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The Health & Humanity Summit 2025 Exhibition serves as both the emotional anchor and intellectual framework for the summit’s discourse. Through three interconnected exhibition spaces, visitors will engage with the complex realities of humanitarian healthcare in crisis contexts, confront the growing threat of attacks on medical facilities, and explore pathways toward resilience and renewed solidarity.
The exhibition transforms abstract policy discussions into tangible human experiences, making visible the often invisible pillars of humanitarian healthcare while advocating for their protection.
Beyond its aesthetic and informational value, the exhibition serves several strategic purposes:
Alliance Française de Delhi serves as a cultural hub where individuals with an interest in French language and culture can converge, learn, and exchange ideas. By promoting cross-cultural understanding, AFD plays a crucial role in nurturing ties between India and France through its language programs and diverse cultural activities.
This powerful installation features silhouette sculptures representing the diverse roles that sustain humanitarian healthcare beyond the traditional medical roles. Each silhouette is designed with precise cutouts that cast meaningful shadows, revealing hidden dimensions of their work.
Key Roles Featured:
Each silhouette represents expertise that becomes essential when conventional systems collapse. The shadows cast symbolize the broader impact of these roles beyond their immediate functions, highlighting how resilience emerges from within communities rather than external intervention.
A partial recreation of the destroyed Kunduz trauma center serves not as an endpoint but as the beginning of a larger conversation about the protection of healthcare in conflict zones. Through physical space, interactive elements, and contextual information, visitors confront the reality of what happens when the protected status of medical facilities is violated.
Moving beyond Kunduz, this section presents a timeline of major attacks on MSF healthcare workers and facilities worldwide. The #NotATarget section serves as both a memorial and a call to action, with the timeline explicitly connecting to the upcoming 10-year anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 2286 in May 2026.
This dynamic installation by renowned sand artist Manas Sahoo translates the summit’s abstract themes into visceral visual narratives through a medium that is inherently transformative and ephemeral.
The performance’s transformative nature mirrors the summit’s focus on systems in transition, with the sequential narrative moving from crisis to collective action.
The exhibition is designed as a journey that moves visitors through emotional and intellectual stages:
Acknowledging the diverse roles that sustain humanitarian healthcare.
Facing the reality of attacks on healthcare as a systemic global challenge
Visualizing pathways from crisis to solidarity
The Health & Humanity Summit 2025 Exhibition invites you to witness, reflect, and engage with the critical challenges and opportunities facing humanitarian healthcare today.
When traditional humanitarian frameworks falter, how can South-to-South solidarity and local innovation
reshape the future of crisis response? This panel calls for a commitment to amplify non-traditional voices,
strengthen horizontal partnerships, and recognize communities not as beneficiaries, but as drivers of
sustainable change.
In the face of eroding international humanitarian legitimacy and shrinking donor engagement, it is
communities, community-based organizations (CBOs), and local NGOs, often outside traditional aid
frameworks, that are sustaining health, rights, and social cohesion on the ground. This panel explores how
these local actors, together with emerging South-to-South partnerships and non-traditional solidarity
networks, are innovating to address complex crises and systemic failures.
These actors navigate political constraints, resource gaps, and exclusion from formal decision-making, yet
remain indispensable in delivering services, advocating for rights, and rebuilding trust at the community
level. The discussion will highlight how South-to-South cooperation fosters knowledge exchange, capacity
building, and collaborative action among affected countries and communities, challenging the dominance
of Global North-driven aid models.
By centering local and regional perspectives, this panel invites a critical reflection on how humanitarian
legitimacy and effectiveness can be redefined through equitable partnerships that empower communities
as leaders, innovators, and rights holders, shaping solutions rooted in context, solidarity, and justice.
In fragile and conflict-affected settings, access to sexual and reproductive health is not only deprioritized,
but also actively denied. From bans on female healthcare workers in Afghanistan, to rising child marriage in
humanitarian crises, to silent rollbacks on HIV and safe abortion services amid political instability, SRHR is
treated as negotiable, optional, or dangerous. This panel will explore how restrictive laws, collapsing
systems, and donor retreat converge to systematically erase women and girls’ rights to healthcare.
Taking a sharp look at countries in South Asia, the panel will interrogate the failures of both national
governments and the international system to protect the right to reproductive autonomy in times of crisis. It
will also reflect on the operational dilemmas faced by actors like MSF, navigating care delivery amid legal
ambiguity, cultural resistance, and gender-based exclusion.
The foundational principles that once protected medical care in conflict, neutrality, impartiality, and the
inviolability of health facilities, are under attack. From Gaza to Sudan, we are witnessing the collapse not
only of health systems, but of the moral and legal frameworks meant to protect them. Governments obstruct
or weaponize aid, international institutions fail to enforce accountability, and NGOs face growing constraints
in both access and legitimacy.
This panel will explore how these interconnected failures reflect a deeper erosion of trust in the global
humanitarian architecture and ask: what becomes of healthcare when every actor, from states to INGOs, is
seen as falling short? How do we navigate this fractured landscape while upholding the right to health, and
what forms of responsibility and collaboration are possible when traditional mechanisms no longer hold?