medico’s work has always been anchored in local, national and global networks, particularly for lobbying, advocacy and running campaigns and conferences. Where this involves confidential negotiations, public debate or protest on the street, the object is always to act in concert to exert political pressure on state or private sector powers. …
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. …
Adèle Kirsten, Local Government Action, and Tshepo Madlingozi, Khulumani Support Group talk about the massacre of Marikana, their ambivalent relationship to the ANC, white capital and social movements in today’s South Africa. …
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Medico's total budget for 2011 was € 20,234,329.46. This is a further slight increase on the previous year, due primarily to extensive reserves for projects for which funds were provided in 2010 …
‘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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Proposals and international debates for a radical change in politics …
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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. …
People are inevitably captivated by disasters. Television, online media, social networks and newspapers report immediately from affected areas. In just the first three months of 2011, the earthquake in New Zealand, the flood in Australia, and in particular, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan provided shocking images. Extreme natural events such as the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 as well as the earthquake in Haiti and the flood in Pakista n both in 2010 have had catastrophic effects on the affected regi ons. The frequency and intensity of such extreme events have increased alarmingly in recent years. But did the disaster risk also increase? …
medico works with people and organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America who want to see short- and long-term political and social change. Working together includes continuously learning from and for each other. Planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) methods also help us in our critical and reflective dialogue. …
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How is the democratic process in Egypt evolving in the moment, what are the key actors? It can be said that Egypt is going through the second stage of the revolution which began on the 25th of …
The People’s Health Movement (PHM) was founded in December 2000 in Savar, Bangladesh. 1600 people from 93 countries came together at the premises of medico’s partner Gonoshasthaya Kendra: …
2010 was the bloodiest year of the war in Afghanistan, with the civil population the hardest hit by the violence. For development aid organisations working in the country this was a reason to …
