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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 Rome, October 18th, 2017 – Medici per i Diritti Umani /Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) presents EXODI 2017 the new web map on migratory routes from sub-Saharan countries to Europe.  photo NARCISO CONTRERAS EXODI is an interactive map based on 2,600 testimonies collected by Medici per i...
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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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The interactive web map is built upon the testimonies of 1.000 migrants coming from Eritrea, Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Sudan and other Sub-Saharan Countries.Five major routes departing from West Africa or the Horn of Africa and leading to Europe through Algeria, Libya and Egypt are described. Concerning...
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The interactive web map is built on the testimonies of 1.000 migrants from Eritrea, Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Sudan and other Sub-Saharan Countries. Five major routes are described from West Africa and the Horn of Africa to Europe passing through Algeria, Libya and Egypt. Among the factors...
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Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Europe Move or die summarises the information and testimonies collected by Medici per i Diritti Umani (Doctors for Human Rights) – MEDU during the first 6 months of activities of the project “ON TO: Stopping the torture of refugees from Sub-Saharan countries along the...
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The report “UNFAIR LAND. REPORT ON THE WORKING AND LIVING CONDITIONS OF FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS” denounces the exploitation of migrant work in agriculture: off- the – books jobs, grievously irregular employment, sub-minimum wage employment, illegal recruitment, excessively long working , lack of safety and of proper health conditions, barriers to...
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[social_button button=”facebook” furl=”http://www.mediciperidirittiumani.org/en/the-cie-archipelago-inquiry-into-the-italian-centres-for-identification-and-expulsion/” flayout=”button_count” fwidth=”450″ faction=”like” fcolorsheme=”light”] INTRODUCTION “What is important is something else, knowing what can be done (…) We can, at best, persuade. From the moment we persuade, we win, That is, we establish a situation of change which is difficult to counter.” Franco Basaglia1 , Brasilian Conferences2...
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[social_button button=”facebook” furl=”http://www.mediciperidirittiumani.org/en/behind-higher-fences/” flayout=”button_count” fwidth=”450″ faction=”like” fcolorsheme=”light”] Report on the identification and deportation centre of Ponte Galeria in Rome FOREWORD This report is the outcome of a visit to the identification and deportation centre of Ponte Galeria by a team of Medici per i Diritti Umani (MEDU) on 22 February...
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Report on the Ponte Galeria (Rome) identification and deportation centre for immigrants without residence permits Inadequate to protect the dignity of detainees and to guarantee their fundamental rights. Clearly ineffective in achieving the goals that justify it (i.e. the identification and the repatriation of the detainees), even after the extension...
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