10-14 | The massive political mobilisation seen around the issue of chemical weapons in Syria, reemphasised by the award last Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), must immediately be applied to humanitarian access, the aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Many areas of Syria remain entirely under siege, sealed-off from life-saving humanitarian assistance, either because access is blocked by the Damascus authorities or due to the intensit
10-14 | The massive political mobilisation seen around the issue of chemical weapons in Syria, reemphasised by the award last Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), must immediately be applied to humanitarian access, the aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Many areas of Syria remain entirely under siege, sealed-off from life-saving humanitarian assistance, either because access is blocked by the Damascus authorities or due to the intensit
10-10 | Access CampaignAs Asia-Pacific leaders prepare to meet in Bali for the APEC Summit, where the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement trade deal will be high on the agenda, MSF urged governments not to make political trade-offs during trade negotiations that will harm access to affordable medicines for millions of people. Central African Republic More than 9,000 children from CAR are now protected against measles and polio, following the emergency intervention in Gadzi, north-eastern CAR, which
9-28 | Following the agreement brokered between the governments of Russia and the United States of America, the international medical humanitarian organisation 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. Given the multiplicity of States and non-State actors involved in the Syrian conflict, it is imperative that the Russian and U.S.
9-10 | Access CampaignWith the start of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations taking place in Brunei in August, MSF warned that the negotiators were moving towards finalizing a deal that in fact would restrict access to affordable medicines and constrain governments’ ability to protect the health of their citizens.