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Essay On Doctors Without Borders

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Human rights violations occur all around the world on a daily basis. Despite the Universal declaration of human rights (UDHR) to safeguard the rights of all human beings, some states are still dragging their feet to implement the basic rights their citizens are entitled to. So, to advocate for people whose rights have been denied, many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have taken upon themselves to work and promote social and political change. These NGOs play an important part in improving communities, and advocating for citizen participation. In that sense, Doctors without borders, mostly known as Medecins sans Fontieres (MSF), has gained a lot of praise for its work for helping people in need, and acting as an instrument of reducing poverty worldwide.

Doctors Without Borders is a medical humanitarian organization founded in 1971 by a group of French doctors and journalists who wanted to expand access to health care all around the world. Their sole aim was to deliver medical help regardless of race, religion or political affiliations.
Doctors Without Borders has been active in many African countries for years. In some cases, it has even been the only provider of health care in some areas of the continent. When the Ebola virus began to spread in some parts of Africa, …show more content…

Not only do they raise awareness for a global response, but their involvement in the medical field has helped civilians find medical care, and save many lives in areas where there is no access to hospital whatsoever. A CNN article, showed how dedicated they were to people in medical attention: “days of heavy airstrikes have left Syria's rebel-held eastern Aleppo without a single hospital operating at full capacity” (Smith-Spark, Kourdi & Khadder, 2016, para. 1). Despite, any infrastructure left standing during the war, they still stayed to avoid many more deaths by trying to help the

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