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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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15 Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organizations: Israel must provide necessary vaccines to Palestinian health care systems. As the Israeli healthcare system begins the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines to the Israeli public, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Israeli authorities to live up to their legal...
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Eighteen associations committed to protecting the health of migrants and refugees have launched an appeal to European governments and to members of the European Parliament. Rome, 16th December 2020 Large reception centres, such as the Moria camp, opened in Greece and Italy to implement the so-called Hotspot Approach, have devastating...
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The Lancet Public Health journal publishes MEDU’s appeal       Huge reception centers like Mineo and Moria have devastating effects on refugees and asylum-seekers’ mental health. Overcrowding; geographical and social isolation; long stay due to lengthy procedures in obtaining a residence permit; difficulties in accessing health care and social...
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A study by Medici per i Diritti Umani – MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) just published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry shows that post-migratory stressors, such as precarious living conditions in large and overcrowded reception centres, have negative effects on the refugees and asylum seekers’ mental health...
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Rome, 11 September 2020. For the seventh consecutive year, Doctors for Human Rights Italy (Medici per i Diritti Umani -Medu) operated in Calabria region, in the Gioia Tauro Piana, during the citrus harvest season (from the end of November to May 2020), providing primary health care and information on access...
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International and Italian journalistic investigations have recently exposed the Maltese authorities conduct, which is in open violation of obligations established in international conventions regarding the rescue at sea.