Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Website: http://www.msf.org/
Category: Humanitarian
Year of Foundation: 1971
Location of Foundation: Paris, France
Location of Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Brief Description: Médecins Sans Frontières describe themselves as 'an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries' (source: www.msf.org; accessed 29 April 2010).
Founding Rationales:
According to the 'Appeal to Doctors' issued in Tonus Journal 493 in December 1971, MSF was set up by 'volunteers determined to break down all barriers and borders that still stand between those whose vocation is to save and to heal and the victims of human barbarity or natural disasters, tsunamis, earthquakes and other catastrophes that afflict countries that are often least able to cope.'
Source: www.medecinssansfrontieres.com (accessed 29 April 2010).
Evolution of Membership:
Sources: EAIO; YIO; IGY