On World Humanitarian Day, health and human rights organizations demand accountability for violations of international humanitarian law in Jenin, including lack of protection for medical personnel...
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Joint Statement: 10 Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organizations: Israel must provide necessary vaccines to Palestinian health care systems
As the Israeli healthcare system begins the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines to the Israeli public, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Israeli authorities to live up to their legal...
Armenia + 1 more
Use of heavy explosive weapons in towns and cities in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must stop
The use of heavy explosive weapons in the cities of Ganja and Stepanakert, and other towns and populated areas in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is killing and injuring civilians, and destroying vital...
In the face of potential COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to meet patients’ needs
With over 250 identified COVID-19 Palestinian patients in the West Bank and potentially dozens in the Gaza Strip we, the undersigned organizations, express grave concern in the face of a potential...
Iraq + 2 more
Explosive violence: The problem of explosive weapons
Executive Summary and Recommendations This report considers the broad humanitarian problems arising from the use of "explosive weapons" - weapons that cause injury, death or damage by projecting...
Rehabilitation under fire: Health care in Iraq 2003-2007
(extract) A health system under pressure The demands on the Iraqi health system have increased considerably since 2003, including trauma and mental illness. Numerous reports document poor and...
Sudan: Refreshingly safe and cool to drink
From Medair Sudan (Northern States) -- Medair runs an innovative pilot project that introduces bio-sand filters to a community in Southern Kordofan Two months ago, Awad Abbas and his family began...
Iraq Health Update 30 Mar 2006
Conflict fuels Iraqi health crisis This Update, by Kingston Reif, contains new information about the state of health and healthcare in Iraq. It is the latest in a series of reports in which Medact...
Iraq health update - Summer 2005
There have been a number of significant developments in Iraq since Medact published Enduring Effects of War: Health in Iraq 2004 at the end of November (1). Publication coincided with the problematic...
Enduring effects of war health in Iraq 2004
This report assesses the impact of the recent war in Iraq and the ensuing period of insecurity on health, the health care system and health reconstruction initiatives. It describes the reported...
Enduring effects of war health in Iraq 2004
This report assesses the impact of the recent war in Iraq and the ensuing period of insecurity on health, the health care system and health reconstruction initiatives. It describes the reported...
Medact statement prior to hand-over of sovereignty in Iraq on June 30
As a UK organisation of health professionals Medact reaffirms its condemnation of the use of military force to try to solve the alleged weapons of mass destruction crisis in Iraq. The UK and US...
Continuing collateral damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq
Health of Iraqi people is worse following war says new report The war in Iraq was declared officially at an end six months ago, but the health and environmental costs of the conflict are still being...
Collateral damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq
Collateral Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq was issued in London on 12 November 2002 by the global health organisation Medact, the UK affiliate of International Physicians...