Helping Haiti: Relief through Music
The human tragedy in Haiti is overwhelming, and it's hard to know what we can do from hundreds or thousands of miles away. Here's one thing…January 20 through 25, New York's City Winery (155 Varick...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders and Humanitarian Negotiations
Michael Neuman explores the practical realities of conducting humanitarian negotiations in complex situations. He’s the editor of Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, published on...
View ArticleConspiracy Theories; Voyage in the South Pacific; Jane Gardam's Last Friends;...
We’ll start today’s show with a history of conspiracy theories from colonial America to the current War on Terror. J. Maarten Troost describes leaving rehab and gradually reawakening to life as he...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders Leaves Somalia
Humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders announced earlier this month that it will withdraw from operations in Somalia. And last week, it revealed that medical centers were flooded with patients...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders President: Ebola Could Take Months to Contain
In West Africa, the Ebola epidemic has killed at least 1,145 people and sickened hundreds more, and the disease continues to spread. There are possibly hundreds of other carriers of the disease, but...
View ArticleCuomo Plans to Offer More Incentives in Ebola Fight
Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that he will provide financial incentives to medical workers fighting Ebola in West African countries, which he called “ground zero” of the epidemic.“I think we can...
View ArticleAwarding The Future of Medical Research
We speak with two of the 2015 Lasker prize winners! Evelyn M. Witkin won this year’s Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for her work in unraveling how cells detect and respond to DNA damage....
View ArticleU.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital Draws Damning Accusations
Glenn Greenwald, co-founding editor of The Intercept, discusses the U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. U.S. military officials deemed the airstrike an...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders (Or Bias); Biden Decides; Making Choices on a Screen
Dr. Deane Marchbein, the president of Doctors Without Borders USA describes what it’s like to treat wounded soldiers on both sides of a conflict. Plus: Terry Gilliam, one of the founding members of...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders (Or Bias) In a Conflict Zone
Deane Marchbein, president of MSF-USA (Doctors Without Borders), discusses what it's like to treat soldiers on both sides of a war, in the wake of a U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders'...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: The History of Lafayette; Doctors Without Borders;...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.The History of Lafayette (First) | Doctors Without Borders (Starts at 14:19) | Terry Gilliam (Starts at 30:20)If you don't...
View ArticleJudd Apatow; Richard Dawkins; Doctors Without Borders in War Zones
NPR and ABC news analyst Cokie Roberts talks about the women of Washington, from the Civil War era up to Hillary Clinton. Plus: evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins discusses religion and science;...
View ArticleAt the Heart of Conflict: Doctors Without Borders Director on a Difficult Year
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Medecins sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders—winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize—is continually in the middle of some of this...
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‘I have never seen such destruction’ as in Yemen: aid worker
Boys play near houses damaged during the conflict in Yemen’s northwestern city of Saada on Dec. 1, 2015. Photo by Naif Rahma/ReutersFighting in Yemen after rebels overthrew the government in early 2015...
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In Syria, airstrikes on hospitals and school kill dozens
People gather near what is said to be a hospital damaged by missile attacks in Azaz, northwestern Syria, on Feb. 15 in this still image taken from a video on a social media website. Image credit:...
View ArticleIs the Ceasefire in Syria Just a Moral Victory?
Amid attacks on a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital and fierce fighting on the ground throughout Syria, Slate's War Stories columnist Fred Kaplan explains why a "cessation of hostilities" agreement,...
View ArticleMSF's Joanne Liu Still Believes War Has Rules
Joanne Liu is the the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), a non-governmental organization that administers humanitarian medical aid and assistance to war- and...
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More than 12 punished for mistaken Afghan hospital attack
Candles are pictured outside the Medecins Sans Frontieres headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 7, 2015, after a deadly air strike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. Photo by Denis...
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Airstrike destroys hospital in Syria as cease-fire falters
A man carries a child from the rubble caused by an airstrike in the rebel-held area of Old Aleppo, Syria on April 28. Photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/ReutersAirstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo...
