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Speech: MSF Highlights Three Urgent Humanitarian Crises Amid Global Inaction in House of Commons meeting

Posted on 29 October 2024 (30 October 2024)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), provides medical humanitarian care to people who have been forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict, persecution and, increasingly, climate change. Our teams provide vital medical care at every step of people’s treacherous displacement journeys, including providing surgery and trauma care, maternal health and obstetrics services, vaccination […]

MSF denounces Israel’s ban on UNRWA, the latest devastating blow to the Palestinians

Posted on 29 October 2024 (18 February 2025)

The Israeli Knesset’s ban on UNRWA’s operations voted on Oct. 28 represents a devastating blow to Palestinian life. It will further undermine people’s survival prospects in Gaza and heavily impact communities in the West Bank. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces this legislation, which represents an inhumane ban on vital humanitarian aid. The Knesset’s […]

Gaza: MSF calls for safety and information on missing doctor

Posted on 28 October 2024 (18 February 2025)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the safety and whereabouts of Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon who was sheltering and working in Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza, with whom we lost contact since the afternoon of Oct. 25. The hospital and its surroundings have been subjected to intense military operations by […]

Stories of displaced: Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon in search of a safe place after large-scale Israeli bombardments

Posted on 1 October 2024 (25 October 2024)

Following the large-scale Israeli bombardment in Lebanon over the past week, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese families including MSF staff, have been forced out of their houses and pushed on the roads, in a desperate search of a safe place. MSF is providing support to displaced people in shelters, like schools, in the south of […]

Q&A: A Canadian Emergency Coordinator shares the catastrophic impact of war in Sudan

Posted on 24 September 2024 (27 September 2024)

Canadian Ada Yee is an MSF emergency coordinator who has worked in over 17 countries, including Ethiopia, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Yemen. She recently completed a four-month assignment in Sudan’s South Darfur region and shares some insight on the impact of the war in Sudan. 17 months after war broke out […]

MSF steps up humanitarian response in Lebanon, many people displaced

Posted on 24 September 2024 (25 October 2024)

Following the widescale Israeli bombings of multiple areas in Lebanon on Monday Sep. 23, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is gradually stepping up its response to the escalating humanitarian needs by delivering primary healthcare and essential relief items to the displaced population. According to the Ministry of Health, 558 people were killed and 1,835 […]

Open letter to Canadian Parliamentarians: Four urgent humanitarian priorities requiring bold action

Posted on 16 September 2024 (16 September 2024)

Dear Parliamentarians, As you return from across the country to the House of Commons in Ottawa for the next sitting of Canada’s Parliament, we find ourselves at a moment of significant global unrest. Hundreds of millions of people’s lives, safety and dignity are at risk due to conflicts, disasters, and their deliberate exclusion from accessing […]

Rohingyas: MSF volunteers recount their harrowing journey from Myanmar and Malaysia to Canada

Posted on 11 September 2024 (11 September 2024)

MSF volunteers recount their journey from Myanmar and Malaysia to Canada. […]

Haiti: MSF denounces obstruction of ambulance

Posted on 6 September 2024 (6 September 2024)

On Tuesday, September 3, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince and detained, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. The patient was suffering from an open fracture and in urgent need of hospital care. Held for more than an hour, […]

Mpox: MSF responds to WHO declaring mpox a public health emergency of international concern

Posted on 19 August 2024 (19 August 2024)

On 13 August 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recognised the Africa CDC’s declaration and were relieved that the World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 August declared the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a […]

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