMédecins sans FrontièreA theory of compassion: the new authority of humanitarian organisationsdissertation project