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Medact investigates health impacts of under-18 recruitment into UK armed forces
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 […]
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Medact warns against British air strikes in Syria
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 […]
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IPPNW holds Minute of Silence for victims of terror and war
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 […]
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Act now to address urgent threats posed by escalating armed conflict and militarisation, say health experts
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 […]
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Annual Report 2014/15
Medact Annual Report 2014-15
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A “healthy end” to the nuclear era: interview with Tilman Ruff
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 […]
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European health groups launch peace education case studies
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 […]
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End the blockade of Donbass: Humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine
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 […]
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IPPNW Appeal on humanitarian relief in the conflict in Ukraine
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 […]
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Letter: DSEI and Britain’s obligation under the arms trade treaty
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 […]
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Europe's migrant crisis: what's to be done?
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 […]