FRANCAISMédecins du Monde - History
2000-2009
-September 2000, Lebanon: in the Southern Region, MDM starts a programme of psychological assistance for former Khiam prisoners jointly with a local association, Amal.
-June 2001, Liberia, Pakistan: in Monrovia, MDM closes a mission it opened in 1995 and which worked on its own funds since 1999, for lack of international financial backers. Some programmes are left to a local partner, LUDA (Lorplay United Development Association), created in 1997 in the Nimba county. In the same way, in Pakistan, to the South-East of Punjab, MDM starts withdrawing and supporting an NGO created in 2000, MCWAK (Maternity and Child Welfare Association of Khanpur).
-April 2002, China: with the approval of sanitary authorities, MDM settles in a region of yak breeders, the Gande County in the Golok Disctrict, Qinghai Province, North-East of the Tibetan Plateau.
-From May 2002, Palestine/Israel: jointly with the FIDH (Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'Homme), MDM leads an investigation in Naplouse and denounces the war crimes committed by the Israeli military during its “Defensive Wall” Operation in occupied territories. In May 2004, another investigation is conducted with the FIDH about the Operation Rainbow of the Israeli military in Rafah, South of the Gaza strip.
-May 2004, France: following Claude Moncorgé, Françoise Jeanson is elected as president of MDM and becomes the first woman to chair the organisation.
-2005, Indonesia: MDM helps the victims of the tsunami and uses helicopters of the French Army to bring relief to villagers isolated by the tidal wave.
