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Refugee Week
Refugee WeekWatch this video on YouTube
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Health Through Peace Cornwall
Medact believes that health professionals have an important role to play in working towards peace and a more sustainable idea of security. In November 2015, we ran the ‘Health Through […]
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Health Through Peace Skillshare
On April 9th, we’re holding a Health Through Peace Skillshare, where you can gain some campaigning skills and connect with the current Health Through Peace action groups. 10.00 – 10.30: Welcome and […]
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Forum 2016 – Healthy Planet, Better World
Human health is dependent on a healthy environment. Yet we are damaging ecosystems and depleting natural resources in ways that undermine our ability to sustain healthy and equitable societies. Climate […]
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Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre
Written by Medact members Rebecca Cousins and Pauline Latil. On Saturday 12th of March, the Medact Refugee Solidarity Group joined Movement for Justice by Any Means Necessary and gathered alongside two […]
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Refugee Solidarity Group in Calais
From the 20th – 24th February, two members of Medact’s new Refugee Solidarity Group went to volunteer in the so-called Calais ‘Jungle’. This is the first of a series of […]
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Killing for Peace – launch of Medact Brighton
Chair: Centre for applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton Speaker 1. (Veterans for Peace) Modern war on the ground Speaker 2. (Brighton University) Modern war from the air […]
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Support Refugees Group Meeting
On Monday 15th February at 18.30, we’re holding the first meeting of the new ‘health through peace’ Support Refugees group. If you would like to be part of this group […]
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Responding to the Needs of Refugees
This is the text from an editorial jointly published in The BMJ by Medact, Doctors Of The World UK, Helen Bamber Foundation, and Freedom From Torture. At the time of writing […]
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Health Through Peace 2015
“A HEALTHY WORLD MEANS A MORE PEACEFUL AND JUST WORLD.” – Richard Horton, Editor of the Lancet WHAT IS ‘HEALTH THROUGH PEACE’? The Health Through Peace conference was organised by […]
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Health Through Peace Lecture – John Ashton and Andrew Feinstein
To close the first day of the Health Through Peace forum, Medact is honoured to present an evening with Andrew Feinstein, former South African MP and author of ‘The Shadow […]