Stigmatization and discrimination of deportees has for a long time made the discourse on deportation a taboo in Sierra Leone. Those deported simply withdraw from society fearing provocation and false accusation from their friends and even family members …
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Louis Reynolds is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and Member of the People’s Health Movement in South Africa. …
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The brutal massacre of at least 34 Lonmim Mine workers, who were mowed down by automatic rifle fire from the South African police at Marikana in the North West province, has sent shock waves throughout South Africa and the world. The backdrop to this tragedy is the terrible working conditions in the mining industry and the desperate poverty and inequality that continues to plague South African society. …
On 11.8.12 the police arrested 44 members of the medico-partnerorganization Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) as they were launching a new report entitled "Violations" and holding a briefing on …
‘We’ve never seen anything like this here before!’ The security officer at the Palace of the Nations in Geneva is visibly upset. Together with uniformed colleagues, he has entered a meeting …
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As in the postwar years in Germany, many in the Central American nation of Guatemala would like to forget the past. The rich families in particular, who had always ruled the country with brutal …
Even though the number of landmine victims in Afghanistan has fallen by 60% in the last few years, there is still danger to life and limb lurking everywhere – in the soil, in the fields, on the way …
Death from hunger is preceded by long, agonising weeks of starvation. Mind and body at first adapt to the continuing shortage of food, lowering the metabolism to a minimum. Muscles shrink, skin …
2011 will go down as a key year in the history of the Arab world and the Middle East as a whole. The revolution on Cairo’s Tahrir Square defined the collective image of the ‘Arab spring’. The …
The plan is to tackle the double-edged character of NGOs not just in the context of humanitarian organisations but much more general. NGOs as part of civil society, civil society as part of an extended state, the interaction between public and private actors, the need to re-politicise both the NGOs and the discourse about civil society, the threat of getting instrumentalised from security policy, commercial interests, and in the attempts of states to overcoming their legitimation crisis. And, of course ideas for the way out. …
For more than 40 years Medico International has been championing the human right to health. Together with our partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America we are striving to achieve living situations that allow the best possible level of health …
