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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 […]
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EU Medical Peace Work
Medact is the UK-partner for the EU-funded Medical Peace Work project. Medical Peace Work is an emerging field of expertise in health work, violence prevention and peace building, and is […]
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Medical Peace Work Online Course
Medical Peace Work consists of seven online courses and a collection of teaching resources for medical peace education. They are free to all and are available on this website. The […]
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Support for doctors working in immigration detention centres
Torture and doctors’ dual obligation Support for doctors working in immigration detention centresIn recent years, colleagues and I have examined several hundred asylum seekers giving histories of torture but subjected […]
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Human Rights and Health Care at the Bleeding Edge
We live in a world where people’s basic human rights are being denied on an extraordinary scale. This raises immediate questions: who should try to do what about it? […]
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Global Health Justice Lecture – Conflict and Health
Global Health Justice (GHJ) is a new public lecture and discussion series organised by the London-based charity Medact and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) focusing on the socio-political determinants of health. GHJ aims to […]
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Forum 2014 – Health In Action
Click here to view the Forum recordings! Click here to join Medact On the day – Summary This year’s forum, chaired by Gill Walt, Emeritus Professor at the London School […]
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Take A Stand
A tribute to Manning, Assange and Snowden, organised and sponsored by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino and his supporters, Charles Glass, Laure Boulay, Marco Benagli and Jean Michel Boissier. This evening of […]
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Global Health Watch 4 – An Alternative World Health Report
The Global Health Watch is perceived widely as the definitive voice for an alternate discourse on health and health care. This 4th edition covers a range of issues that currently […]
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Training in the documentation of evidence of torture
In association with the Medact Preventing Torture initiative, the Global Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine will be hosting a series of training sessions for clinicians who are […]
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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 […]