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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) opened on Wednesday, February 25, at the Ramón Alonso Luzy Cartagena Cultural Center, the exhibition 40 Years of Independent Humanitarian Action, a photographic exhibition that traces the history of the organization and the principles that have guided their work over the past decades.
MSF was born in 1971 at the hands of a group of doctors and journalists, frustrated about because the mandate of the organization they worked prevented them testify about the genocide of the Ibo in Biafra (Nigeria, 1968), others by the inefficiency with who attended the victims of the floods in 1970 in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
Both advocated an independent medical action of political or economic interests him to come where victims of emergencies populations required it to provide assistance and testimony.
Today, MSF is a leading independent humanitarian organizations in the world, and unfortunately has little to celebrate, as the crises that currently responds very reminiscent of the first emergencies in which the organization intervened 40 years.
The exhibition will be shown to the media through a press screening on Wednesday, at 12:30, with the assistance of Councillor for Social Care, Antonio Calderon, and MSF delegate for the Region of Murcia, Mila Font.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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