Prev. Humanitarian Affairs Advisor @MSF, @MSF_UREPH & @MSF_access. Worked in South Sudan & Sierra Leone. All started with @FoMSFUK_Ireland. As per, views mine.
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⚡TODAY governments 🌍🌏🌎 meet at @WTO to discuss a proposal that would speed up access to #COVID19 medical tools for everyone.
Ask your country to be on the right side of history and support #NoCovidMonopolies!
Help us keep up the pressure! 👇
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Latest analysis from one of @MSF’s reflection groups, by @SeanHealyMSF @urvashi_aneja @PRHHO @Humanicontraria, dispelling the myth of MSF as non-collaborative, ‘go it alone’
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Great to see the question of collaboration framed in relation to coloniality, saviourism, paternalism. Certainly resonate in relation to MSF’s arrogant approach. Does this mean collaboration is always one element in the pursuit of ethical, respectful, equal and right?
What about when the state is the primary aggressor? Acts of resistance on the margins, as hooks says. How does collaboration with govt compromise ‘legitimacy’ (however defined...)? More needed on this for #Rakhine, which appears downplayed in favour of a profile on our HIV work
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"96% of the @pfizer vaccines have been booked out by rich countries, leaving the poorest 70 countries in the world with only 1 out of 10 of their people vaccinated next year," says @Winnie_Byanyima in this interview with @BBCNews.
We need a #PeoplesVaccine, not a profit vaccine.
Superb scholarship on proximity and the performance of humanitarianism in DRC by @JamesMyfanwy, drawing from in-depth work on @MSF. manchesteropenhive.com/view/… cc: @apoelhekke @H_Pagano @mikafromparis
One for you too @AmyNeilson12, @Turtle1doc given recent discussions on how "local" staff are written out of conversations related to risk and security management in @MSF's public discourse...
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COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: documenting and sharing context-specific programmatic experiences dlvr.it/Rm73vl
Glad to be able to join! cc @CLee_EL. @HSlim_Oxford @MHuntMcGill @LisaSchwartz224 - may be of interest to your students
We are excited to announce our virtual conference, 'Ethics in Humanitarian Aid' on 21st Nov!!
Our confirmed speakers include: @greenparakeet1, @james_MSF and @rozscourse. More info will be released over the next few days!!
Get earlybird tickets NOW: Bit.ly/3n156e9
Absolute pleasure to speak with @The_HealthMint, @amahusein, @DrMercyKorir on triage and the complexities of difficult decision making in the face of scarce resources. So much more to be said on this important topic! youtube.com/watch?v=aYTuZQYH… #HCBerlin
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"Triage ist ein Prozess der Verhandlung mit Kolleg*innen, Familienmitgliedern, der Patient*in selbst, aber auch ein Prozess des Widerstandes - als Arzt/Ärztin kann es sehr schwierig sein, nicht so viel wie möglich für eine einzelne Person zu tun." @james_MSF beim #HCBerlin
ALT Rahmawati Husein (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Muhammadiya Disaster Management Center), Fredrick Oluga (Leiter des Health Services Executive Office of the President Nairobi Metropolitan Services), James Smith, Notfallarzt beim NHS und Mercy Korir (Ressortleiterin Health & Science bei The Standard Group) diskutieren zum Thema „Schwere Entscheidungen: Triage-Situationen während der Pandemie“ beim Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2020
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On of the takeaways of the pandemic for @james_msf: "We really need to use this opportunity to reorientate our domestic policy making towards essential services like healthcare and education." #hcberlin
Playing catch up on yesterday's @HumConBerlin sessions. Discussion between @arbiebaguios @anitakatt @HebaJournalist and @Lili_Assaba on Decolonising Humanitarian Action now online: youtube.com/watch?v=w_uiGMm5… #HCBerlin
Reflecting on how the decolonisation conversation has developed, @HebaJournalist suggests "We're well past the narrative around "is colonialism at play"". Optimistic too, but internal conversations still suggest a lot of resistance to this reality #HCBerlin
.@Lili_Assaba - there cannot be "five steps to decolonise your institution". Decolonisation is complex, messy, involves friction. No neat or clean ways to decolonise institutions and practices that have violent and highly problematic pasts and presents #HCBerlin
"Liberation, solidarity ... those words aren't used in humanitarian discourse" - @Tammamo. While we so often hear we're standing "in solidarity with" one community or another, how much is that true to the political meaning of solidarity? cc @sridhartweet #HCBerlin
"The paternalism and lack of focus on community was doing more damage than good" @lksriv reflects on her early-career NGO experience. Much of this *still* rings true. More in her piece, Decolonising Aid Will Take More Than Listening medium.com/@lksriv/decoloniz… #HCBerlin
Great to see the effort taken to ensure the @HumConBerlin continues online this year, and grateful for the opportunity to speak later this week. Opening plenary with @Tammamo @lksriv starting soon, and still plenty of time to register: hopin.to/events/humanitarian… #HCBerlin