Burundi: MSF closes second emergency intervention for Congolese refugees in Musenyi
September 1, 2025Since the start of the year, tens of thousands of people have fled ongoing instability in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), seeking refuge in neighbouring Burundi. In the south-east of the country, more than 17,000 refugees are...
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MSF report: Dehumanizing migration policies in the Americas leave hundreds of thousands of people abandoned in danger
August 12, 2025MSF calls on governments in the region to shift away from harsh deterrence tactics and towards humane migration and protection policy. Mexico City, 12 August 2025—In its first six months in office, the current US Administration has implemented the most...
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World Breastfeeding Week: Nurturing hope amid migration challenges in Latin America
August 4, 2025“I’ve breastfed him throughout the entire migration route,” says María*, a 34-year-old Venezuelan mother traveling with her two children. Their journey began in Peru, where her youngest son was born two years ago, and continued through Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa...
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World Refugee Day: Faces of resilience
June 20, 2025Faces of resilience is the collective story of four resilient women who rebuilt their lives in Greece after fleeing conflict, hardship, and displacement from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Iran. On World Refugee Day, these women refuse to be defined by labels...
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France: MSF reorients its activities to better protect unaccompanied girls
April 23, 2025Paris, France- Since July 2024, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reoriented its day centre for unaccompanied minors in Pantin, northeastern Paris, towards a programme exclusively dedicated to young girls. These teenage girls, who have filed appeals for recognition as minors,...
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Gaza: Mass displacements in northern West Bank take a dramatic toll on Palestinians, warns MSF
March 21, 2025JERUSALEM - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that tens of thousands of displaced people in the northern West Bank, Palestine, are without proper shelter, essential services, and access to healthcare. Following the January 2025 ceasefire in Gaza, Israel launched the...
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Rohingya voices: A harrowing journey from Myanmar and Malaysia to Canada
September 13, 2024For many years, Sandar Lynn Rashid and her husband Mohd Ayas Hashim, both members of the persecuted Rohingya minority, volunteered for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State. Ayas was a health educator while...
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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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