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MdM voices its positions and recommendations through press releases that you can find in this section. We also can sign joint statements (other press releases). You can also read the testimonies from the field or from MdM staff.
Burried in Life
To understand the extent of the trauma caused by house demolitions, you should start by acknowledging the love and connection of the people for their land and home, for the hills and valleys where they grew up, for the land they identified with roots of their families and culture, the history of their parents and […]
Bedwetting stories
Children and youth are amongst the most vulnerable populations in war crisis. At a critical age development, they process and incorporate violence and trauma in different ways. Many memories from the Syrian civil war still haunt them wherever they go…This reminds us that the effect of war reverberates long after the bullets and bombs are […]
Happy birthday Firas… …or the tale of an everyday childhood in Gaza
Happy birthday Firas! You’re one year old today. With your big, jet-black eyes and your chubby baby cheeks, you’re babbling your first words and, as you hold onto the edge of the table, you manage to pull yourself up and stand all on your own. You’re so pleased with yourself! Firas, you’re just like any […]
The little girl behind the window
Testimony from the field from our social worker Reem Al-Nakshabandi in Zaatari camp, Jordan Being a social worker in Zaatari camp in Jordan, is not simply a job you wake up to every day. For me, it is the art of being close to the people, the art of building trust in order […]
Yemen: MdM assists victims
As the fighting intensifies, particularly in South Yemen, Doctors of the World – Médecins du Monde (MdM) has decided to support teams in Aden governorate with drugs and surgical supplies to provide civilians—the first victims of the conflict—with a better access to healthcare. MdM worked in Yemen between 2004 and 2012, notably providing healthcare to […]
“Charting a new course: overcoming the stalemate in Gaza” – Briefing Paper –
Six months after the Cairo International Conference on Palestine and Reconstructing Gaza following massive destruction caused by the conflict in summer 2014, AIDA[1], the Association of International Development Agencies, is publishing its report “Charting a New Course: Overcoming the Stalemate in Gaza” in which it puts forward concrete recommendations to speed up reconstruction. The […]
CHARTING A NEW COURSE – Overcoming the stalemate in Gaza
In 2014, after unprecedented destruction and suffering in Gaza, international donors pledged $3.5bn and a change in approach. Six months later, reconstruction and recovery have barely begun, there has been no accountability for violations of international law, and Gaza remains cut off from the West Bank. This paper outlines an achievable course of action to […]
World not delivering on Gaza reconstruction promises, new report warns
The international community must urgently change its approach to Gaza and deliver on promises of reconstruction, 46 agencies said today in a new report on the lack of progress since last year’s conflict. Six months since donors pledged $3.5 billion towards Gaza’s recovery, many people are worse off and not a single one of the […]
SYRIA: 4 years of horror met with indifference
Four years after the start of the conflict, chaos is overwhelming Syria and the human toll is horrifying: more than 200,000 dead, half of them civilians, more than 1.5 million wounded and suffering serious and permanent after-effects, 11 million refugees and displaced people and more than 12 million Syrians – equivalent to half the total […]
Report: – Failing Syria –
“The unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2139 (UNSCR 2139) at the end of February 2014 brought with it much needed hope for people in Syria and across the Middle East. In the resolution, the UN Security Council (UNSC) – the body responsible for international peace and security – called for an urgent increase […]
Aid agencies give UN Security Council a ‘fail grade’ on Syria
21 humanitarian and human rights organizations say warring parties and powerful states have failed to implement UNSC resolutions leading to “worst year” of crisis for civilians in Syria. The agencies today released a scathing critique of the UN Security Council powers detailing how they have failed to alleviate the suffering of civilians in Syria amid […]
30 International Aid Agencies: “We must not fail in Gaza.”
Six months have passed since a ceasefire on 26 August 2014 ended over seven weeks of fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip. As UN agencies and international NGOs operating in Gaza, we are alarmed by the limited progress in rebuilding the lives of those affected and tackling the root […]