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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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Rome, 28 September 2018 – Medici per i Diritti Umani (Medu) condemns the Salvini bill on security and immigration as a dangerous ideological measure, but above all of little intelligence as it will prevent migrants’ integration and decrease the overall public security. There are many critical points in the bill, but...
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Photo: Rocco Rorandelli Medici per i Diritti Umani – MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) presents the 2018 report on the living and working condition of the migrant workers in the Plain of Gioia Tauro (Calabria, South of Italy) titled “The Wretched of the Earth.” From December 2017 to April...
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  A CALL FOR ACTION BY MEDICI PER I DIRITTI UMANI (MEDU) AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ITALY Two weeks after the tragic fire that destroyed the San Ferdinando shantytown and caused the death of a young woman, the institutions’ response remains outrageously lacking. A few days ago, the Ministry of the...
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– Occupied Palestinian Territories- Photoreportage by Francesco Pistilli for Medu “Today all the village is here to receive medical assistance “ Salah Haj Yahia, Director of the mobile clinic More than 300 persons, among whom women and children, received specialistic medical care during one-day activities of the mobile clinic in...
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Rosarno January 27th ,2018 – A dead woman, another seriously wounded. This is the result of the devastating bonfire that flared up last night in the tent city / shanty town of San Ferdinando in the Piana di Gioia Tauro, the largest ghetto in Italy hosting two thousand migrants hired to...
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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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