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  • Syria’s double refugees: Palestinians forced to risk everything to reach Europe

    Syria’s double refugees: Palestinians forced to risk everything to reach Europe

    Rohan Talbot is Campaigns and Media Officer at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), a partner organisation in the Health through Peace movement.  The Medact Refugee Solidarity Group (MRSG)** supports MAP’s campaign […]

  • The Health Impacts of the Small Arms Trade

    The Health Impacts of the Small Arms Trade

    By Oliver Yerby, member of the Medact Arms and Militarisation (MAM) group.* Oliver is a fourth year medical student studying in Nottingham with a particular interest in peacebuilding, human rights […]

  • Healthy Planet, Better World

    Healthy Planet, Better World

    Thank you to everyone who joined us over the two days Videos and slides from presentations are available below. View the full event programme.

  • The City of Hiroshima – Peace Declaration

    The City of Hiroshima – Peace Declaration

    Medact has received a letter from the Mayor of the City of Hiroshima, along with a copy of their Peace Declaration. The Medact Hiroshima Appeal 2016 has just been launched, and it will enable […]

  • Nagasaki, and the futility of history’s only nuclear weapons attacks

    Nagasaki, and the futility of history’s only nuclear weapons attacks

    With thanks to Medact Trustee Frank Boulton Nagasaki: a catalogue of errors Seventy one years ago in the early hours of August 9, the mission to drop a second atomic […]

  • Paper crane folding day for Hiroshima commemoration

    To be held at Jesmond Library St Georges Terrace Jesmond Newcastle upon Tyne

  • Our response to Trident renewal

    Our response to Trident renewal

    On Monday (July 18th, 2016), the UK Parliament voted to renew Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons system, on which around 6% of the annual defence budget is currently spent. The hours […]

  • Dr Frank Boulton’s speech at the CND Trident Renewal Protest

    Dr Frank Boulton’s speech at the CND Trident Renewal Protest

    Speech by Frank Boulton, Medact Trustee and member of the Medact Nuclear Weapons Group, at the CND Emergency Demonstration against Trident renewal on 18 July 2016. “I worked in the […]

  • Health and Health Policy in Iraq

    Health and Health Policy in Iraq

    Three of the authors of this series of reports have collaborated on a response to the release of the findings of the Chilcot inquiry Medact has produced a total of […]

  • Iraq, Medact and Chilcot

    Iraq, Medact and Chilcot

    This piece was written in response to the release of the findings of the Chilcot inquiry by former Medact Directors Mike Rowson and Marion Birch, along with Jane Salvage, who all worked […]

  • Medact response to the Chilcot Report

    Medact response to the Chilcot Report

    Rhianna Louise, Peace and Security Project Officer at Medact Ben Clavey, Coordinator of the Medact Arms Control Group With thanks to Ben Griffin, Coordinator of Veterans for Peace UK, Peace […]