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Former Doctors Without Borders president James Orbinski on humanitarianism

The Sawyer Seminar series featured a lecture on “Humanitarianism and Civil Society” by Professor James Orbinski, a professor of public health at the University of Toronto and the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner as president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. His talk looked at the citizen movements to deliver medicine to those in need.

Listen to lecture (38 mins 48 secs)
Listen to Q&A (41 mins 33 secs)


Posted by Humphrey Institute Events on February 6, 2008 11:26 PM | ¤

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