Fatal Transactions is an international consumer campaign, calling on the public and other interested organisations to ask governments and companies involved in extractive industries to implement effective controls to ensure that the trade in natural resources does not finance or otherwise support conflict and economic injustice in Africa. The campaign wants to raise awareness and increase understanding of how western companies are involved in conflicts in Africa through buying natural resources from combatants. …
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The unparalleled medical progress over the last years, the increase of average life-expectancy, the growth of biomedical knowledge, the availability of effective drugs – all of this has passed by the majority of the world’s population almost without leaving the slightest trace. The premature death of nearly 12 million people could be avoided. Rethinking the global policy on medicines is necessary and urgent. medico works towards this aim. Ensuring access to essential medicines is imperative …
When Medico International and its partner organisations founded the International Campaign To Ban Landmines, no one had expected that it will trigger one of the first global civil society campaigns. …
International banks and large-scale enterprises have for decades been making money with the racists Apartheid regime. Credit provisions have enabled the Apartheid regime to suppress the people of …
