by Medact Staff | Dec 11, 2015 | News, Peace & Security
Over the last six months, Medact has been developing a project looking at the long-term health impacts of recruiting adolescents into the UK armed forces. The UK is one of a handful of countries worldwide, and the only country in Europe or amongst the UN Security...
by Medact Staff | Dec 2, 2015 | News, Peace & Security
As a public health charity committed to a safer, fairer and better world, Medact has a reputable history of promoting peace and studying the effects of war, conflict and violence on the health of adults and children across the world. We argued against the war in Iraq...
by Medact Staff | Nov 24, 2015 | News, Peace & Security
Minute’s silence, Monday 16th of November 2015 11:00 GMT At its London meeting, the Board of Directors of IPPNW decided to join the minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims of terror and war, which was held all across Europe mindful of the dreadful acts of...
by Medact Staff | Nov 14, 2015 | Press Releases
Armed conflict and militarisation pose grave and escalating threats to health worldwide and must be tackled urgently, warned a coalition of leading health, peace, development and security organisations at a conference in London today. The event – organised by Medact...
by Medact Staff | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog
Tilman Ruff, an expert on immunization who consults with the WHO and the Australian Red Cross, is Co-President of IPPNW and former president of the Australian affiliate, MAPW. He serves as an IPPNW representative on the international steering committee of ICAN, and...
by Medact Staff | Sep 21, 2015 | News
European health groups, including Medact, today launched new educational materials to educate nurses, doctors, students and others on the health aspects of war, violence and armed conflict. The new case studies form part of the Medical Peace Work framework and depict...
by Medact Staff | Sep 17, 2015 | News
IPPNW press statement, September 17, 2015 IPPNW medical practitioners from 15 European countries appealed today to Presidents Poroshenko and Putin, the European Parliament and the OSCE to help lift the blockade of Donbass and allow free access to humanitarian...
by Medact Staff | Sep 17, 2015 | News
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko European Parliament (contact group with Ukraine) Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe, Head of the OSCE monitoring mission, Alexander HugDear Mr Presidents, Ladies...
by Medact Staff | Sep 16, 2015 | Actions, Peace & Security
Dr Rosemary Field To Philip Dunne MP Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) Email: [email protected] Re: DSEI 15-18 September 2015 I am writing to you on behalf of the Nuclear Weapons Group of Medact, the UK affiliate of International Physicians for the...
by Medact Staff | Sep 11, 2015 | Blog, Human Rights, Peace & Security
Photo: Blocked by rail, migrant’s walk through Hungary to reach Germany and Austria. The first week of this September month has seen an extra-ordinary set of responses to the mass-migration of various peoples toward Western Europe. Peter Sutherland, the UN...
by Medact Staff | Aug 12, 2015 | Blog
by IPPNW [IPPNW co-presidents Ira Helfand and Vladimir Garkavenko have sent the following letter to Presidents Barack Obama of the United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia, expressing the Federation’s concern over the continuing conflict in Ukraine between two...
