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Press conference canceled Wednesday 11th march, 11.30am Sala Stampa Estera, via dell’Umiltà 83/c-Roma Medici per i Diritti Umani presenta LA FABBRICA DELLA TORTURA Report on Human Rights Violations of Migrants and Refugees in Libya (2014-2020) “hese terrible things are happening now. Dou have to go to prisons in Libya to...
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We talked to a group of Ivorian women composed of 11 individuals; with them 4 children of whom 2 were young twins. “It’s difficult to understand where we are, what is happening, we are still traumatized. We went through a lot in Libya”. We ask them to talk about something....
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Report on the life and working conditions of agricultural workers in the Capitanata region     Foggia, (Apulia – Italy) 21rst of October 2019. Doctors for Human Rights Italy (Medici per i Diritti Umani – Medu) publishes “The bad season. Report on the Life and working conditions of agricultural workers in the capitatana region”....
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From the Medu clinical team operating during the disembarkation in Pozzallo The general conditions of migrants are good, even if two persons have been immediately hospitalized (one for skin burns) At the time of disembarkation, the same persons, identified as the most vulnerable by our psychologist, have been also questioned...
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A few days ago, a grotesque controversy broke out over the number of migrants who died in the Mediterranean Sea following Minister Salvini’s statements, who, defending his anti-landing policy, recklessly stated: “In 2019 there were only two deaths in the Mediterranean”. In a subsequent tweet then the minister published, in...
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Since March, MEDU has started a project in Agadez, in partnership with UNHCR, in support of the most vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees. The MEDU medical-psychological team will provide assistance to over 1,600 refugees fleeing Libya (women, men and children, mostly Sudanese), who live now in difficult conditions in the...
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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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L’umanità è scomparsa Sulle rotte migratorie del XXI secolo (Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore) Preface by Massimiliano Aragona  In every generation there is a time in which all certainties crumble, and humanity seems to disappear. MEDU’s book “L’umanità è scomparsa” (litt. “Humanity has disappeared”) by Alberto Barbieri and colleagues tells the...
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January 21st, 2019–A cargo ship is bringing 100 migrants back to Libya. The migrants, in critical conditions, were rescued near Misurata’s shores. We can no longer ignore what is awaiting them in the Libyan detention camps of torture. “I was in Libya for 2 long years. When I arrived to...
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