Why was an MSF cargo plane carrying, among other badly needed supplies, an inflatable surgical hospital, not allowed to land in Port-au-Prince on Saturday and re-routed to the Dominican Republic?
At a time when our own deficit is soaring and the US faces innumerable challenges, we must unlock our creative capacities and cast new lines to help Haiti.
Goldman Sachs made $9Billion in profits last year. That is $174 Million per week, $38 Million per trading day, $5.7 Million per trading hour, $96,000 per minute.
The seismic shift that began just 10 miles outside Haiti's capital city this past week is nothing if not symbolic of the republic's enduring trail of tragedy.
Javier Roldan, a 35-year-old nurse from Spain, has just returned from Somalia where he has captured the situation of the population in one rural hospi...
Reporting from Jalalabad, Afghanistan - Peering through a gap in her black veil, Bibi Totia watched anxiously as the doctor examined her fussing grand...
In "Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders," filmmakers open a window on an inaccessible world, revealing the medical and personal challenges of Doctors Without Borders volunteers.
Congolese president Joseph Kabila paved the way for a troupe of Spanish Clowns, while thugs and militia rule the Kivus and truth-seeking journalist are threatened.
New Radicals are appearing in each field, every sector, and around the world.
4:00pm, Thursday. I am on my back on my couch, encouraging the muscles that run between my frozen shoulder and my vertebrae to relax. Everything is in...
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The Italian foreign ministry said Friday that three foreign aid workers being held hostage in Darfur had been released but rep...
Three foreign aid workers who were kidnapped two days ago in the conflict-ridden Sudanese province of Darfur contacted their organization Friday morni...
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Armed men burst into an aid agency compound in Darfur and kidnapped three Westerners, heightening fears that foreigners will b...
JOHANNESBURG — More needs to be done to deal with an epidemic of rape in the world's conflict zones and to help victimized women, Doctors Withou...
The outbreak -- one of the world's largest, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) -- is only getting worse, and could be a stepping-stone t...
The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner yesterday dismissed claims that he had mingled humanitarian activities with paid work for African dictato...
Four days after Israeli air attacks against the Gaza Strip began, hospitals are already overwhelmed by the influx of wounded patients.
Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, alon...
In March of 2008, I interviewed a senior State Department Official who discussed efforts to highlight awareness of the link between sex trafficking and HIV/AIDS.
