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The Dr. Joanne Liu Interview, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières

Dr. Joanne Liu is the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), otherwise known as Doctors without Borders. She is a Canadian Pediatrician by training and has been with MSF for almost her entire career. She became the international head of MSF...

Bangladesh Wants to Deport Rohingya to a Remote and Uninhabitable Island

Bangladesh is forging ahead with a controversial plan to settle hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar on an isolated, undeveloped, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. According to the latest estimates from U.N. officials, 313,000 Rohingya have poured across the...

Video: This is what the Journey of 123,000 Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Looks Like

The Rohingya are a long discriminated against minority community that live primarily in Myanmar. They are religiously Muslim and an ethnic minority that has faced marginalization by the government and population of Myanmar. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of...

A Small Cyclone Just Caused Major Damage in South Asia. (Yet Another Reason Trump Should Stick With the Paris Agreement)

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar are facing a major clean up after Cyclone Mora hit the area earlier this week. Overall, government officials estimate that 17,500 houses were destroyed in Bangladesh and search operations continue for dozens of missing people, this...