It is with mixed emotions that I write to you today, a week after the assault on Jenin. On the one hand, there is a sense of relief after seeing an end to Israel’s indiscriminate attack on unprotected civilians. On the other hand, it is only a matter of time...
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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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In Ukraine’s Chernivtsi region, a Medu team is providing medical care, psychological and psychosocial support to the displaced population  From September 2022 on, our team has realized 2,973 medical visits and 846 psychological consultations and organized 65 psychosocial groups targeting children, women and the elderly people. The project  “Assistenza sanitaria e supporto psicosociale in favore della...
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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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The testimony of Aseel Aburass coordinator for Palestinian freedom of movement in the OPT and in the department of the mobile clinic Doctors for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) Israel has been keeping the Gaza Strip under a blockade for 15 years, with disastrous effects on the lives and health of...
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By Alberto Barbieri, physician, psychotherapist and general coordinator of Medu We cross the Siret border between Romania and Ukraine with MEDU’s mobile clinic. Our team consists of doctors, psychologists and interpreters. We are on our way to the Ukrainian city of Černivci, 40 km further north, once called Little Vienna...
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Physicians for Human Rights Israel petitioned the high court of justice because we cannot let a law enshrining wrongful discrimination between the country’s Jewish and Arab citizens stand. The Citizenship Law violates a slew of fundamental rights, separates spouses, tears apart children and parents and subverts the values of democracy.–In...
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When we decided to bring our support to the Ukranian population fleeing the war we knew that itwould imply operating in a constantly changing complex context, which is the main reason wechose a mobile intervention, in order to be able to operate in different places. At the moment the situation...
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My man proposed to me when he was in prison. It was before his sentencing, and no one knew how long he’d serve. “You might have to wait ten years for the wedding,” his father warned me, “Are you sure?” I said yes. I loved him, and I married him.–I...
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