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Refugees, migration and displacement

Over 70 million people are currently fleeing conflict or persecution around the world. Due to their race, religion or nationality, these people’s homes are no longer safe places to live and their governments’ no longer provide them with protection. 

MSF works around the world to provide lifesaving assistance to refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), from providing psychological care to nutritional support. 

We set up hospitals in refugee camps, we help women give birth safely, we vaccinate children to prevent epidemics and we provide access to safe drinking water. We also have specialised projects to try to reach those who are on the move, for example in Europe or South America, and throughout Africa.  

 
woman walks past a group of young men after collecting water just as the sun set inside the UN Protection of Civilians site in Bentiu. [ © Dominic Nahr / MAPS]
Refugees, Migration and displacement

“The first challenge is disease, the second is security.” 

Stories from the Frontline 27 Jun 2019
 
A man looks out from a shelter in the market zone in Bentiu PoC (Protection of Civilians) site. [ © Emin Ozmen/Magnum Photos ]
Refugees, Migration and displacement

“Sometimes we hear from the radio about peace, but we don't have full information.”

Stories from the Frontline 27 Jun 2019
 
Martha, a pseudonym, is a 27-year-old woman living in the Malakal Protection of Civilian (PoC) site, in north-east South Sudan [ © MSF / Igor Barbero ]
Access to Healthcare

“There is not enough water; the community is too big here.”

Stories from the Frontline 26 Jun 2019
 
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Access to Healthcare

“Healthwise, it was a disaster” – MSF finds catastrophic medical situation in Libya’s Zintan and Gharyan detention centres

Article 24 Jun 2019
 
Mariam and Haoua fled from Zamia and Hilli, two villages in Nigeria. They arrived in Bassira, in Niger three days ago with their husbands and children. Their villages have not yet been attacked but they feared they will be next and chose to run away in se
Refugees, Migration and displacement

If you resist, or just speak, they kill you”

Article 21 Jun 2019
 
an MSF team works in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, (northern Mexico), following the arrival of a caravan of 1,700 migrants. [©Juan Carlos Tomasi / Médecins Sans Frontières]
Access to Healthcare

Mexico: Mass arrests drive migrants underground and cut them off from medical care

Press Release 21 Jun 2019