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Rome, Feb. 26, 2023- Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) expresses deep sorrow for the dozens of people who lost their lives in the tragic shipwreck off the coast fo Crotone in Calabria. It is not yet known exactly how many migrants were on board the wooden boat that left the...
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In Ukraine’s Chernivtsi region, a Medu team is providing medical care, psychological and psychosocial support to the displaced population  From September 2022 on, our team has realized 2,973 medical visits and 846 psychological consultations and organized 65 psychosocial groups targeting children, women and the elderly people. The project  “Assistenza sanitaria e supporto psicosociale in favore della...
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Dr. Hisham Bawakna, is a public health psychiatrist, a PHRI volunteer and a member of PHRI’s medical delegation to the Gaza Strip. In Gaza, mild post-trauma isn’t considered by local physicians as post-trauma, because it’s normal. Everyone has it. When do you seek help? When it becomes unbearable, when it...
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The testimony of Aseel Aburass coordinator for Palestinian freedom of movement in the OPT and in the department of the mobile clinic Doctors for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) Israel has been keeping the Gaza Strip under a blockade for 15 years, with disastrous effects on the lives and health of...
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By Alberto Barbieri, physician, psychotherapist and general coordinator of Medu We cross the Siret border between Romania and Ukraine with MEDU’s mobile clinic. Our team consists of doctors, psychologists and interpreters. We are on our way to the Ukrainian city of Černivci, 40 km further north, once called Little Vienna...
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Physicians for Human Rights Israel petitioned the high court of justice because we cannot let a law enshrining wrongful discrimination between the country’s Jewish and Arab citizens stand. The Citizenship Law violates a slew of fundamental rights, separates spouses, tears apart children and parents and subverts the values of democracy.–In...
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When we decided to bring our support to the Ukranian population fleeing the war we knew that itwould imply operating in a constantly changing complex context, which is the main reason wechose a mobile intervention, in order to be able to operate in different places. At the moment the situation...
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My man proposed to me when he was in prison. It was before his sentencing, and no one knew how long he’d serve. “You might have to wait ten years for the wedding,” his father warned me, “Are you sure?” I said yes. I loved him, and I married him.–I...
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A report of Aseel Aburass which is a freedom of movement coordinator with PHRI “We get calls from women living in the Gaza Strip every day. They all have one thing in common – the Israeli permit regime, which limits their freedom of movement and denies them access to medical...
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The people who try to cross the Italian-French border are migrants coming from the Mediterranean route and extended families coming from the Balkan route, originally from the Middle East and South Asia. They are people fleeing from wars, persecutions, conflicts, whose journey can last years. They arrive in Oulx exhausted,...
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