by Rob Abrams | Feb 26, 2021 | Current Campaigns, Climate & Environment
Health for a Green New Deal is building a grassroots-powered health movement for a just and green society, one that prioritises the health of people and planet. All those who work in or study health are welcome to join us and help build the movement!
by Reem Abu-Hayyeh | Jul 2, 2020 | Campaigns, Current Campaigns, Work Areas, Peace & Security
A number of policing and counter-extremism measures are embedded by the government into UK health services, at times requiring health workers to work closely with the police and other security agencies. In the case of the Prevent duty in the NHS, health workers are...
by Medact | Apr 25, 2020 | Current Campaigns, Work Areas
Steps we’ve taken at Medact The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into stark relief the serious health inequalities that exist both in the UK and across the world. In recent months we have adjusted our approach to campaigning by moving our work online and giving more focus...
by James Skinner | Oct 27, 2018 | Campaigns, Current Campaigns, Human Rights
Get involved with the Patients Not Passports campaign!
by Medact Staff | Jun 5, 2018 | Campaigns, Current Campaigns, Work Areas, Human Rights, Peace & Security
The right of everyone to ‘the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health’ is enshrined within the 1966 UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) placing both a moral and a legal imperative on the UK to produce policies...
by Alice Munro | Jun 1, 2018 | Campaigns, Current Campaigns, Climate & Environment
Doctors Against Diesel are calling for the use of diesel fuels to be banned in our urban areas and progressively phased out elsewhere. We want to see a future in which personal exposure to soot and gases from vehicles is dramatically reduced, and that a choice to travel actively (walking, cycling, with public transport) does not result in increased personal exposure.
by Medact Staff | Sep 2, 2017 | Campaigns, Current Campaigns, Work Areas, Peace & Security
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, most indiscriminate, most inhumane instruments of mass murder ever created. Their use—and even their possession—goes against every principle of international humanitarian law. In fact, it is likely that humanity could not...
by Reem Abu-Hayyeh | Oct 18, 2016 | Campaigns, Current Campaigns, Work Areas, Peace & Security
The international arms trade is in direct opposition to efforts to protect and pursue the health of our world and its inhabitants. Not only does military expenditure steal funds away from health systems, climate change solutions, social development and essential...
by Rhianna Louise | Dec 7, 2015 | Campaigns, Current Campaigns, Work Areas, Peace & Security
Intentional and direct attacks on hospitals are war crimes, and denying people access to essential health care is a serious violation of international humanitarian law – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 3 May 20161 According to a study by the World Health...
