আটকে পড়া এবং ভুলে যাওয়া এক জনগোষ্ঠী: কোথায় নিরাপত্তা চাইবে রোহিঙ্গারা?
September 5, 2024মিয়ানমারের রাখাইন রাজ্যে ক্রমবর্ধমান সংঘাতের কারণে রোহিঙ্গা জনগোষ্ঠী আটকে পড়ছে, যারা সীমান্ত পেরিয়ে বাংলাদেশে প্রবেশ করতে পারছে না, কোনরকম নিরাপত্তা বা সহায়তা ছাড়াই তাদের ফেরত পাঠিয়ে দেওয়া হচ্ছে। “আমরা বিস্ফোরণ, গুলির শব্দ এবং মানুষের চিৎকার শুনেছি,” ১৭ মে সন্ধ্যায় যখন...
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Bangladesh: Trapped and forgotten, where can Rohingya people seek safety?
August 22, 2024Click here to read this article in Bangla. As Rohingya become increasingly trapped by raging conflict in Myanmar's Rakhine state, those who cannot pay their way across the border into Bangladesh are being left without protection or assistance. “We heard explosions, gunfire...
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United States: MSF resumes support to local groups helping migrants in Arizona desert
August 22, 2024Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) is resuming its work in support of Tucson-based nonprofit groups that are bringing humanitarian aid to migrants and asylum seekers crossing the US-Mexico border near the Sonoran Desert, the organization announced today. Earlier this year, a...
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Tragic shipwreck off the Italian coast: Flash quote from Marco Bertotto, Head of Operations MSF Italy
June 19, 2024Faced with yet another heartbreaking count, 21 bodies and over 60 missing in just 10 days in the Mediterranean Sea, the institutional silence is shameful. It is a silence that disregards the pain of survivors, a dehumanizing void that is...
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Humanitarian corridors to evacuate migrants out of Libya needed
June 17, 2024In June 2022, Médecins Sans Frontières called on European and North American governments, among others, to urgently offer protection to migrants trapped in Libya by strengthening existing exit mechanisms (via the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees – UNHCR...
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MSF concerned over deportations of Afghans from Pakistan
April 19, 2024In the wake of the recent announcement by the Pakistani authorities that ‘Phase Two’ of the ‘repatriation plan’ of Afghans in the country will begin after Eid (15 April), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the rights and...
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Panama: Médecins Sans Frontières is forced to suspend medical care for migrants in Darien Gap
March 14, 2024The humanitarian organization warns it is urgent to resume medical activities as soon as possible to guarantee access to health, especially for those who are victims of attacks and sexual violence in the jungle. Bogotá / Panama City: Since Monday,...
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Chad: Alarming water crisis in Adré puts refugees’ lives at risk
October 19, 2023Access to safe drinking water in the camps at Adré, a border town in eastern Chad, remains far below acceptable standards, posing a grave threat to the health and wellbeing of around 200,000 Sudanese refugees. According to UNHCR estimates, average...
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MSF calls for urgent international help for Sudanese refugees in Chad as major crisis looms
August 14, 2023As people continue to flee the conflict in Sudan, more than 358,000 refugees have arrived at the border town Adré, in eastern Chad. Refugee camps are being built, but the shelter and basic facilities available in the camps are wholly...
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41 people died in shipwreck off Lampedusa
August 10, 2023By Juan Matías Gil, MSF Search and Rescue Representative“These kinds of tragedies are happening daily in the Mediterranean and at the European borders, right in front of everyone’s eyes. More and more people have been taking the sea to find refuge over...
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Violence and pushbacks at Italian-French border: People on the move left without shelter or healthcare in Italy
August 8, 2023Ventimiglia, 4th August, 2023 - Systematically pushed back at the border by French police – often with violence, inhumane treatment as well as arbitrary detention – and left without adequate shelter and with limited access to healthcare in Italy. In...
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“I saw many corpses on my way” – Stories from the massive influx of wounded Sudanese in eastern Chad
August 3, 2023By the time the current conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April, its Darfur region had already been facing war and ethnic violence for over two decades. Today’s fighting – which first erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces...
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