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I will address the health impact of rights violations in conflict situations and the link between health and human rights. I will do this using Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) experience in Rwanda as a starting point, and I hope to draw generic principles from this case in order to look at the nature and mechanisms of the humanitarian imperative in today's global context, and what this could mean for further efforts to define humanitarianism in the future. As many will know, MSF is an international humanitarian organization that provides medical aid without discrimination to populations in crisis.' We rely on volunteer professionals and are independent of all states and institutions, as well as of all political, economic, or religious affiliations. The organization grew out of the frustration of a group of French doctors working in Biafra during the crisis of 1971. They were outraged that governments and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) were powerless to stop the forced starvation and displacement of millions of people, because such an effort would contravene existing international statutes and bodies of law. This initial contempt for established legal systems has spawned a global organization which, at any one time, has over 2,000 volunteers working with over 14,000 nationals in 70 countries today. Like the International Red Cross and a legion of other NGOs, MSF

Health Impact of Rights Violations in Conf1ict Zones and the Humanitarian Imperative: Rwanda-A Case Study