Press release

Since the beginning of 2022, Medici per i Diritti Umani (MEDU) has been present in the town of Oulx, atthe border with France (Upper Susa Valley) with the project ‘Frontiera Solidale’. The project aims toguarantee medical assistance to the thousands of people crossing the north-western Alpine border toreach France. The...
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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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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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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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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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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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