The Medecins sans Frontieres of Greece, operate programmes providing primary health care to immigrants, refugees, and repatriated emigrants and trying to satisfy their social or legal demands.

The gravity of sexual and gender based violence in Darfur was highlighted in an important and thorough report released on 8 March by the non governmental organization Médicins Sans Frontières.

In that context, it may be apt to recall Rabelais's warning that Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme science without conscience is nothing but the ruin of the soul.

She said that a MONUC soldier whom she had met at a camp behind the Médecins sans frontières hospital had given her food during their first four meetings but did not have sex with her.

The African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights in the face of the Pluralist Democracy , La voix des Sans Voix. Le Trimestriel des droits de l'Homme, avril juin 1991, N 1, pp. 101 112, Paris.

And so I start thinking Max Miedinger and all those Swiss designers together, trying to outdo Akzidenz Grotesk, and come up with a new sans serif typeface and the movie starts playing in my head already.

We therefore reached an agreement in March of this year with Médecins sans Frontières Belgium and the World Food Programme to jointly assist people living with HIV AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including people receiving antiretroviral treatment.

In the health and education sectors, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins sans frontières continued to provide medicines, testing kits and equipment to Abkhaz hospitals, free health services and a tuberculosis treatment programme.

UNICEF worked with many partners in the development of technical standards and to ensure the quality of supplies, including with WHO on pharmaceutical and vaccine issues, and with UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre and Médicins sans Frontières on various procurement issues.

As Jean Hervé Bradol, who was president of Médecins sans Frontières at the time and led its African teams, put it It was not a time for a drug trial at all. They were panicking in the hospital, overrun by cases on the verge of dying.

Of particular concern is the filing of arbitrary and unsubstantiated charges against humanitarian workers, as well as arbitrary arrests and detentions, such as the recent brief detention of two officials of Médecins Sans Frontières Holland for reasons related to their organization's publication of a report on the incidence of rape in Darfur.

Representatives of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), which has more than 3,000 staff members combating Ebola in the most affected countries, strongly opposed giving placebos to anyone at high risk of contracting the disease. But Ballou appears to have persuaded many of the participants at the meeting that his proposal will save more lives in the long run.

A century and a half ago, the Red Cross established the norm that health care could and should be provided even in conflict zones. This principle was carried forward by groups like Médicins sans Frontières, whose doctors have risked their lives for the last four decades to deliver medical care to the world s most dangerous places.

Several NGOs in status with the Economic and Social Council were commended, including the Friends Society in Social Service, the Nour Foundation, the All India Women's Education Fund Association, the All India Movement for SEVA and Medecins sans Frontières, who mobilized people, equipment and funding to assist in the South Asian tsunami relief efforts in 2005.

International NGOs and technical networks such as Medecins Sans Frontières, the Micronutrient Initiative, the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD), the IDD Network, Helen Keller International, Oxfam, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, the International Baby Food Action Network, CARE and Plan International are involved alongside UNICEF in global advocacy, resource mobilization and country level action, including emergency response.

We've been here before, paralyzed by fear, paralyzed into inaction, when some probably one of you in this room jumped into the breach and created an organization like Physicians for Social Responsibility, which fought against the nuclear threat, Medicins Sans Frontieres, that renewed our commitment to disaster relief, Mohamed ElBaradei, and the tremendous hope and optimism that he brought all of us, and our own Muhammad Yunus.

We do not turn to the private sector to control the spread of a disease like Ebola. Rather, we turn to institutions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Médecins Sans Frontières, the remarkable group of doctors and nurses who risk their lives to save those of others in poor countries around the world.

PARIS According to two pro government newspapers in Turkey, Star and Yeni Akit, as well as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself, those who denounce the state of press freedom in Turkey are terrorists. That is the term that they were using last week to denounce the New York based Committee to Protect Journalists and the Paris based Reporters Sans Frontières, both of which have issued reports saying that Turkey has imprisoned even more journalists than Iran and China.

But there is also a risk that assistance for tsunami victims is diverting aid from disasters that are of a more chronic character or that are less amenable to sensational media coverage. In announcing that it would stop accepting donations for the victims of the tsunami after collecting 40 million for that purpose, Médecins Sans Frontières noted its urgent need for funds for such man made catastrophes as Darfur in Sudan and for the Democratic Republic of Congo.