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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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Health and Humanitarian Organisations Speak Out

As we witness an unfolding humanitarian crisis and unprecedented escalation, the undersigned humanitarian and health organisations call for an immediate ceasefire and aid access into the Gaza Strip as the health system faces total collapse, and the immediate release of civilian hostages.  Israel’s current assault on Gaza resulted in more...
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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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Pain leads to more pain

We publish the appeal of our colleagues from Physicians for Human Rights Israel following the Hamas attack in southern Israel** Dear friends Harming civilians is a crime against international law, fundamental moral values, and our common humanity. Saturday’s Hamas assault in southern Israel included the injury, abduction, and murder of...
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The testimony of Salah Haj Yahya Director of the Mobile ClinicPhysicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI)

It is with mixed emotions that I write to you today, a week after the assault on Jenin. On the one hand, there is a sense of relief after seeing an end to Israel’s indiscriminate attack on unprotected civilians. On the other hand, it is only a matter of time...
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Summary – Rosarno Observatory

X Report by Medici per i Diritti Umani on the living and working conditions of foreign farm labourers in the Gioia Tauro Plain For the tenth consecutive year, Medici per i Diritti Umani (MEDU) operated in the Gioia Tauro Plain in the framework of the project “Open Fields: laboratory of...
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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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On february 24 2022  war broke out in Ukraine

In Ukraine’s Chernivtsi region, a Medu team is providing medical care, psychological and psychosocial support to the displaced population  From September 2022 on, our team has realized 2,973 medical visits and 846 psychological consultations and organized 65 psychosocial groups targeting children, women and the elderly people. The project  “Assistenza sanitaria e supporto psicosociale in favore della...
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Project: Ukraine emergency
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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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