Health & Human Rights Research Network Quarterly
We’re relaunching the Health & Human Rights strand of the Medact Research Network! These quarterly meetings will be a space for us to come together, share our work, discuss new projects, or delve into deep discussion about research that has caught your interest.
UK counterterror mental health project raises ethical concerns
Al Jazeera reported our latest publication – ‘Racism, mental health & pre-crime policing: the ethics of Vulnerability Support Hubs’.
Counterterror project that has assessed children as young as six ‘raises serious ethical concerns’
Sky News reported on our latest publication – ‘Racism, mental health & pre-crime policing: the ethics of Vulnerability Support Hubs’.
Mental health tests in the presence of counter-terror units ‘unethical’, says charity
The Guardian covered our latest report – ‘Racism, mental health & pre-crime policing: the ethics of Vulnerability Support Hubs’.
Take Them to Court! How the Law Can Help in Creating Structural Change for Migrant Justice
Our Access to Healthcare Campaigns and Programme Lead, James Skinner, is speaking at a seminar on how legal knowledge and tools can be used to help build wider movements and create social change, organised by Migrants Organise and UCL Centre Access to Justice. James...Kill The Bill National Day of Action
Join us this Saturday as we stand with people across the country taking action to #KillTheBill. The Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill is a dangerous and harmful piece of legislation that threatens out right to protest, directly attacks Gypsy, Roma and Traveller...Why We All Have a Duty to Kill The Bill
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) is a dangerous piece of legislation that undermines our fundamental rights, threatens all our safety, and implicates health workers in the expansion of violent police powers. Medact and Docs Not Cops have joined the...What happens when public health & immigration debates clash?
Members of our Migrant Solidarity Group will be speaking at The UCL Centre for Gender and Global Health’s final webinar of their Borderings series. Find out more and register your placeAccess to healthcare, borders in the NHS and NHS charging
Medact Sheffield and the Justice for Simba Campaign are speaking at this event with the excellent SYMAAG on Thursday 29th April at 7.00pm. The event will focus on the different ways in which the hostile environment permeates into the NHS in the form of charging, data...The hostile environment is damaging vaccine rollouts
Huck magazine covered our Vaccines For All Campaign in an article discussing the damage the Hostile Environment is causing to the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout.