Dear readers, Twice a year we publish an international newsletter which includes a handful of texts from the past few months on subjects that we consider important and assume will also meet with interest in other parts of the world. We also look forward to your feedback! This time we are putting the spotlight on the earthquake in Syria and Turkey. medico colleague Anita Starosta was in Turkey shortly after the earthquake and describes the aid and assistance provided by our partners on the ground and how the Erdogan regime is dealing with the disaster. In Pakistan, millions of people are still homeless in the wake of the devastating floods last year. With the advancing climate catastrophe looming, medico colleague Thomas Rudhof-Seibert reports on how our Pakistani partner organizations can continue to act. In the face of persecution and no prospects, many people around the world have no choice but to flee. From southern Africa, the refugee route leads through the treacherous Sahara. Our colleague Kerem Schamberger was in Niger and met with medico partners and migrants there attempting to overcome European isolationism. In Central America, democracy and the rule of law are under fire. In an interview, former Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz analyzes the regional trend towards authoritarianism. The war in Ukraine has been raging for more than a year now and its tragic impacts are preoccupying the world. It remains unclear how the spiral of escalation can finally be broken - Russia refuses to relinquish its plans for conquest, and the West is banking on a military solution. What does this mean in Ukraine? In the foreword to a book whose publication in German we supported, Katja Maurer asks how we can escape the war regime threatening the world. 75 years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded. But it can barely deliver on its responsibility for global health. Too great are the dependencies, and too uncertain its funding. Andreas Wulf, a medico colleague, describes what reforms are needed. Finally, let me refer you to the media library for the event series entitled “Decolonizing Aid”, which has now come to an end. In the context of this series, various speakers explored the question of whether development policy and aid can be emancipatory. And if so, how. All the best from
the medico international team | 
