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Press release

Salvini bill not amendable: ideological, dangerous and of little intelligence

Rome, 28 September 2018 – Medici per i Diritti Umani (Medu) condemns the Salvini bill on security and immigration as a dangerous ideological measure, but above all of little intelligence as it will prevent migrants’ integration and decrease the overall public security. There are many critical points in the bill, but...
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Document type: Press releases,
Project: mobile clinic in rome, On-to
Rapporto Medu piana di gioia tauro

The Wretched of the Earth

Photo: Rocco Rorandelli Medici per i Diritti Umani – MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) presents the 2018 report on the living and working condition of the migrant workers in the Plain of Gioia Tauro (Calabria, South of Italy) titled “The Wretched of the Earth.” From December 2017 to April...
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Document type: Report,
Project: Terragiusta nel sud d’Italia
PIANA DI GIOIA TAURO: DUE SETTIMANE DOPO IL ROGO MORTALE

Piana di Gioia Tauro: two weeks after the mortal fire, living and safety conditions remain disastrous

  A CALL FOR ACTION BY MEDICI PER I DIRITTI UMANI (MEDU) AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ITALY Two weeks after the tragic fire that destroyed the San Ferdinando shantytown and caused the death of a young woman, the institutions’ response remains outrageously lacking. A few days ago, the Ministry of the...
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A day with the mobile clinic in the village of Iraq Burin

– Occupied Palestinian Territories- Photoreportage by Francesco Pistilli for Medu “Today all the village is here to receive medical assistance “ Salah Haj Yahia, Director of the mobile clinic More than 300 persons, among whom women and children, received specialistic medical care during one-day activities of the mobile clinic in...
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Rosarno rogo incendio

ROSARNO: CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD

Rosarno January 27th ,2018 – A dead woman, another seriously wounded. This is the result of the devastating bonfire that flared up last night in the tent city / shanty town of San Ferdinando in the Piana di Gioia Tauro, the largest ghetto in Italy hosting two thousand migrants hired to...
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Eight Years After the Revolt, Living and Working Conditions in Rosarno Remain Outrageously Inhumane.

Eight years after the revolt of Rosarno, little or nothing has changed for almost 3,000 migrant workers who have travelled to the Piana di Gioia Tauro this year for the citrus harvesting season. According to the data collected by the mobile clinic of Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU), which is...
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Exodi 2017 The new web map told by migrants

  EXODI 2017 Rome, October 18th, 2017 – Medici per i Diritti Umani /Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) presents EXODI 2017 the new web map on migratory routes from sub-Saharan countries to Europe.  photo NARCISO CONTRERAS EXODI is an interactive map based on 2,600 testimonies collected by Medici per i...
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Document type: Report,
Project: On-to

Press conference – Exodi 2017

EXODI 2017 Migratory routes from sub-Saharan countries to Europe The new web map told by migrants Thursday October 5th, at 11 am Sala stampa estera, vie dell’Umiltà 83 Rome 2000 testimonies in almost four years, out of those 1000 just in the last year. Through the stories and video testimonies...
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Document type: Press releases,
Project: On-to

ABUSES, TORTURES AND ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENTS IN THE LIBYAN HELL

  OXFAM, MEDU e BORDELINE SICILIA : “ABUSES, TORTURES AND ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENTS IN THE LIBYAN HELL” A new report reveals the brutalities inflicted daily to migrants by local militia, traffickers and criminal gangs Urgent call for the revocation of the Italy- Libya agreement and for a change of direction in...
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Document type: Press releases, Report,
Project: On-to
San Ferdinando

PIANA DI GIOIA TAURO: TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE IN SHACKS OF SAN FERDINANDO. RETURNING BACK TEN YEARS.

In the industrial area of ​​San Ferdinando there are more than 2 thousand migrants encamped in tents, shacks and abandoned buildings who are living and working in disastrous conditions. The Operational Protocol in terms of reception and integration signed almost a year ago at the Prefecture with the Region and...
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