Announced by…
Medecins Sans Frontieres/
Doctors Without Borders
At Any Price?
Negotiating Access to Crisis Zones
Thursday, Feb 9th in NYC
7pm
Tishman Auditorium
66 W 12th Street
New York, NY
Medical humanitarian organizations and human rights groups often operate in the same crisis zones but have different aims and approaches to negotiating access.
Join panelists from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (SIPA) for a discussion of the dilemmas faced by both humanitarian and human rights organizations trying to work in crisis zones. How different are the two approaches? Are they compatible on the ground? How are decisions made about establishing projects? And what compromises are acceptable when negotiating access to populations in immediate danger?
Moderator:
David Rohde, Foreign Affairs Columnist, Reuters and The Atlantic Monthly
Panelists:
Sophie Delaunay, Executive Director, MSF-USA
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Dirk Salomons, Director, Program for Humanitarian Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University
Fabrice Weissman, Coordinator and Research Director, MSF Center for Reflection on Humanitarian Knowledge and Action (CRASH)
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) currently operates emergency medical programs in nearly 70 countries, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Myanmar, and other areas in crisis.
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