medico-Themes

Health is more than the absence of illness. For medico, achieving the comprehensive right to health accordingly includes creating healthy working, living and environmental conditions for all.

• Health theme page

For the right to rights. In a deeply divided world with a global economy which excludes millions of people socially and economically, and even makes them 'surplus', medico stands by those who defend and implement indivisible social, political and economic human rights.

• Human Rights theme page

Defending vulnerability. With empathy, trust, and respect, medico's partner organizations create spaces where survivors of torture, displacement, or sexual violence can regain their dignity and ability to act.

• Psychosocial work theme page

Solidary assistance and strengthening of self-help. In over five decades of assistance to people in need, medico has learned that emergency aid – contrary to media presentations – is not a question of speed. Even in acute crises, international NGOs have to promote and expand existing structures, instead of simply replacing domestic actors.

• Emergency Aid theme page

For the right to stay. For the right to move. Everywhere. All over the world people are fleeing from war, poverty and hopelessness. Our partners fight causes of flight, provide humanitarian relief, medical care, psychological assistance and legal counseling to refugees.

• Refugees & Migration theme page

Against the colonization of the future. Most affected and yet least responsible. Climate justice from the perspective of the Global South: Who actually owes what to whom?

• Climate Justice theme page