CRASH - Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières

In the world today entire populations are at immediate risk of death from either famine, war, epidemics or displacement. The people of Southern Sudan, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Mozambique, Peru, Sri Lanka, Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the Tuaregs, the Kurds and Burma's Moslems are those who face the most serious threats but they receive inadequate aid and attention from the international community - if they are not simply forgotten altogether.

This book sheds new light on the crises of the "Third World", always doomed either to oblivion or sensational covergae. It gives a concise glimpse of today's most serious crises to emphasize - beyonf statistics and strategic considerations - the human element.

The world's largest private organization for emergency mediacl aid, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides relief to all populations in danger without discriminitaion. Since it was founded in 1971, MSF has freely exercised what it calls it's "duty to testify", the right to speak out against major violations of humanitarian principles wherever they are committed.