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- Over the last month more than 1,000 current and former staffers with the aid group Doctors Without Borders have signed a letter with an explosive accusation: The vaunted organization, they say, is built on a mindset of "white supremacy" that perpetuates "racism by our staff, in our policies, in our hiring practices, in our workplace culture, and through the imposition of dehumanising 'humanitarian' programmes by a privileged, white minority workforce."
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Feb 15, 2022 · Learn about the origins, achievements, and challenges of Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian organization that works in conflict zones and crisis situations. Find out how the organization faced expulsion, accusations, and racism in some countries, and how it received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
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May 9, 2022 · Doctors Without Borders is renowned for providing medical aid in some of the most challenging emergency zones around the world. But lately it has been grappling with another kind of...
Nov 28, 2023 · Doctors Without Borders has been working in the West Bank since fighting intensified between the Israelis and Palestinians after Oct. 7. But a video post on social media misleadingly claims...
A dirt road cuts through a sprawling refugee camp in South Sudan where Doctors Without Borders has a hospital. In a letter, 1,000 current and former employees are accusing the aid group of...
Sep 24, 2021 · Insiders at the relief agency Doctors Without Borders say the organization is rife with racism and unequal treatment of workers around the world.
- Mara Kardas-Nelson
Nov 18, 2020 · The claim that Doctors Without Borders is dispatching physicians to the U.S. is partly false. The organization ran temporary projects in the U.S. from April to October, but has since closed all its U.S. operations and turned over its programs to local health authorities and groups.
Sep 25, 2021 · Doctors Without Borders says it’s confronting the hard truths about how racism and colonialism are embedded in the organization. To begin addressing the problem, they say they opened an operational center in West Africa, but Doctors Without Borders has acknowledged these issues for almost 15 years.
