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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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David Batty

Médecins Sans Frontières apologises for using images of child rape survivor

MSF’s international president Dr Christos Christou
MSF’s international president, Dr Christos Christou, said the medical charity should have protected the 16-year-old girl shown in the photographs. Photograph: Pierre-Yves Bernard/MSF

The international president of Médecins Sans Frontières has apologised for publishing photographs of a teenage rape survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on its website, following criticism that the images were unethical and racist.

Dr Christos Christou also announced that the medical charity had tightened its guidelines on photographing vulnerable minors, such as survivors of sexual abuse, requiring that they should not be identified visually or by name.

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