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Fracking: what is the British government trying to hide?
Decisions over the onshore drilling need to be taken with the facts in the open, not pushed through Parliament in a rush. By John Ashton We shouldn’t need a report […]
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Open letter to Shell's Ben van Beurden from John Ashton
John Ashton is an independent commentator and co-founder of the think tank E3G. He served from 2006-12 as Special Representative for Climate Change for three successive Foreign Secretaries. He spoke […]
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Might Ukraine become a nuclear battle-ground?
Dr Frank Boulton Ukraine has always held a special place in Russian history: Kiev, its capital, was founded when the ‘Kiev Rus’ (descended from Vikings) took the settlement from occupying […]
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What may we learn from Fukushima?
“11th March 2015 marks the fourth anniversary of Fukushima. Frank Boulton’s article, posted on Medact’s former website in April 2011, allows a fresh look at the immediate reaction felt throughout Medact […]
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‘But they just can’t kill the beast’: the ongoing neoliberal plague
In this guest post, Ronald Labonté traces the history of neoliberalism through structural adjustment programs, the Great Recession and into current Austerity Agendas. Labonté examines why neoliberalism continues to dominate economic […]
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Support for doctors working in immigration detention centres
Torture and doctors’ dual obligation Support for doctors working in immigration detention centresIn recent years, colleagues and I have examined several hundred asylum seekers giving histories of torture but subjected […]
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Raif Badawi’s 1000 Lashes: The Medical Implications Of Flogging
Freedom from Torture’s head of doctors, Juliet Cohen, describes the medical implications of flogging and discusses the specifics of the case of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi. Background: Judicial corporal […]
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What matters — medicine, culture, and the space in between
Guddi Vijaya Rani Singh is a Medact member and a doctor training in paediatrics in London. She also has a masters in Public Health from Harvard University and has worked […]
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Waking up to the planetary health emergency: let’s divest from fossil fuels.
Zoe is a Medact member. She is also part of Divest London – a network hub for the global grassroots movement pushing institutions to divest from the fossil fuel industry […]
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The Courage to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Judith McDonald is an active member of Medact and has been so for many years. She recently attended the civil society forum that preceded the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian […]
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The Austrian Pledge: Blog from the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
by John Loretz The Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons concluded today with a major step forward for ICAN and all those States that are now ready to […]