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Hospitals and doctors under attack in Aleppo ‘difficult to replace’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: We return to the bombing of the hospital in the Syrian town of Aleppo. According to reports, 27 people were killed.With me now is Pablo Marco, Middle...
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News Wrap: U.S. soldiers disciplined for accidental Afghan hospital bombing
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening. I’m Judy Woodruff.HARI SREENIVASAN: And I’m Hari Sreenivasan.JUDY WOODRUFF: On the “NewsHour” tonight: In Syria’s rebel-held city of...
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After attack on Aleppo hospital, Syria cease-fire ‘alive, but barely’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Death rained down on Syria’s largest city today. At least 60 people were killed, nearly half of them at a hospital. It was the starkest evidence yet...
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News Wrap: Hospital bombed in government-controlled area of Aleppo
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening. I’m Judy Woodruff.HARI SREENIVASAN: And I’m Hari Sreenivasan.JUDY WOODRUFF: On the “NewsHour” tonight: The spotlight’s on Indiana. Hoosiers...
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Did Afghan troops manipulate the U.S. into bombing Doctors Without Borders...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In October 2015 an American AC-130 gunship pummeled the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, hitting what the crew believed to be...
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Aboard a Mediterranean rescue ship, migrants share horror stories from Libya
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: The International Organization for Migration reported today that almost 3,000 migrants and refugees have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean...
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For child migrants, the desperate journey to freedom is especially dangerous
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But, first: Latest figures from Save the Children show that nearly 13,000 children have been rescued so far this year while trying to cross the...
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When a migrant’s desperate journey becomes a deadly journey
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Finally tonight, our Desperate Journey series continues.They died horrible deaths. The identities of all but one of them are unknown. And 21 of the 22...
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Repeatedly targeted by airstrikes, Syrian doctors feel abandoned
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: But, first: The years-long fight to control Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, grinds on, with civilians stuck between rebel and government forces.Last week,...
View ArticleWith U.S. Help, Saudi Airstrikes Lead to Civilian Carnage in Yemen
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.The constant sound of airstrikes have become an all too familiar soundtrack for the people of Yemen, who have endured countless Saudi-led...
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Syrian refugees find mental and physical rehabilitation in Jordan
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: The Syrian conflict is in its fifth year, making Jordan home to more than 1.3 million Syrian refugees, many struggling with trauma and the...
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What’s next for U.S. involvement in Syria?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But first: The French government today announced a renewed push for a cease-fire in Syria, after a previous deal failed. The two architects of that...
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News Wrap: Doctors Without Borders appeals for access to rebel-held parts of...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In the day’s other news: The desperation of Aleppo, Syria, prompted Doctors Without Borders to appeal for access, amid a Russian-Syrian assault on...
View ArticleSarah Stillman on Simulating the Refugee Experience
In the interactive exhibit “Forced From Home”, visitors step into the role of refugees. Participants are assigned a home country from which they’re fleeing, and are made to choose five objects to bring...
View ArticleYemen's Public Health Struggles Mount as Civil War Continues
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. In Yemen, the civil war between the government and the Houthi rebels has killed at least 5,000 civilians so far, with thousands more dead from...
View ArticleAcross the Desert and the Sea
African migrants fleeing persecution or seeking opportunity often end up in Libya, where they are tortured and trafficked. Many try to escape to Europe, only to be intercepted at sea and returned to...
View ArticleRohingya Brace for Monsoon Season in Refugee Camps
Since August 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled military violence in their home country of Myanmar and sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. A majority of the Rohingya refugees left...
View ArticleA Devastating Earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the United States, discusses the medical response to the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria.
View ArticleAfter Biden’s Deal: Getting Medical Aid To Gazans
In the wake of the Hamas attacks, Israel has cut off the water, fuel and electricity that it normally supplies to Gaza.On Today's Show:Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without...
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