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Prevent duty in NHS ─ October planning meeting

by Reem Abu-Hayyeh | Oct 6, 2020 | Events, Meetings, Online, Peace & Security

An online meeting to discuss the ways that health workers can take action on issues related to the Prevent duty in the NHS.

IPPNW World Congress XXIII: Disarmament, Development and Health [POSTPONED]

by Reem Abu-Hayyeh | May 25, 2020 | Events, Conferences, Peace & Security

Sadly the IPPNW 23rd World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya has had to be postponed. New dates have not yet been set as we will be monitoring the worldwide health situation.

On Tasers, policing and imagining new responses to violence

by Sarah Lasoye | Oct 18, 2019 | Blog, Headlines, Peace & Security

With the recent announcement of Tasers being made more widely available for use by the police in the UK, black feminist organiser and Global Health postgraduate Sarah Lasoye argues that the health community must take notice.

Is there a place for civil nuclear power in the 21st century?

by Frank Boulton | Oct 14, 2019 | Blog, Headlines, Climate & Environment

To correspond with the recent publication of the IPPNW-Germany paper ‘How Nuclear Power powers the Bomb’, we publish a blog by Frank Boulton outlining the financial, environmental, health and geo-political arguments around nuclear power.

‘Do No Harm’ – a meeting about war, the arms trade and health

by Reem Abu-Hayyeh | Sep 30, 2019 | Events, Meetings, Talks & Lectures, Peace & Security

After joining protests outside the DSEI arms fair earlier this month, we are holding a meeting to discuss the arms trade, war and health.

By supporting arms sales, our government abets murder

by Dan Flecknoe | Sep 12, 2019 | Blog, Peace & Security

With the DSEI arms fair underway, Daniel Flecknoe and Dr Ahmed Razavi outline the public health impacts of armed conflict, and argue that the UK government’s sale of arms to countries such as Saudi Arabia makes them an accessory to war crimes.

Turkish doctors sentenced to prison for statement against war

by Reem Abu-Hayyeh | Aug 13, 2019 | Headlines, News, Human Rights, Peace & Security

In response to the sentencing of 11 Turkish doctors to 20 months in prison for a statement made against the military offensive in Afrin, Syria, Medact has urged the UK Foreign Secretary to take action.  “War is a man-made public health problem.” It is these words,...

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