Hopefully MSF will be able to again focus all our attention on providing humanitarian assistance to the victims of the conflict in Darfur The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the dropping of all charges against Paul Foreman, its head of mission...
Migrating women and children are most vulnerable to sexual violence Geneva, 16th of June 2005; Geneva, 16th of June 2005; 80 percent of the refugees worldwide are women and children. They are particularly vulnerable to violence and sexual violence. Today, access to adequate medical treatment and...
MSF awaits further developments in this case MSF confirms the arrest of the prime suspect in the killings of 5 colleagues in Afghanistan in June 2004. The Afghan government has informed MSF that the suspect has been arrested in the past week and brought to Kabul. The government confirmed as well...
Rwandans being declared "illegal immigrants" Bujumbura, 13 June 2005 - Medical staff from the international medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been denied access to Songore, a transit camp for some 7,000 Rwandese that fled to Burundi earlier in May. The clinic of MSF inside the...
The 1st exhibition is at New Town Plaza I, Shatin Imagine going to the doctor with a serious disease only to find out that a treatment exists, but that you are too poor to pay for it. Or that the only medicine available is decades old and no longer works - or that you may even die from the...
MSF wishes to express its gratitude towards all the people who participated in the liberation process The two members of MSF Switzerland who were abducted north of Bunia, in Ituri (DRC) on June 2nd have been freed by their abductors this afternoon. They are in good health and have been safely...
MSF has reluctantly decided to suspend all its medical activities outside of Bunia The 2 MSF staff abducted on June 2nd near Jina in Ituri District, north of Bunia, have still not been freed by their abductors. The medical humanitarian organisation calls for the immediate and unconditional release...
MSF condemns this yet unexplained act Since last night (2 June 2005), Medecins Sans Frontieres has lost contact with two of its staff members who were travelling by road in a clearly marked and identified vehicle towards the Jina IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp situated 35 kms North of...
Dutch co-ordinator for MSF in Darfur held this afternoon The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses its outrage about the arrest of a second representative in Sudan this afternoon. Dutchman Vincent Hoedt, regional co-ordinator for MSF in Darfur was...
