Press release

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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– Occupied Palestinian Territories- Photoreportage by Francesco Pistilli for Medu “Today all the village is here to receive medical assistance “ Salah Haj Yahia, Director of the mobile clinic More than 300 persons, among whom women and children, received specialistic medical care during one-day activities of the mobile clinic in...
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Rosarno January 27th ,2018 – A dead woman, another seriously wounded. This is the result of the devastating bonfire that flared up last night in the tent city / shanty town of San Ferdinando in the Piana di Gioia Tauro, the largest ghetto in Italy hosting two thousand migrants hired to...
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