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On the one month anniversary of the bombing of Kunduz Hospital in Afghanistan, Doctors Without Borders and supporters around the world came together to grieve and honor colleagues and patients who were killed. “We continue to fight back for the respect of the Geneva Conventions. We are fighting back for the sake of our patients” - MSF-USA Executive Director Jason Cone www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Join our memorial vigil for #Kunduz: Next Tuesday November 3rd will mark one month since the attack on our hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and we still have no clear explanation for what happened. Read more info on the NYC event here: http://bit.ly/1XFkqeC
This attack is another illustration of a complete disregard for civilians in Yemen, where bombings have become a daily routine
Doctors Without Hospitals
An op-ed by MSF appearing in the New York Times: “Crucial to recognize, identify, assign
responsibility for International Humanitarian Law violations when they do occur”
Hope For War-Wounded Patients Needing Reconstructive Surgery
“This hospital has become a second home for me; I’ve made more friends here from the other patients than I have in Iraq. We get to watch football matches on TV. I support Real Madrid and I will always do so” - 15 year old Ahmad was injured when an ambushed car a few meters from his school building exploded.
“Honour – that utopic and fragile concept – was threatened all the time by intolerance, violence and war. This probably was the only space in the world where such respect exists between enemies” http://bit.ly/1J2hH5X
Photo by Gabrielle Klein/MSF
In Dalal, an MSF community health worker educates a resident on hygiene and reproductive health. Informing displaced people on the essentials of personal and public health allows them and their families to make decisions that benefit their lives the future. It also may prevent outbreaks of devastating diseases in overcrowded camps.
Photo by Gabrielle Klein/MSF
Kahdr lives with 6,000 other people in what they call a “concrete skeleton” in the city of Dabin, just outside the town of Zakho. In these unfinished building structures, “There is no electricity, no running water, no windows, no guardrail for the stairs. We are living in fear our children fall down,” he says. Buildings like these provide some of the only shelter for many refugees, but the poor infrastructure puts those who live in them at significant risk.
“The experience changed me completely; my innocence died there.” Twenty years ago, Rachel Kiddell-Monroe was head of mission in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) during and after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Here she talks about MSF’s response during the genocide and how the aid response and success in Rwanda should serve as a model for DRC’s North Kivu Province just over the border.
Today marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide during which approximately 800,000 people lost their lives. Many MSF staff were among the dead. For the first time MSF is sharing its internal communications during the genocide and its aftermath with the public. These reports depict the struggles and humanitarian dilemmas that the organization faced internally. See MSF’s Speaking Out Case Studies: http://speakingout.msf.org/en/genocide-of-rwandan-tutsi
Photo by Samantha Maurin /MSF
The refugees, including many children, from CAR who’ve arrived seeking safety in Sido, Chad, have witnessed the worst atrocities. “Most of the refugees who told me their stories did so in a monotone, with solemn faces,“ said an MSF psychiatrist, "without going into details about the bodies carved up in the massacres, keeping their distance from the expression of painful emotions.”http://bit.ly/1mfQyVR
Some 2.96 million people are currently displaced in DR Congo and many of them have no access to humanitarian assistance. Many communities are cut off from medical care due to poor infrastructure, displacement and conflict, and adequate assistance is not being provided in rural and conflict-affected areas by aid organizations and by the state. At the same time, violence against civilians, medical staff and property is commonplace, and health care providers are regularly required to suspend operations, leaving people deprived of the medical care they urgently need. Read MSF’s report, “Everyday Emergency: Silent Suffering in Democratic Republic of Congo”: http://bit.ly/1mT34fk
“I was shot, even though I wasn’t fighting anyone or committing any crime.” - Munyasadimana, a displaced man in Mgunga camp, DRC. Hear the stories of some of the 2.96 million people currently displaced in that country. After 20 years of fighting, a lack of medical assistance and other needs, many displaced Congolese experience “Everyday violence”.
Photo © Mikhail Galustov
Sardar (sitting), 34, is from Nahri Saraj district of Helmand province. After a car accident, he received poor treatment at a local health facility during which a doctor removed synovial liquid from his knee. It has left him unable to walk and in need of complex, costly surgery available only in Kabul. Even if he can borrow the money to pay for the procedure, there is no guarantee that it will work. Read more: http://bit.ly/1et7DTh
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