medico’s work involves an equal mix of defending and implementing political, social and economic human rights. We always connect our human rights work with the daily struggle for social justice, education and health and particularly when supporting people in migration or flight. …
The Mediterranean becomes a mass grave of nameless refugees. The number of drownings increase. The EU closes the access for asylum seekers from North Africa. …
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We have to understand the roots of tragedies to avoid repetition. The crisis in East Africa is not at all „unbelievable“, as some commentators continue to suggest, the approaching disaster has been foreseeable for years and decades. People are dying not only because of an unfortunate drought but also of systemic, wide-ranging problems such as climate change, the consequences of neo-liberal ideologies, military interventions and unstable grain markets - and because the world of states is unwilling to outlaw and pursue the warlords that have been destroying Somalia for 20 years. …
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The West African country of Mali is a migration hub with traditional routes within Africa to Arabic countries that stretch back to antiquity. This is partly a result of the weakness of the economy …
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Katunayake Free Trade Zone is 30 kilometres from the capital Colombo. ‘Eighty per cent of those employed here are women,’ says Anton Marcus from medico’s partner the Free Trade Zone and General …
Health work in the Palestinian enclaves …
How much "collateral damage" is permitted? Human rights work in a battlefield: a window onto the war on terror …
A Mai-based self-help organisation for deportees provides first aid and legal advice - and is making the social forums sit up and listen. …
According to partner organisations of the NGO aid and development charities „Brot fuer die Welt“, „Kindernothilfe“, „medico international“, „MISEREOR“ and the „Vereinte Evangelische …
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Berlin, 3rd February 2009. The alliance Entwicklung hilft is calling for "escape corridors", free access to the trapped civilians, and the immediate dispatch of international observers to northern …
Among the participants of the official G8 summit von Rostock it was Angela Merkel who at first seemed the only one to cut a good figure and for a while was even given the obsequious title "Climate …
