2015

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today launched a petition urging citizens to call on President Obama and the United States to consent to an independent investigation into the bombing of MSF’s trauma hospital in Kunduz,...

Rand, 30, from Damascus, brought two children to MSF’s clinic at Bapska, on the border between Serbia and Croatia, on 27 September 2015. Two-year-old Julie had a cold and eight-year-old Brahim had fallen off his scooter in Syria, cutting his lip, and needed our doctors to check on his stitches. One...

Impending winter and transit delays without adequate assistance poses real threat – MSF Thousands of refugees and migrants in the Balkans, stranded due to delays at border crossings and registration points, have been exposed to conditions that pose a real threat to their health as assistance fails...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been informed that the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) has been activated. This is the first step needed to undertake an independent investigation into the attack on MSF’s hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on 3 October. The IHFFC is now...

MSF calls for State activation of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to investigate Afghanistan bombing Speech delivered by Dr Joanne Liu, MSF International President: On Saturday morning, MSF patients and staff killed in Kunduz joined the countless number of people who have...

Statement by Dr Joanne Liu, President, MSF International For four years, the MSF trauma centre in Kunduz was the only facility of its kind in northeastern Afghanistan, offering essential medical and surgical care. On Saturday 3 October this came to an end when the hospital was deliberately bombed...

Today the US government has admitted that it was their airstrike that hit our hospital in Kunduz and killed 22 patients and MSF staff. Their description of the attack keeps changing – from collateral damage, to a tragic incident, to now attempting to pass responsibility to the Afghanistan...

General Director of MSF Christopher Stokes released a statement early today in response to claims from Afghan officials that MSF's hospital in Kunduz was routinely used by the Taliban for military purposes: "MSF is disgusted by the recent statements coming from some Afghanistan government...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific aerial bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Twelve staff members and at least ten patients, including three children, were killed; 37 people were injured including 19 staff members. This attack...