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MdM voices its positions and recommendations through press releases that you can find in this section. We also can sign joint statements (other press releases). You can also read the testimonies from the field or from MdM staff.
Targets of the World
International humanitarian law is being flouted on a daily basis. In areas that are suffering, doctors and nursing staff are now being targeted. This is despite the fact that on 3 May 2016, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution strongly condemning acts of violence, attacks and threats directed at ill and injured patients, nursing staff, […]
Mental health and psychosocial impacts of occupation-related violence in Palestine
Médecins du Monde France (MdM) has been working in Palestine since 1996, and is currently focusing its activities in North West Bank on psychosocial programs aiming at preventing and limiting the psychosocial impacts of occupation related violence on Palestinian communities within Nablus, Qalqilya, Salfit and North Jordan Valley in Tubas governorates. Read more >MdM_MHPSS Eng
Whole-of-Syria health cluster briefing
As the Syria crisis has entered its seventh year, health needs across the country have never been so acute. The lack of availability and access to health care services inside Syria has led to unnecessary suffering and many preventable deaths. The 5th of April Brussels conference is an opportunity for states to ensure Syria population […]
Syria Regional Crisis- Health Access Monitor – March 2017
The Syria Regional Crisis Health Access Monitor is a Médecins du Monde quarterly publication that provides insight on the main barriers that prevent populations from accessing healthcare services inside Syria and in the neighbouring countries (Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey). Read here Health Access Monitor – Syria Regional Crisis_March
AIDA – Media Release : Khan El Ahmar
A Palestinian Bedouin community is at imminent risk of forcible transfer, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, if the Israeli government acts on military orders to demolish an entire village in the Occupied West Bank, as early as this Sunday. A coalition of over 80 international humanitarian, development and human rights organizations is […]
Making the case for strategic resettlement from Lebanon
As part of a comprehensive approach to the refugee crisis in Lebanon, alongside ongoing humanitarian support, increased development investment and job creation initiatives, and calling for necessary domestic policy changes with respect to refugee residency and access to livelihood opportunities for Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, UN Member States must expand resettlement and humanitarian admissions […]
Syria: “Stand and Deliver”
On 4 February 2016, the international community agreed on a ‘comprehensive new approach’ to address the protracted Syria crisis at the “Supporting Syria and the Region” Conference in London. Donors, and neighbouring countries, which host the vast majority of those who have fled Syria, committed to significant financial pledges and policy changes to improve the […]
Access restricted areas in Gaza – Civilians at risks
Since 2014, MdM – France is working alongside gazans farmers and fishermen in the access restricted areas, where shootings regularly put life of civilians at risk and continuously infringe human rights and international law. Read more>LEALET-PALESTINE-HD-PAGES
SYRIA: VIOLENCE AGAINST HEALTHCARE, A DISMAL RECORD
SYRIA: VIOLENCE AGAINST HEALTHCARE, A DISMAL RECORD The worst year. Despite a new UN resolution strongly condemning attack against medical units and personnel, deliberated attacks against hospitals, doctors, and patients in Syria have reached an unprecedented level in 2016. Breaches of International Humanitarian Law have become commonplace, and impunity the norm. ANOTHER YEAR OF CONTINUOUS […]
Uniting for Peace in Syria: Global Civil Society Appeal to UN Member States
The UN Security Council has failed Syrians. In almost six years of conflict, close to half a million people have been killed and eleven million have been forced to leave their homes. Most recently, the Syrian and Russian governments and their allies have carried out unlawful attacks on eastern Aleppo with scant regard for some […]
Syria: No hospital left in eastern Aleppo. Medical evacuation not allowed
All hospitals in eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of continuous air strikes. 250,000 people are deprived from life-saving care, and yet medical evacuation is not allowed. Earlier in October, parties to the conflict failed to agree on how the medical evacuation from east Aleppo should proceed. As the situation deteriorated, UN […]