MSF warns it is urgent to resume medical activities as soon as possible to guarantee access to health, especially for those who are victims of attacks and sexual violence in the jungle. Since Monday, March 4th, the Médecins Sans Frontières has been forced to suspend all medical activity for the...
In 2017, Over 700,000 Rohingyas fled targeted campaigns of violence launched by the Myanmar military against this minority in Rakhine state, southwest Myanmar. Since then, three Rohingya photographers have documented people ’s daily lives in the biggest refugee camp in the world, in Bangladesh’s...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report ( click here to download) today detailing the harrowing consequences of Europe's policy-made crisis at its borders and beyond. Drawn from first-hand accounts from medical staff and patients, over 20,000 emergency medical consultations, and more...
"Lost at Sea," a powerful animated film produced by Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Noon Films (based in Barcelona, Spain), and Presence (based in London) has garnered recognition and acclaim on the international stage. The film recently secured two significant awards,...
Al-Hol camp is on the southern outskirts of the town of Al-Hol in northeast Syria. Following the defeat of Islamic State (IS) in Syria, the camp is now effectively an outdoor detention centre where people who were displaced during fighting between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and IS in 2018...
A new wave of fighting has gripped Myanmar over the past two months. MSF is providing medical humanitarian assistance in Shan, Kachin and Rakhine states, and we have witnessed healthcare facilities damaged or abandoned and hundreds of thousands of newly displaced people attempting to flee for...
At one hour past midnight on January 7, a fire broke out in Camp 5, one of the 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It took three hours to bring the blaze under control, but that was enough time for the fire to destroy nearly 900 shelters and damage hundreds more. As a result, 7,000 Rohingya...
A retrospective mortality survey carried out among Sudanese refugees in Chad by Epicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières’ medical research and epidemiology centre, documents the appalling scale of the wave of violence that swept through the region last June, while atrocities have continued in recent...
Two and a half years ago, on March 22, 2021, a devastating fire swept through the world's largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It killed 15, injured 560, and left 45,000 people without shelter. The fire also destroyed the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Balukhali. However, just as...
With almost 2,200 children, women, and men reported missing or dead in the Central Mediterranean this year, 2023 has already earned the unenviable record of being the deadliest year on this migration route since 2017. In its new report, No one came to our rescue (click the hyperlink to download),...
