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. …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Demilitarisation during a war, which cannot be named a "good war". Looking towards the post-conflict work required. …
Community work with survivors of the Guatemalan massacre …
"Inside Globalisation". Read an enthralling analysis of the concepts and the reality of psychosocial work in countries torn by war and violence …
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