medico’s work includes defending and asserting political, social and economic human rights equally. We combine our human rights work with the everyday struggle for social justice, education and healthcare – including specifically assisting those who are particularly vulnerable and marginalised. We see solidarity with the vulnerable and marginalised as a universal political obligation, which is at the centre of the social struggles we support. …
Health is a human right. But in the rural areas of the West Bank, access to health services is considerably reduced by the Israeli occupation policies. Their goal is evidently to oust the Palestinians living there into densely populated enclaves fully controlled by Israel and geographically separated from each other. This film shows how medico's partner PMRS nevertheless manages to provide basic health services to these cut-off communities. …
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Medico partner Comet-ME, an Israeli-Palestinian organization providing basic energy services to off-grid communities using environmentally and socially sustainable methods, has just opened its new …
At Yangon Film School, Myanmar’s first and only film school, young documentary film-makers courageously ignored the Burmese rules of the game at a time when pushing the limits was still harshly …
The Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD), Medico International – Germany, the Campaign for Just Mining (CJM) and the Association of Journalists on Mining and Extractives (AJME), …
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The European Union imports fifteen times more from Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory than from Palestinians themselves, a new report from a coalition of 22 …
documentation
The life of the people in Shaeb Al Buttum, under Israeli occupation and without water, electric power and proper roads, is a little better after installing a solar and wind power system. The …
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 …
The brutal massacre of at least 34 Lonmim Mine workers, who were mowed down by automatic rifle fire from the South African police at Marikana in the North West province, has sent shock waves throughout South Africa and the world. The backdrop to this tragedy is the terrible working conditions in the mining industry and the desperate poverty and inequality that continues to plague South African society. …
On 11.8.12 the police arrested 44 members of the medico-partnerorganization Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) as they were launching a new report entitled "Violations" and holding a briefing on …
2011 will go down as a key year in the history of the Arab world and the Middle East as a whole. The revolution on Cairo’s Tahrir Square defined the collective image of the ‘Arab spring’. The …
