MSF announces the relaunch of its search and rescue activities in the central Mediterranean to save the lives of refugees and migrants attempting the deadly sea crossing from Libya.
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Kyrgyzstan: Border clashes leave thousands homeless and in shock
30,000 people in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken and Leilek districts have been forced to abandon their villages after violent clashes, including exchanges of fire, took place between Kyrgyz and Tajik armed forces in late April.
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Northeast Syria: Hospitals run out of funds and medical supplies during second COVID-19 wave
The true numbers of people affected by COVID-19 is believed to be much higher than what is reported as people continue to struggle to access testing and healthcare.
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Enforcement of Title 42 deportations leads to dire humanitarian consequences on Mexico’s northern border
Hundreds of people deported by the United States to Mexico under the Title 42 policy – most of them women and children – are stranded in a public square in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, vulnerable to kidnapping and violence and going without basic necessities.
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Climate Emergency: No choice but to act
MSF pledges to reduce the carbon emissions of its medical humanitarian projects by at least 50 percent by 2030 to safeguard the future health of patients and communities.
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MSF resumes activities in response to India’s COVID-19 second wave
The city is very densely populated and the poor and dilapidated hygiene conditions are a triple trigger for the virus to breed, infect and spread rapidly.
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Mexico: Militarization of borders and mass expulsions increase dangers for asylum seekers and migrants
The commitments announced last week between the United States, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to reinforce the militarization of borders will further criminalize people on the move, says the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), leaving migrants more exposed to organized crime and COVID-19. MSF has witnessed both repeated raids and arbitrary detentions […]
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Fire destroys Rohingya refugee shelters and MSF clinic
A large fire has broken out in camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh where around 900,000 refugees are currently living. According to United Nations (UN) estimates, around 15 people lost their lives during the massive blaze, 560 people were injured and up to 10,000 families (more than 45,000 people) have been displaced, but the final numbers are […]
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Niger: Deportations put migrants’ lives at risk
Safi Keita, from Mali, made her living in Algeria by selling spices. Her two children had stayed in Mali with her mother, and she was four months pregnant with her third child on the day that police arrived at her home. “The gendarmes broke down the door,” she says. “They took everything: money and phones. […]
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Opening remarks – Dr. Jason Nickerson, Humanitarian Affairs Advisor
Standing Committee on Health February 26, 2021 Good afternoon and thank you to the Committee for having me back today. It has been said many times that this is a global pandemic that requires global solidarity and global actions. In addition to protecting Canadians, it is essential that our government unite behind a […]
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