Over the last six months, Medact has been developing a project looking at the long-term health impacts of recruiting adolescents into the UK armed forces. The UK is one of […]
As a public health charity committed to a safer, fairer and better world, Medact has a reputable history of promoting peace and studying the effects of war, conflict and violence […]
Minute’s silence, Monday 16th of November 2015 11:00 GMT At its London meeting, the Board of Directors of IPPNW decided to join the minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims of […]
On Sunday November 22, during World Antibiotics Awareness Week, 20 senior representatives from health and medical organisations, including Medact, co-signed a letter, published in the Times, calling on the UK […]
Armed conflict and militarisation pose grave and escalating threats to health worldwide and must be tackled urgently, warned a coalition of leading health, peace, development and security organisations at a […]
European health groups, including Medact, today launched new educational materials to educate nurses, doctors, students and others on the health aspects of war, violence and armed conflict. The new case […]
IPPNW press statement, September 17, 2015 IPPNW medical practitioners from 15 European countries appealed today to Presidents Poroshenko and Putin, the European Parliament and the OSCE to help lift the […]
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko European Parliament (contact group with Ukraine) Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe, Head of the OSCE monitoring […]
Medact strongly objects to new legislation passed by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, enabling force-feeding of prisoners and detainees on hunger strike. Medact supports the Israel Medical Association’s principled opposition, […]
One year on from the British Medical Association’s decision to divest from fossil fuels, the health divestment movement celebrates a year of success with three other health organisations having followed […]