Press release

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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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.

Press conference canceled Wednesday 11th march, 11.30am Sala Stampa Estera, via dell’Umiltà 83/c-Roma Medici per i Diritti Umani presenta LA FABBRICA DELLA TORTURA Report on Human Rights Violations of Migrants and Refugees in Libya (2014-2020) “hese terrible things are happening now. Dou have to go to prisons in Libya to...
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Report on the life and working conditions of agricultural workers in the Capitanata region     Foggia, (Apulia – Italy) 21rst of October 2019. Doctors for Human Rights Italy (Medici per i Diritti Umani – Medu) publishes “The bad season. Report on the Life and working conditions of agricultural workers in the capitatana region”....
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A few days ago, a grotesque controversy broke out over the number of migrants who died in the Mediterranean Sea following Minister Salvini’s statements, who, defending his anti-landing policy, recklessly stated: “In 2019 there were only two deaths in the Mediterranean”. In a subsequent tweet then the minister published, in...
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An extemporaneous measure that risks to produce further precariousness MEDU and A Buon Diritto negatively regard the decision to carry out yet another and precipitous evacuation of San Ferdinando’s shantytown, scheduled for the 6th of March. Indeed, the urgency to evacuate a settlement with dramatic housing and sanitation conditions is...
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Rome, 28 September 2018 – Medici per i Diritti Umani (Medu) condemns the Salvini bill on security and immigration as a dangerous ideological measure, but above all of little intelligence as it will prevent migrants’ integration and decrease the overall public security. There are many critical points in the bill, but...
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Photo: Rocco Rorandelli Medici per i Diritti Umani – MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) presents the 2018 report on the living and working condition of the migrant workers in the Plain of Gioia Tauro (Calabria, South of Italy) titled “The Wretched of the Earth.” From December 2017 to April...
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  A CALL FOR ACTION BY MEDICI PER I DIRITTI UMANI (MEDU) AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ITALY Two weeks after the tragic fire that destroyed the San Ferdinando shantytown and caused the death of a young woman, the institutions’ response remains outrageously lacking. A few days ago, the Ministry of the...
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