2006年10月1日 · The Biafran leaders' and Christian organizations' communications strategy was completely overshadowed by the denunciation of the "genocide in Biafra", a touchstone – in terms of speaking out – for MSF and other groups formed from the same mobilization at …

The founding of MSF. Amid the Parisian upheavals of May 1968, a group of young doctors decided to go and help victims of wars and major disasters. This new brand of humanitarianism would reinvent the concept of emergency aid. They were to become Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders – MSF.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971 in France by a group of doctors and journalists in the wake of war and famine in Biafra, Nigeria. Their aim was to establish an independent organization that focused on delivering emergency medical humanitarian aid quickly, effectively, and impartially.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971 in France by a group of doctors and journalists in the wake of war and famine in Biafra, Nigeria. Their aim was to establish an independent organisation that focuses on delivering emergency medicine aid …

2011年4月2日 · The myth of Biafra It is commonly acknowledged that MSF was established in response to the commitment to remain silent made by French Red Cross personnel working under the auspices of the ICRC during the war in Biafra (1967–1970). Hence, MSF began by rejecting a predetermined neutrality that the French doctors viewed as passive

Published literature often presents the Nigeria–Biafra War (1967–1970) as marking a ‘before and after’ in the history of humanitarian aid. 1 Generally speaking, the founding of Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders, MSF) after this

Croyant à l'existence d'une famine (au Cambodge) ou d'un génocide (au Biafra), et prenant parole publiquement pour la reconnaissance de ces crises, l'aide humanitaire a servi de soutien à des objectifs politiques (la cause de l'indépendance biafraise et, dans le cas du Cambodge, la lutte contre le communisme).

A team of six set off on an ICRC assignment to Biafra: two doctors – Max Recamier and Bernard Kouchner – as well as two clinicians and two nurses. Being thrown into such a bloody conflict was a real shock for these fledgling doctors, who found themselves having to provide war surgery in hospitals that were regularly targeted by the Nigerian ...

Il y a trente ans, en juillet 1967, les troupes du gouvernement fédéral du Nigeria entraient dans la riche province orientale du pays. Dans cette région qui avait déclaré deux mois plus tôt son indépendance sous le nom de Biafra, un des conflits les plus meurtriers que devait connaître le continent africain commençait.

2014年7月3日 · How do Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) differ, and how are they alike? All observers agree that in many respects, the Biafran War of 1967-70 was the founding event of the modern humanitarian aid movement.