Hosted by Médecins Sans Frontières · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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The MSF “Speaking Out” podcasts are adapted from the original Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Speaking Out Case Studies (SOCS). Like the case studies, the podcast examines the challenges and dilemmas surrounding speaking out. Each series offers an in-depth look into humanitarian dilemmas in a specific crisis through the narration of extracts from MSF documents and press archives to help establish the facts. Interviews with the main MSF protagonists at the time of the events also provide insight into, and personal analysis of, the positions adopted. *** The MSF Speaking Out Case Studies (SOCS) is a series of case studies that openly examines and analyses MSF’s actions and decision-making processes during humanitarian emergencies that have led it to speak out or not. The SOCS project assists all MSF members, as well as a growing external audience, in understanding how speaking out articulates with humanitarian interventions. <
Médecins Sans Frontières hosts Speaking Out, a history show with 29 episodes published.
Episode 1: Bangladesh in the 1990s In 1991–1992, Myanmar’s military repression forces over 250,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh, settling in refugee camps. In the camps near Cox’s Bazar, MSF observes dire living condit
Episode 2: Years of growth and silence In Myanmar an increasingly authoritarian regime is taking shape making access to returning refugees and the lives of the Rohingya who’ve remained in Rakhine State increasingly diffi
Episode 3: A slow opening at MSF In 2006, following MSF’s internal reorganisation, MSF Operational Centre Amsterdam (OCA) refocuses advocacy on the Rohingy marking a shift in its approach to testimony. To bypass Myanmar’
Episode 4: Myanmar opens up In 2008, Cyclone Nargis devastates Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, killing over 130,000 people. The crisis opens a humanitarian space. From 2009 onwards, MSF intensifies its public advocacy on the
Episode 5: Renewed violence and loss of access to Myanmar In 2012, violence breaks out in Myanmar’s Rakhine State between Buddhists and Rohingya after a Buddhist woman is allegedly killed by Rohingya men. Retaliatory att
Episode 6: Under pressure in Myanmar In January 2014, in Du Chee Yar Tan, Rakhine State, MSF OCA treats wounded Rohingya after a violent attack and issues a public statement. The Myanmar government denies the violence, p
Episode 7: Introspection at MSF Eventually, the Myanmar Government backs out, and limits ban to MSF activities in Rakhine. This still leaves the organisation with a dilemma: speaking out on Rohingya persecution versus pr
Episode 1: The First War in Chechnya The first war of independence of Chechnya with the Russian Federation starts in 1994 and runs for two years during which access was regularly blocked by Russian forces. MSF feeds the
Episode 2: A Far Cry from Peace In 1999, while the country and its people are still struggling to recover, the Russian authorities start bombing Chechnya again. The Russian Federation President, Boris Yeltsin talks publi
Episode 3: Advocacy without access With hostilities in Chechnya flaring up again in what the Russian Federation terms as “anti-terrorist operations”, MSF leaders decide to take advantage of the ceremony of the reception
Episode 4: A cautious re-entry to Chechnya Throughout the year 2000, MSF seizes every opportunity to raise the alarm on the Chechen’s fate with governments and institutions around the world, but to little concrete effect
Episode 5: All on the same page MSF’s operations in Chechnya are slowly starting back up again after 3 years of being run remotely. Although the bombing stops, general insecurity is pervasive and restarting these program
Episode 6: 'Kidnapped by mistake' Kidnappings are becoming more commonplace in Chechnya and closer to home for MSF as various staff members are held for questioning. At the start of 2001, a key member of the team in the
Episode 7: Anti-terrorist rhetoric MSF’s operations have been closed down in Chechnya in response to the MSF Coordinator’s kidnapping. After his release, three weeks later, MSF tries to restart its operations in Chechnya
Episode 8: A Deliberate Strategy of Non-Assistance The situation in the North Caucasus is becoming increasingly violent. The Russian federal authorities are forcing Chechen refugees to return to Chechnya, where they reig
Episode 9: Speaking out in a time of kidnapping In August 2002, the threat to MSF becomes a reality and another Coordinator, a Dutch national for the MSF Swiss section, is kidnapped in Dagestan. The organisation is once
Episode 1: Resumption of war in eastern Zaire In 1996, MSF attempts to alert the international community about the resurgence of conflict in eastern Zaire, as witnessed by teams on the ground. The perpetrators of the Rwa
Episode 2: Information war over refugee numbers As the instability of the region increases, MSF and other humanitarian organisations are eventually forced out of eastern Zaire entirely. MSF suspects that thousands of ref
Episode 3: Under fire in the press In November 1996, the offensive led by the ADFL and Rwandan forces empties the camps in eastern Zaire of their population. Some refugees were repatriated to Rwanda and others fled into
Episode 4: Humanitarians used as bait Finally allowed into South Kivu, a province in eastern Zaire, the MSF teams discover that refugees are being massacred by the ADFL and its allies, particularly in the Massisi and the
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