whereas the international community has witnessed over the last few years a harrowing trend of attacks on hospitals and schools in armed conflicts around the world, such as the latest attacks on Doctors without Borders (MSF) health centres in Kunduz (Afghanistan) on 3 October 2015, in Razah (Yemen) on 10 January 2016 and in a number of Syrian towns throughout the ongoing conflict; whereas there has been an unprecedented increase in denial of humanitarian aid and access, the execution of civilians and humanitarian personnel, detention in dire conditions, and civilians being used as hostages or forced into slavery; whereas the growing ne ...[+++]eds and challenges, the lack of sustained commitments and the rising cost of humanitarian assistance have contributed to the current humanitarian system reaching its limits, and whereas this has forced a number of organisations to temporarily suspend food assistance, shelter and other life-saving humanitarian operations.

The saying ‘all the medicine in the world cannot replace exercise, but exercise can replace all the medicine in the world’ is timeless.

On 20 March 2003, the Commission announced that it would provide emergency humanitarian aid totalling 100 million euro to cover the basic needs of the Iraqi population (clothing, food, medical care, etc.), which will be administered in the country by at least 70 organisations and NGOs such as Doctors of the World, UNICEF, the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, etc.

Humanitarian operations funded under this decision will be implemented by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and by two NGOs – Médicins du Monde and Médicins sans Frontières.

For, nowadays, it is the major NGOs which have the opportunity to respond to a number of invitations to tender: Médecins du monde , Médecins sans frontières , the Red Cross and so on and so forth. That is my first comment.

For, nowadays, it is the major NGOs which have the opportunity to respond to a number of invitations to tender: Médecins du monde, Médecins sans frontières, the Red Cross and so on and so forth. That is my first comment.