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The Rosarno hoax

Disastrous living conditions for labourers against million-dollar still unused housing facilities. For the tenth consecutive year, MEDU has been present in the Gioia Tauro Plain to provide medical assistance and legal support to laborers employed in citrus harvesting. A team offering medical assistance and legal guidance, supported by two cultural...
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Health and Humanitarian Organizations Call for a Ceasefire

As health and humanitarian organizations witnessing the public health and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we call for an immediate ceasefire, the speedy release of hostages and the provision of long-term safety for all inhabitants in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory through negotiated solutions and international action.  The ongoing bombings,...
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Raising A Red Flag

We publish the press release of our colleagues from Physicians for Human Rights Israel following the Hamas attack in southern Israel** It’s time to sound the alarms and raise the red flags. amid unspeakable tragedy, we may be facing an additional disaster – on a scale we haven’t seen in...
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The Last Border -Western Alpin Border

Since the beginning of 2022, Medici per i Diritti Umani (MEDU) has been present in the town of Oulx, atthe border with France (Upper Susa Valley) with the project ‘Frontiera Solidale’. The project aims toguarantee medical assistance to the thousands of people crossing the north-western Alpine border toreach France. The...
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Project: Frontiera Solidale
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Croton shipwreck: a European Mare Nostrum operation immediately

Rome, Feb. 26, 2023- Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) expresses deep sorrow for the dozens of people who lost their lives in the tragic shipwreck off the coast fo Crotone in Calabria. It is not yet known exactly how many migrants were on board the wooden boat that left the...
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Mental health in Gaza: Hisham Bawakna’s testimony

Dr. Hisham Bawakna, is a public health psychiatrist, a PHRI volunteer and a member of PHRI’s medical delegation to the Gaza Strip. In Gaza, mild post-trauma isn’t considered by local physicians as post-trauma, because it’s normal. Everyone has it. When do you seek help? When it becomes unbearable, when it...
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The French-Italian border: a place where people continue to die

Three more deaths on the French-Italian border. On 1 February 2022, two foreign citizens died in tragic circumstances while trying to cross the border. A month earlier, in early January, another body was found this time on the other side of the border, near Modane. Three stories and three border...
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Appello all’UE: Ripristinare i diritti e i valori alle frontiere d’Europa

Call on the EU: Restore rights and values at Europe’s borders

As European civil society and professional organisations working on asylum, migration, humanitarian assistance and human rights, we are shocked by the continuing humanitarian crisis at the borders between the EU and Belarus which causes immense suffering and has led to the deaths of at least ten people. While we fully...
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LIBYA: TOPOGRAPHY OF A TORTURE CENTRE

Rome, 19 July 2021 –  While the Italian Parliament approved the renewal of funds intended to the Libyan Coast Guard on Friday the 16th of July, 2021, the details of the atrocities committed against migrants in detention centers in the North African country, whether controlled by the government in Tripoli or...
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YET ANOTHER EVICTION WITHOUT ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS IN PIAZZALE SPADOLINI

Rome, 15 July 2021 – On the morning of the 14th of July, the informal settlement in Piazzale Spadolini, located in the back of the Tiburtina station in Rome, was subject to yet another eviction operation in the presence of various Italian and Roman institutional actors: the Municipality of Rome,...
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Project: mobile clinic in rome