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Wars and peace in Kazakhstan
By Tony Waterston “What has International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) achieved anyway?” The question posed at a workshop on primary prevention needed answering, since the 21st IPPNW Congress […]
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Hiroshima Day Appeal 2014
These images are taken from a bigger collection of historical material on the history of the medical peace movement in the UK. This material has been archived by the Wellcome Library. […]
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Safe and Legal Abortions: A Woman’s Right to Choose
Sophie Turton on how Doctors of the World’s ‘Names not Numbers’ campaign is calling on the international community to speak out about the 300,000 women who die every year from pregnancy-related […]
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The Prohibition of Abortion is Killing Women
Every ten minutes a woman dies because of an unsafe abortion. MdM France is now collecting direct signatures from medical doctors for the statement below in addition to Doctors of the World’s […]
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Reviving the Medical Peace Movement
Dear Friends and Colleagues, On the 6th August 1945, 70,000 people in Hiroshima were killed almost instantly by the Atom bomb. Another 70,000 were fatally injured. Local hospitals were destroyed and their […]
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Charging for non-EEA migrants’ access to the NHS—who will be charged next?
by Johanna Hanefeld and Richard SmithThe UK government has recently announced that it will in future charge migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and foreign visitors a 150% […]
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Gaza Appeal
Medact has been working with Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-I) to put together a team of medical expert to conduct an urgent independent fact-finding mission to Gaza. Thus far we […]
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Open Letter: for the people in Gaza
Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect […]
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Open Letter: Support the opposition to force feeding of hunger strikers in Israel
Mark Porter chair BMA, David McCoy chair Medact, Cornelius Katona medical director, Helen Bamber Foundation, Iain Chalmers coordinator, James Lind Initiative , Frank Arnold coordinator, Medact preventing torture working group The Israeli parliament, the […]
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Guppi Bola on How Medact is going to help get the UK Eating Better
Earlier this week, Medact joined the likes of Friends of the Earth, Food Ethics Council, Oxfam and the Soil Association as supporting members of the Eating Better Network. Guppi Bola, Medact’s Climate and Ecology Coordinator explains our plans and how they fit nicely into the fair, green, healthy food scene.
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Update: Urgent Call for a Forensic Pathologist and Medical Experts for a Fact-Finding Mission to Gaza.
Medact and its partner Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) are seeking medical experts for an urgent independent fact-finding mission to travel as soon as possible into Gaza for collection of evidence regarding: […]