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Europe

Lithuania: Repeated pushbacks at the border causing mental and physical suffering to people on the move

Asylum seekers and migrants, including families with young children, are being subjected to repeated pushbacks between the borders of Lithuania and Be...

Refugees

Malaysia

Press Release: Doctors Without Borders’ first film screening in Malaysia

‘Enriching’, ‘enlightening’ and ‘thought provoking’, these were some of the comments from the audience of Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Fron...

Greece

Doctors Without Borders provides support to more than 570 people arriving on Samos Island

More than 570 people, including 24 pregnant women, have received emergency medical and psychological first aid on 42 occasions over the past year by t...

Refugees

Critical risk of more deaths in the central Mediterranean in absence of search and rescue operations

SOS MEDITERRANEE, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and SEA-WATCH urgently call for the provision of European state-led search...

Mediterranean Migration

DR Congo

Doctors Without Borders exerts proactive efforts to address abusive behaviours

In late 2020, a media investigation revealed multiple accounts of abuse from employees of organisations involved in the response to the 10th outbreak ...

Ebola

Myanmar

Myanmar: After 10 years in camps, Rohingya mental health continues to suffer

In 2012, when violence erupted between Rohingya and Rakhine communities, Zaw Rina’s home in Pauktaw town was burned down. She was forced to flee with ...

Mental health

Rohingya refugee crisis

Ukraine

Ukraine: Doctors Without Borders mobile healthcare supports a rural town

Unlike some other humanitarian emergencies where local healthcare systems collapse or struggle to meet people’s needs, hospitals and civil society org...

War and conflict

Iraq

Mosul, Iraq: A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs

In October 2016, the military offensive to retake the city from the Islamic State group (ISg) began. The battle was officially declared “over” five ye...

Syria

Syria: UN Security Council must renew lifesaving cross-border aid into northwest Syria

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to renew the cross-border resolution (UNS...