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

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 force, are living in a sanitised parallel universe. They...

Sinani, which has been one of medico’s project partners for many years, grew out of a group of committed psychologists who provide therapeutic support to prisoners and torture victims of the apartheid regime. SINANI’s work in marginalised, excluded...

The coastal village of Tirúa was particularly badly hit by the severe earthquake that devastated Southern Chile in February 2010. Many Mapuche Indians, who were persecuted during the Pinochet dictatorship and also have little voice in society under...

In a windowless hall young women and men with facemasks and gloves sit in long rows sifting through yellowing, dusty books of files. The staff treat the material with the greatest care. For these files hold priceless information about a grisly...

Community work with survivors of the Guatemalan massacre

Demilitarisation during a war, which cannot be named a "good war". Looking towards the post-conflict work required.

**Project Funding 2012** - Legal advice offices in the Kono diamond region, Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) - Cholera prevention and public education, NMJD - Public relations work on deportations from Germany and strengthening self-help, Network of Ex-Asylum Seekers Sierra Leone (NEAS)

**Project Funding 2012** - Self-help by victims of apartheid, Khulumani Support Group - Political and social human rights for people with HIV/AIDS, Sinani- KwaZulu Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence - Strengthening socio-economic rights, Local Government Action - Campaign on the Limpopo educational crisis, Section 27

**Project Funding 2012** - Strengthening the National Health Forum, Alianza Ciudadana contra la Privatización de la Salud (ACCPS) via Asociación de Promotores Comunales Salvadoreños (APROCSAL) - Social fund for prosthetics wearers, Promotora de la Organización de Discapacitados de El Salvador (PODES) - Remembrance and human rights – strengthening academic curricula, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI)