Press releases

The Centres of Special Reception for Asylum Seekers and the experience in Ragusa (Sicily) Rome, April 27th 2016 – Although the Centres of Special Reception for Asylum Seekers (CAS) are defined as “temporary and extraordinary structures”, they represent, for some years now, the backbone of the reception system in Italy,...
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Dear European Leaders: As international organisations working directly with refugees and migrants in Europe, we ask European Member States present at the European Council meeting of 17th and 18th March 2016 to take the opportunity to come together in solidarity and conclude bold, unified and decisive policies to address the...
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On 14 October 2015, Israeli security forces started implementing movement restrictions throughout East Jerusalem. Over twenty roads are currently blocked by concrete barricades and fourteen military checkpoints, delaying patient arrivals, medical teams and evacuations to Al-Hilal, Al-Makassed, Al-Amira Basma, Al-Mutla, Saint-John and Saint-Joseph hospitals. According to the Palestine Red Crescent...
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Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-IL): PHR-Israel: Over forty incidents against medical teams in the West Bank and Jerusalem reported in the past two weeks With the recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank, these last weeks have seen an increase in the number of reports...
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Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Europe Rome, August 10, 2015 – Too often in Italy the arrival of migrants and refugees is perceived as “the” invasion “of a blurred crowd. Statements such as “let’s help them in their country” or its more xenophobic variant “They have to remain in...
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“Unfair Land”, a report on working and living conditions of foreign agricultural workers, was released in April 2015. The report was produced by MEDU – Medici per i Diritti Umani (Doctors for human rights) in collaboration with the Association for Judicial Studies on Immigration (Asgi) and the Laboratory of Theory...
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Rome, June 11 th 2015 – Medici per i Diritti Umani -MEDU- (Doctors for Human Rights) releases the report on the CARA of Mineo reception center for asylum seekers) which was submitted on May the 25th to the Italian Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Detention and Reception Conditions of migrants....
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The living, working and sanitary conditions of the several thousand migrants who arrive at the Piana di Gioia Tauro every year to harvest citrus fruits are consistently appalling (see VIDEO, see PHOTOS). In one month, 150 agricultural workers have been assisted by the mobile clinic of MEDU. They are mainly...
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Rome, 25 February 2014 – Medici per i Diritti Umani (MEDU) makes public national data on the Centres for Identification and Expulsion (CIE) for the year 2013. According to the State Police, overall in 2013, 6.016 migrants (5.431 men and 585 women) have been detained in Italian CIEs. Less than...
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Photo: Kami Fares Over a hundred accounts collected from migrants, both adult and underage, detailing their experiences of summary readmission from Italy to Greece. Italy does not safeguard the basic human rights of the migrants, especially asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors. Rome, November 28th 2013 – Medici per i Diritti...
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