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MSF Say 75 Hospitals Bombed in 2015, Leave Humanitarian Summit
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/36803-msf-say-75-hospitals-bombed-in-2015-leave-humanitarian-summit"As shocking violations of international humanitarian law and refugee rights continue on a daily basis ... participants will be pressed to a consensus on nonspecific, good intentions to 'uphold norms' and 'end needs'," Sandrine Tiller, an advisor for the organization said that U.N. organizers of the summit had "let states off the hook" by asking only that they make non-binding commitments, putting them on the same level as less powerful non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies.
"The summit has become a fig-leaf of good intentions, allowing these systematic violations, by states above all, to be ignored," the MSF explained.
The announcement comes after Doctors Without Borders on Tuesday slammed five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for ties to attacks on hospitals in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.
The attack on the Syrian hospital killed at least 50 people according to a statement by the organization. They also claim that 75 hospitals managed or supported by Doctors Without Borders were bombed in 2015. .
