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Yearly Archives: 2015

Rosarno

Orange-picking season: lack of Government measures in Calabria

““86% of the migrants working in agriculture don’t have an employment contract, more than half of them is sleeping on the ground, living without water, electricity and hygienic services” Rosarno, 17 December 2015 – Despite the commitment proclaimed by the Government to defeat the phenomenon of caporalato (illegal hiring) and...
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PHR-Israel: New East Jerusalem movement restrictions severely affect the timely delivery of health care

On 14 October 2015, Israeli security forces started implementing movement restrictions throughout East Jerusalem. Over twenty roads are currently blocked by concrete barricades and fourteen military checkpoints, delaying patient arrivals, medical teams and evacuations to Al-Hilal, Al-Makassed, Al-Amira Basma, Al-Mutla, Saint-John and Saint-Joseph hospitals. According to the Palestine Red Crescent...
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Document type: Press releases
Barrier

Incidents against medical teams, ambulances and medical facilities in the West Bank and Jerusalem

Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-IL): PHR-Israel: Over forty incidents against medical teams in the West Bank and Jerusalem reported in the past two weeks With the recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank, these last weeks have seen an increase in the number of reports...
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Document type: Press releases

Report Move or Die

Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Europe Move or die summarises the information and testimonies collected by Medici per i Diritti Umani (Doctors for Human Rights) – MEDU during the first 6 months of activities of the project “ON TO: Stopping the torture of refugees from Sub-Saharan countries along the...
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Document type: Report

Move or Die

Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Europe Rome, August 10, 2015 – Too often in Italy the arrival of migrants and refugees is perceived as “the” invasion “of a blurred crowd. Statements such as “let’s help them in their country” or its more xenophobic variant “They have to remain in...
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Document type: Press releases

MEDUs mobile clinic

August 2015 A short visit on board MEDUs mobile clinic “Camper per i diritti” in Rome, where volunteers and staff provide medical care and collect testimony of forced migrants. For more informations see the project Un camper per i diritti

TERRAINGIUSTA Unfair land

“Unfair Land”, a report on working and living conditions of foreign agricultural workers, was released in April 2015. The report was produced by MEDU – Medici per i Diritti Umani (Doctors for human rights) in collaboration with the Association for Judicial Studies on Immigration (Asgi) and the Laboratory of Theory...
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Document type: Press releases

CARA of Mineo: a reception model incompatible with personal dignity

Rome, June 11 th 2015 – Medici per i Diritti Umani -MEDU- (Doctors for Human Rights) releases the report on the CARA of Mineo reception center for asylum seekers) which was submitted on May the 25th to the Italian Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Detention and Reception Conditions of migrants....
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Report Terraingiusta

The report “UNFAIR LAND. REPORT ON THE WORKING AND LIVING CONDITIONS OF FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS” denounces the exploitation of migrant work in agriculture: off- the – books jobs, grievously irregular employment, sub-minimum wage employment, illegal recruitment, excessively long working , lack of safety and of proper health conditions, barriers to...
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Document type: Report