An open call to all UN Member States to stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life. We, the undersigned organisations, call on all States to...
On World Humanitarian Day, health and human rights organizations demand accountability for violations of international humanitarian law in Jenin, including lack of protection for medical personnel...
As the Israeli healthcare system begins the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines to the Israeli public, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Israeli authorities to live up to their legal...
The use of heavy explosive weapons in the cities of Ganja and Stepanakert, and other towns and populated areas in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is killing and injuring civilians, and destroying vital...
With over 250 identified COVID-19 Palestinian patients in the West Bank and potentially dozens in the Gaza Strip we, the undersigned organizations, express grave concern in the face of a potential...
Executive Summary and Recommendations This report considers the broad humanitarian problems arising from the use of "explosive weapons" - weapons that cause injury, death or damage by projecting...
(extract) A health system under pressure The demands on the Iraqi health system have increased considerably since 2003, including trauma and mental illness. Numerous reports document poor and...
From Medair Sudan (Northern States) -- Medair runs an innovative pilot project that introduces bio-sand filters to a community in Southern Kordofan Two months ago, Awad Abbas and his family began...
Conflict fuels Iraqi health crisis This Update, by Kingston Reif, contains new information about the state of health and healthcare in Iraq. It is the latest in a series of reports in which Medact...
There have been a number of significant developments in Iraq since Medact published Enduring Effects of War: Health in Iraq 2004 at the end of November (1). Publication coincided with the...