We want to use our experience to help the Ukrainian people. In recent weeks we have worked to understand how and where to intervene to bring our support to the Ukrainian population fleeing the war. In humanitarian crises such as this, we need to quickly adapt the interventions according to...
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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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Oulx,4 February 2022 –Fathallah Balafhail, 31, was found dead on 2 January 2022 at the Barrage delFreney, not far from Modane, after trying to walk across the Alps. He came fromMorocco, one of the many who tried the longest route crossing the Balkans viaTurkey. He had lived for a while...
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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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(The update dates back to the 12th of August, 2021) The situation at the north-west border in the Upper Susa Valley – where for months MEDU has been monitoring the living conditions and the respect of the human rights of men, women and children coming mainly from the Balkan route...
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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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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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Oulx, 9 July 2021 – In the first five months of 2021 (January to May) the small town of Oulx, located on the Italian-French border in the Upper Susa Valley, continued to be an important crossroad of two migratory flows towards France, as already reported by MEDU in previous reports:...
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Rome, June 17, 2021 – For the eighth consecutive year, Medici per i Diritti Umani (MEDU) operated in the Plain of Gioia Tauro, Calabria, during the citrus harvest season with the aim of promoting the protection of the health and fundamental rights of the approximately 2,000 foreign labourers employed in...
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We share a letter written by our partner Physicians for Humans Rights – Israel and we, too, wish for quiter and safer times ahead for everyone.  Dear friends In these turbulent moments, we want to sound a clear and unequivocal call for protecting human rights. Over the past several days...
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