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Humanitarian action and reconstruction

Relief, recovery and rebuilding.

A smallpox vaccination kit with vaccine vial and bifurcated needle.Public-health milestone

The eradication of smallpox

Eliminating a human infectious disease through an international public-health campaign.

An illustrative photograph of oral rehydration solution.Public-health milestone

The spread of oral rehydration therapy

Making lifesaving rehydration more accessible during diarrhoeal illness.

Portrait of Henry Dunant, whose humanitarian campaign helped lead to the convention.Humanitarian history

The first Geneva Convention

Establishing treaty protections for wounded soldiers and medical assistance.

An Economic Cooperation Administration poster promoting the Marshall Plan in Europe.Humanitarian history

The Marshall Plan

Supporting European economic reconstruction through a major aid programme.

Children watching a transport aircraft approach Tempelhof during the Berlin Airlift.Humanitarian history

The Berlin Airlift

Supplying West Berlin by air during a Soviet blockade of surface routes.

A makeshift relief airfield at Calabar, Nigeria, in the late 1960s; part of the wider humanitarian response.Famine

The Biafran famine and relief airlifts

Confronting mass starvation through emergency relief during the Nigerian Civil War.

A French proof of the Nansen passport, the travel document introduced for stateless refugees.Refugee protection initiative

Nansen passports for refugees

Creating an internationally recognised travel document for people without national passports.

A later MSF image of maternal and child healthcare; not a photograph of the 1971 founding.Medical humanitarian initiative

The founding of Médecins Sans Frontières

Building an emergency medical organisation committed to independence and speaking about suffering it witnesses.