The Right to Health is easily proclaimed, signed by all valid Human Rights packages or defined as unavoidable in progressive constitutions, such as in Brazil or South Africa. Politicians and …
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At medico international ‘critical emergency relief’ means more than disaster management. We provide victims with the support they need to help themselves, jointly reflect with them on the underlying political and economic causes and assist them in coping with the psychological and social trauma. …
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• Emergency aid in the Garissa District – access to health services and advocacy work, PHM Kenya Circle • Emergency aid to East Africa, cofinancing famine crisis, Deutsche …
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• Campaign work for structural reforms in the reconstruction process, Pakistan Institute for Labour Education & Research (PILER) • Reconstruction of 20 villages in the Jocababad and …
• Emergency aid for victims of political violence, PHM Global, Cairo Office • Defending the right to reasonable living environment in Ezbet El Haggana Slum, Al Shehab Foundation for …
Psychosocial work has been at the core of medico’s work for decades. It started with support for victims of political violence, and today it has extended its activities to the consequences of political, economic and social exclusion and violence. There are many facets of this work from individual therapeutic support, psychosocial community work to political interventions and lobbying to establish human rights standards. …
• Support for a community-based mine awareness programme, Mines Advisory Group (MAG) • Mine awareness and assistance to victims of armed conflict, Fundación Tierra de Paz (TdP) € …
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the early 80s, debates about the right measures and justified resources in order to deal with an imminent health threat, haven’t been as heated as they …
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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 …
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 …
