Press releases

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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“It’s been 6 days on Sea Watch. There is 47 people on board, 8 of which are underage. These 47 human beings are being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, where hundreds of children, men and women have drowned. They are now hostages of yet another political dispute between countries. In...
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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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  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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Eight years after the revolt of Rosarno, little or nothing has changed for almost 3,000 migrant workers who have travelled to the Piana di Gioia Tauro this year for the citrus harvesting season. According to the data collected by the mobile clinic of Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU), which is...
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EXODI 2017 Migratory routes from sub-Saharan countries to Europe The new web map told by migrants Thursday October 5th, at 11 am Sala stampa estera, vie dell’Umiltà 83 Rome 2000 testimonies in almost four years, out of those 1000 just in the last year. Through the stories and video testimonies...
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  OXFAM, MEDU e BORDELINE SICILIA : “ABUSES, TORTURES AND ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENTS IN THE LIBYAN HELL” A new report reveals the brutalities inflicted daily to migrants by local militia, traffickers and criminal gangs Urgent call for the revocation of the Italy- Libya agreement and for a change of direction in...
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In the industrial area of ​​San Ferdinando there are more than 2 thousand migrants encamped in tents, shacks and abandoned buildings who are living and working in disastrous conditions. The Operational Protocol in terms of reception and integration signed almost a year ago at the Prefecture with the Region and...
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