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...Kenya in 2004, a Jesuit priest who ran an orphanage in Nairobi, Father Angelo D'Agostino, made headlines when he accused the "drug cartels" of "genocidal action." Today drug companies have lowered the prices of some ARVs. But the controversy threatens to reignite. In July, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that newer, more effective drugs were once again being priced prohibitively high. "There is a serious risk that the price crisis ... is set to return," MSF said...
More than three decades have passed since Kouchner first railed to the world about the human costs of conflict in Africa. In 1971, while working as a young relief doctor in war-torn Biafra, he co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders, which would go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At the age of 67, Kouchner is still railing, but with a big difference: he is now the Foreign Minister of France, a post from which he could recast the country's approach to international relations, not least by potentially reviving...
From Médecins Sans Frontières to his stands on Iraq and Darfur, Kouchner's driving principle has been what he calls "the right to intervene." It's the idea that governments and nongovernmental organizations cannot let another country's sovereignty stop them from fighting injustice. "You cannot offer humanitarian help and then it's over, like a Good Samaritan," he says. Now that he's Foreign Minister, some French aid organizations worry that he may try to deploy French troops to bolster relief efforts. That, they argue, could strip humanitarian groups of their role as impartial actors...
...food-distribution stalls and wooden latrines. But that's the point.[an error occurred while processing this directive] Designed to expose the public to the spartan life of those made homeless by war, disaster or famine, the Refugee Camp in the City exhibit, organized by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is a touring camp replica that has already appeared in the U.S., Italy, Germany and Hong Kong, where it recently drew more than 8,000 people. Photos of victims of the Kashmir earthquake, Rwandan genocide and Ethiopian famines are displayed. But behind the tragedy, the camp...
...much to look at?tents, food-distribution stalls and wooden latrines. But that's the point. Designed to expose the public to the spartan life of those made homeless by war, disaster or famine, the Refugee Camp in the City exhibit, organized by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is a touring camp replica that has already appeared in the U.S., Italy, Germany and Hong Kong, where it recently drew more than 8,000 people...