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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 194. Chapters: Medecins Sans Frontieres, Greenpeace, List of Bilderberg participants, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Club of Madrid, Operation Wallacea, Messiah Foundation International, Tablighi Jamaat, The Elders (organization), Toastmasters International, International Solidarity Movement, Reporters Without Borders, IEEE Smart Grid, International Delphic Council, Bilderberg Group, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation, Association for Progressive Communications, Royal Academy of Dance, World Policy Council, Free Software Foundation, Survival International, Avaaz, International Society of Automation, BRAC (NGO), Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, Friends of the Earth Europe, Asian Cultural Council, International Crisis Group, Camp Rising Sun, Save China's Tigers, Doctors for Global Health, World Council of Churches, Global Witness, Junior Chamber International, International Property Rights Index, Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation, Austrian Service Abroad, Confederation Internationale des Societes dAuteurs et Compositeurs, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Board of European Students of Technology, Institute of Pacific Relations, Association for Computing Machinery, Safari Club International, Sister Cities International, Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences, Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention, NOVA-MBA Association, POWERtalk International, International Chamber of Commerce, Aspen Institute, Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de l'Europe, AEGEE-Yerevan, Global Zero (campaign), Telecoms sans frontieres. Excerpt: (MSF) (pronounced ( listen)), or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization, nobel prize laureate, best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization is known in most of the world by its French name or simply as MSF, but in Canada and the United States the name Doctors Without Borders is commonly used. In 2007 over 26,000, mostly local, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, logistical experts, water and sanitation engineers and administrators provided medical aid in over 60 countries. Private donors provide about 80% of the organization's funding, while governmental and corporate donations provide the rest, giving MSF an annual budget of approximately US$400 million. was created in 1971, in the aftermath of the Biafra secession, by a small group of French doctors and journalists who believed that all people have the right to medical care regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation, and that the needs of these people outweigh respect for national borders. Core documents outlining MSF's principles are the Charter and the Chantilly Principles, along with the later La Mancha Agreement, which in Rules, Section 2 addresses governance. MSF has an associative structure, where operational decisions are made, largely independently, by the 5 operational centres (Amsterdam, Barcelona-Athens, Brussels, Geneva and Paris). Common policies on core issues are coordinated by the International Council, in which each of the 19 sections (national offices) is represented. The International Council meets in Geneva, Switzerland, where the International Office, which coordinates international activities common to the operational centres, is also based. The organization actively provides health care and medical training to populations in about 70 countries, and frequently insists on political responsibility in conf
