Migration is part of the human story.
Doctors of the World stands with people on the move as their fundamental rights come under threat.
Where health meets human rights
Every day, in every corner of the world, men, women, and children leave their homes, fleeing violence, poverty, and instability. Yet for many, the dangers don’t end with the journey. Migrants and refugees face detention, deportation, and shrinking resources, and healthcare is too often the first thing denied. Families go without treatment, women without reproductive care, and children without even basic health services.
Doctors of the World steps in to close that gap, defending human rights through safe, dignified care that meets people wherever they are.
Protecting rights with safe spaces for care
Our teams defend the right to health on the road, at the border, in conflict zones, and beyond—providing urgent care, bearing witness, and delivering essential services in the most challenging and risky conditions.
How our teams protect the right to health:
- Access to care regardless of status: People on the move are often denied basic health services; we provide medical and mental health support without discrimination.
- Sexual and reproductive rights: Women and girls in crisis must have safe deliveries and reproductive care that protects their health and dignity.
- Access to clean water and food: Safe water, nutritious food, and other necessities are essential to survival, especially for those displaced or in remote areas.
North and South America
Across the Americas, we have provided dignified care for tens of thousands of migrants and refugees, who face perilous routes and limited access to fundamental rights like health care, food, and safe water—conditions especially severe in the Darién Gap and along the Colombia-Panama corridor, where Doctors of the World provides essential medical care and shelter support. In El Paso, Texas Doctors of the World’s shelter-based clinics have offered medical, mental health, and legal services regardless of status
Middle East
In Gaza and Syria, years of conflict have made sexual and reproductive health care dangerously hard to access. Doctors of the World provides lifesaving maternal and reproductive health services to women and children who would otherwise go without care. Local women health workers play a critical role—ensuring that, even in crisis, care is delivered safely, with dignity, and in ways families trust.
The Sahel
In Africa’s Sahel, access to fundamental rights like food, water, and medical care is under extreme threat from state violence, climate-driven scarcity, and armed conflict. In Niger, thousands of people—including many children—are being forcibly expelled into the desert, exposed to dangerous heat, violence, and life-threatening deprivation. Doctors of the World teams have treated severe dehydration, malnutrition, injuries, and trauma as people arrive after days in these brutal conditions.
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