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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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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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A LIFE VEST IS NOT ENOUGH – MEDU STARTS A CROWDFUNDING TO SAVE LIVES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA WITH RESQ. To donate visit this page A serious humanitarian crisis that has been going on for years in the central Mediterranean sea has led to death by shipwreck thousands of migrants...
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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.

italian french spanish arabic Recommendations WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN WITH WATER AND SOAP OR USE AN ALCOHOL BASED SOLUTION AVOID TO GET CLOSE TO PEOPLE, KEEP A DISTANCE OF 1 METRE AVOID CROWDED PLACES DON’T TOUCH YOUR EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH WITH YOUR HANDS AVOID HANDSHAKES AND HUGS UNTIL THE...
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We talked to a group of Ivorian women composed of 11 individuals; with them 4 children of whom 2 were young twins. “It’s difficult to understand where we are, what is happening, we are still traumatized. We went through a lot in Libya”. We ask them to talk about something....
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From the Medu clinical team operating during the disembarkation in Pozzallo The general conditions of migrants are good, even if two persons have been immediately hospitalized (one for skin burns) At the time of disembarkation, the same persons, identified as the most vulnerable by our psychologist, have been also questioned...
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