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Animation of a person lying in the dark in what seems to be a jail cell. Light shines in from a window with bars.
Justice
At a clinic for torture survivors, an Iranian refugee works to build a new life
Arts, Culture & Media
Helping Haiti: Relief through Music
Save the Children workers rescue migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya
Economics
Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day
Abdallah Khalil (right) with friends in northern Paris. Khalil arrived in Paris in December and hopes to get asylum in France.
Conflict
French police don’t want migrants getting too comfortable on the streets of Paris
Tunisian fishermen try on life jackets offered by MSF at the end of the training. The fishermen say in general they lack the equipment to cope with boatloads of migrants and refugees in distress.
Global Politics
Tunisian fishermen are trained to be ‘safety nets’ for migrants making a deadly sea crossing
Workers unload emergency medical aid from Medecins Sans Frontieres from a plane at Sanaa airport on April 13, 2015
Conflict
Doctors Without Borders pleads: ‘Please allow the humanitarian actors to do their work’ in Yemen
A girl and her brother shelter in a cave during an air raid in the Nuba mountains of Sudan in 2012.
Conflict
Doctors become targets in Sudan’s forgotten wars
MSF staff working in Ramtha Hospital (Jordan, near the Syrian border), where war wounded patients from Syria are being treated. MSF medical staff is doing rounds in the wards. The girl photographed lost one leg due to artillery injury.
Conflict
At a refugee hospital in Jordan, kids deal with war, resilience and friendship
Nurse Deborah Wilson has recently returned from Liberia, where she worked with Doctors Without Borders to treat Ebola patients.
Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, an MSF Mental Health Manager from Norway, poses with six-year-old Ebola survivor Patrick.
Health
Ebola forges a bond between a young boy and the psychologist who helped him
A health worker, wearing head-to-toe protective gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola at a treatment center for infected persons at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Health
Why isn’t the rest of the world helping fight the Ebola outbreak?
Nurse Monia Sayah of Doctors Without Borders explains to a hospital medical team in Guéckédou, Guinea, how the Ebola virus is transmitted.
Health
The story of one Guinean man who survived Ebola
Earthquake in Pakistan
Environment
Pakistan government asks separatist militant groups to stop fighting so they can get help to survivors of earthquake