This Black African woman was gang raped. She says 'I am trying to forget about it'
@MSF paid the photographer donor money to put a net on her face and shoot her.
We are told this is 'sensitive' and 'dignified'.
Photo can now be sold as stock.
#msfexploits
@MSF paid the photographer donor money to put a net on her face and shoot her.
We are told this is 'sensitive' and 'dignified'.
Photo can now be sold as stock.
#msfexploits
TW (trauma) It was the image which prompted me to look at @MSF relationship with @MagnumPhotos which consists imho of exploiting their patients and telling the world how heroic each other are.
60 days later the archive is all still up. For sale. Stock thumbs grabbed today.
60 days later the archive is all still up. For sale. Stock thumbs grabbed today.
Many people who have worked for MSF told me the org was incapable of doing the right thing. That MSF is cynically run and structurally racist.
Typical white guy. I did not want to believe them.
But look at the images. For sale today. Really look.
#msfexploits
Typical white guy. I did not want to believe them.
But look at the images. For sale today. Really look.
#msfexploits
The idea that the people who have facilitated the exploitation of some of the worlds most vulnerable people can be trusted to do the right thing is dangerous.
They cannot.
It's just allowing abusers to cover up their abuse.
They cannot.
It's just allowing abusers to cover up their abuse.
.@MSF cannot even be trusted to make their own statement on this visible. It's hidden on their website and they refuse to share it on their public feeds.
Instead they spent yesterday telling the world 'our actions are guided by medical ethics'.
Instead they spent yesterday telling the world 'our actions are guided by medical ethics'.
https://twitter.com/MSF/status/1540282334544396288
The word 'gaslighting' gets overused.
But here it's entirely appropriate.
The stock images do not lie. MSF taught photographers to exploit patients. To get on with a camera it was likely expected of them.
They abandoned medical ethics.
But here it's entirely appropriate.
The stock images do not lie. MSF taught photographers to exploit patients. To get on with a camera it was likely expected of them.
They abandoned medical ethics.
60 days on @MSF haven't even committed to not working with agencies and photographers who have exploited their patients.
No-one at MSF, apparently, is responsible.
No-one at MSF, apparently, is accountable.
No-one knew anything.
No-one at MSF, apparently, is responsible.
No-one at MSF, apparently, is accountable.
No-one knew anything.
No investigation at all about the chain of command that allowed these images to be taken and continue to be profited from.
Or why MSF partnered with a photo agency embroiled in a child exploitation scandal.
Or why MSF partnered with a photo agency embroiled in a child exploitation scandal.
One of most important functions of @MSF is to campaign for patient rights to access drugs through its @MSF_access campaign.
How does that work when people start to understand MSF are allowing their patients to be exploited?
It doesn't @chris_lockyear.
How does that work when people start to understand MSF are allowing their patients to be exploited?
It doesn't @chris_lockyear.
What happens next?
I believe it's kill or cure time for @MSF
They must not be allowed to cover up the dehumanisation and exploitation of their patients.
It morally bankrupts them and destroys them from the inside.
I believe it's kill or cure time for @MSF
They must not be allowed to cover up the dehumanisation and exploitation of their patients.
It morally bankrupts them and destroys them from the inside.
Good people will leave @MSF. They already have done. Just ask @DecoloniseMsf
They will not stomach being a party to the exploitation of the people they joined the organisation to serve.
Those that allowed this to happen face no consequences. And will stay.
They will not stomach being a party to the exploitation of the people they joined the organisation to serve.
Those that allowed this to happen face no consequences. And will stay.
An independent investigation must be forced on @MSF
The fact that 60 days on from the start of this scandal one has not been announced shows either a failure to grasp the industrial scale of abuse.
Or worse. A willingness to it cover up.
The fact that 60 days on from the start of this scandal one has not been announced shows either a failure to grasp the industrial scale of abuse.
Or worse. A willingness to it cover up.
I believe the international medical community will be woken into collective action to insist on an independent review.
This cannot continue.
