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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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Since March, MEDU has started a project in Agadez, in partnership with UNHCR, in support of the most vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees. The MEDU medical-psychological team will provide assistance to over 1,600 refugees fleeing Libya (women, men and children, mostly Sudanese), who live now in difficult conditions in the...
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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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L’umanità è scomparsa Sulle rotte migratorie del XXI secolo (Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore) Preface by Massimiliano Aragona  In every generation there is a time in which all certainties crumble, and humanity seems to disappear. MEDU’s book “L’umanità è scomparsa” (litt. “Humanity has disappeared”) by Alberto Barbieri and colleagues tells the...
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January 21st, 2019–A cargo ship is bringing 100 migrants back to Libya. The migrants, in critical conditions, were rescued near Misurata’s shores. We can no longer ignore what is awaiting them in the Libyan detention camps of torture. “I was in Libya for 2 long years. When I arrived to...
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