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15 Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organizations: Israel must provide necessary vaccines to Palestinian health care systems. As the Israeli healthcare system begins the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines to the Israeli public, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Israeli authorities to live up to their legal...
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Eighteen associations committed to protecting the health of migrants and refugees have launched an appeal to European governments and to members of the European Parliament. Rome, 16th December 2020 Large reception centres, such as the Moria camp, opened in Greece and Italy to implement the so-called Hotspot Approach, have devastating...
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The Lancet Public Health journal publishes MEDU’s appeal       Huge reception centers like Mineo and Moria have devastating effects on refugees and asylum-seekers’ mental health. Overcrowding; geographical and social isolation; long stay due to lengthy procedures in obtaining a residence permit; difficulties in accessing health care and social...
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A study by Medici per i Diritti Umani – MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) just published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry shows that post-migratory stressors, such as precarious living conditions in large and overcrowded reception centres, have negative effects on the refugees and asylum seekers’ mental health...
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A study by Medici per i Diritti Umani – MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) just published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry shows that post-migratory stressors, such as precarious living conditions in large and overcrowded reception centres, have negative effects on the refugees and asylum seekers’ mental health...
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Rome, 11 September 2020. For the seventh consecutive year, Doctors for Human Rights Italy (Medici per i Diritti Umani -Medu) operated in Calabria region, in the Gioia Tauro Piana, during the citrus harvest season (from the end of November to May 2020), providing primary health care and information on access...
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International and Italian journalistic investigations have recently exposed the Maltese authorities conduct, which is in open violation of obligations established in international conventions regarding the rescue at sea.

Report on Human Rights Violations Against Migrants and Refugees in Libya (2014-2020) These terrible things are happening now. You have to go to prisons in Libya to go and free who is inside! F., 24 years old from Sudan, February 2020 Rome, 16 March 2020 – Around 660 thousand migrants...
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Report on Human Rights Violations Against Migrants and Refugees in Libya (2014-2020) These terrible things are happening now. You have to go to prisons in Libya to go and free who is inside! F., 24 years old from Sudan, February 2020 Rome, 17 March 2020 – Around 660 thousand migrants...
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italian french spanish arabic Recommendations WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN WITH WATER AND SOAP OR USE AN ALCOHOL BASED SOLUTION AVOID TO GET CLOSE TO PEOPLE, KEEP A DISTANCE OF 1 METRE AVOID CROWDED PLACES DON’T TOUCH YOUR EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH WITH YOUR HANDS AVOID HANDSHAKES AND HUGS UNTIL THE...
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