Op-ed

Amid hospital bombings, rules of war ring hollow: MSF Canada's Stephen Cornish on why civilians are #NotATarget

February 29, 2016

This opinion piece was first published in the Globe and Mail newspaper on February 29, 2016 by Stephen Cornish, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada
Op-ed

'The war in Syria is being waged against the country’s own people': MSF President Dr. Joanne Liu

February 11, 2016
Dr. Joanne Liu, a physician from Montreal, is the International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She wrote the following article on the humanitarian crisis in Syria for The Huffington Post.
 
 
Op-ed

MSF's Dr. Joanne Liu on Syria: An unacceptable humanitarian failure

March 11, 2015

The conflict in Syria is about to enter its fifth year and the situation facing millions of Syrians trapped by the conflict is dire. MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu looks at the horrendous impact of the war so far, and the challenges facing humanitarian actors in an environment where the most vulnerable are often completely cut off from humanitarian assistance. 

By Dr. Joanne Liu
Op-ed

Open Letter to All States and Non-State Actors Involved in the Syrian Conflict

September 27, 2013

Following the agreement brokered between the governments of Russia and the United States of America, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on these two States to place at the top of their diplomatic agendas the substantial scale up of humanitarian aid to millions of war-affected Syrians.
Op-ed

No excuse for failure

May 07, 2013

I recently returned from a two-week mission to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey. There I met with Syrians struggling to survive a brutal civil war that has so far killed more than 70,000 people and forced more than one and a half million to flee to neighbouring countries.