Bearing witness

Abstract

Morten Rostrup has just finished three years as head of Médecins Sans Frontières. He tells Tony Sheldon how the agency's work is being threatened by the way aid is being co-opted into the “war on terror”

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Morten Rostrup, pictured last year with a child in Libya, thinks that humanitarian aid is being increasingly frustrated by a rise in “politicisation and militarisation” Credit: KRIS TORGESON