Voices like @DrHassaanZahid @amyaneilson @DecoloniseHlth @DecoloniseMsf @MonicaMukerjee @arnabmajumdar_ @anaupatree etc lead the way.
This cannot continue.
Voices like @DrHassaanZahid @amyaneilson @DecoloniseHlth @DecoloniseMsf @MonicaMukerjee @arnabmajumdar_ @anaupatree etc lead the way.
FYI the day @MSF announce a independent review with the terms of that review, who is conducting it, timescales, commitment to publish it and implement than I will delete all of these images.
And the hundreds more I have.
Until then I will try and prick their conscience.
And the hundreds more I have.
Until then I will try and prick their conscience.
@MSF @hmryder FYI and not unrelated to your important work. Please read through the above thread. 👆 (warning very graphic/upsetting images but necessary to understand scale of the exploitation). THANKS.
Linked to this:theguardian.com/global-develop…
Linked to this:theguardian.com/global-develop…
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
No-one with a camera should be allowed in any @MSF space until steps have been made to ensure patient and child safety.
No-one with a camera should be allowed in any @MSF space until steps have been made to ensure patient and child safety.
https://twitter.com/MatthewThomasP6/status/1540687105445093376
Adding this to the thread. Adding once again that I believe the international medical community will take a lead on this issue.
It is necessary that they do.
It is necessary that they do.
https://twitter.com/pattersonphoto/status/1540729085801861120
Adding this short thread by @puretemerity
This issue goes well beyond @MSF.
This issue goes well beyond @MSF.
https://twitter.com/puretemerity/status/1540692102027149312
Yes. This is necessary. Thank you for sharing this Muneera.
https://twitter.com/muneera_rasheed/status/1540735758860177409
This is why @DecoloniseMsf exists. Precisely because of this.
https://twitter.com/Curious_Cat33/status/1540702218306846720
'Saying sorry and promising to never do it again would not be good enough for Western victims and it should be the same for people everywhere else.' @KennethMSweeney
THIS
THIS
https://twitter.com/KennethMSweeney/status/1540757859247353857
'I sensed the presence of a French colonial humanitarianism ...'
Read the quote. And thank you for sharing Hamid.
Read the quote. And thank you for sharing Hamid.
https://twitter.com/HamidOuyachi/status/1540766732083675136
'Who is safeguarding the people being photographed?
What is going through the minds of those setting up/taking the pictures?' @JudeHabib
Such important questions. Especially in relation to safeguarding.
Do follow Jude. She does important work.
What is going through the minds of those setting up/taking the pictures?' @JudeHabib
Such important questions. Especially in relation to safeguarding.
Do follow Jude. She does important work.
This is such an important point @kay_lay_chi is making.
I am a white man.
Why am I being heard and not the 'Black people who have been saying this for decades'?
I am a white man.
Why am I being heard and not the 'Black people who have been saying this for decades'?
https://twitter.com/kay_lay_chi/status/1540773018418413568
For the anyone who had the stomach to get to the end of this thread here are the quite simple things I'm asking @MSF and all humanitarian orgs to have in place in relation to photography and child protection.
Should be a legal requirement.
Should be a legal requirement.
https://twitter.com/duckrabbitblog/status/1460557563800563713
I mean from the archives it's very clear that in many instances they cannot and do not.
And where they do, but end up unknowingly being sold as stock, than a kind of fraud has been committed against them (imho).
And where they do, but end up unknowingly being sold as stock, than a kind of fraud has been committed against them (imho).
https://twitter.com/Curious_Cat33/status/1540991822901673987
Structural racism is the right to photograph people in public spaces being extended to hospitals, but only in relation to Black suffering.
Exploitation is when the abuse of the right to confidentiality in medical spaces is commodified.
Amy Neilson is a medical Dr who has worked extensively in humanitarian contexts, including for MSF.
https://twitter.com/amyaneilson/status/1537617957488328704
'The whole business model of MSF is based on selling human misery, which is a part of its colonial heritage. As long as this business model remains the same, we will continue to steal the dignity from patients in the name of funding operations.'
@DrHassaanZahid (Former MSF)
@DrHassaanZahid (Former MSF)
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