The MSF Year in Pictures

A look at the world in 2017 through the lens of Médecins Sans Frontières

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March 2017 - Karon, 31, sits with his wife and their twin girls in a refugee shelter on the Greek island of Lesvos. The family arrived in August 2016 but have since been blocked by Greek authorities from leaving the island to continue their journey to the mainland. "What I have seen in Iraq, I do not want my children to see it again. This is why we left our country, where everything is paralysed, everything stopped, there is no life. My true dream is that my children will live in a beautiful country, without war, without bloodshed, without any of this. This is the only thing I wish for." Photograph: Giuseppe La Rosa/MSF

March 2017- Men detained in Janzour detention centre, on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya. Detainees spend days and months in Libyan detention centres, without any idea when they will be released. Libya is a lawless state fragmented by conflicts, and both a destination and a place of transit for hundreds of thousands of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. In migrant detention centres, they face arbitrary detention for prolonged periods of time in unsanitary and inhumane conditions. There is no way to challenge the lawfulness of their detention, virtually no access to the outside world, habitual ill-treatment, and a lack of access to medical care. Photograph: Guillaume Binet/ Myop/MSF

July 2017 - Toudjani Boulama, 18, was treated by MSF for the wound he received to his face after he was shot by a member of Boko Haram in Cameroon. Toudjani and some 45,000 other refugees currently live in a camp for internally displaced people in Ngala, Borno state, Nigeria. Many people have fled there from neighbouring Cameroon due to the ongoing violence from Boko Haram and military operations in the area. Photograph: Sylvain Cherkaoui/ MSF

September 2017 - A Rohingya woman comforts her two sons in their tent in the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The family recently fled Myanmar joining hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled across the border during episodes of violence in previous years, moving into makeshift settlements without adequate access to shelter, food, clean water or proper sanitation. Photograph: Antonio Faccilongo/ MSF

September 2017 - Cinthya, 18, receives a hug from an MSF nurse at the Choloma clinic for medical and mental healthcare, after suffering domestic violence. She is two months' pregnant. MSF is supporting a mother and child clinic in Choloma, a rapidly expanding industrial area now the third most populous city in Honduras and notorious for its high level of violence. Photograph: Christina Simons/ MSF

Tue Jan 09 2018 - 19:13

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