In association with the Medact Preventing Torture initiative, the Global Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine will be hosting a series of training sessions for clinicians who are called upon to produce medico-legal reports give oral evidence about survivors of torture. These will be half-day sessions, open and participation will be free of […]
QPSW, ICAN-UK and Religions for Peace invite you to Friends House, Euston, London for an afternoon of training and discussion on the humanitarian initiative on nuclear weapons 1.30pm – 5pm on Saturday 25th October 2014 Come and learn about the latest developments moving the international community towards a treaty to ban nuclear weapons as […]
Global Health Justice (GHJ) is a new public lecture and discussion series organised by the London-based charity Medact and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) focusing on the socio-political determinants of health. GHJ aims to bring a strong social science and humanities perspective to global health and provide a space for students, campaigners and academics to discuss, debate and exchange […]
Medact, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics would like to invite you to a day seminar on Thursday 30 October at the Royal Society of Medicine. While the medical and human health community is fast recognising the need for greater antibiotic stewardship in the human health care setting and […]
MANA – Musicians for Peace presents a Concert For Peace Click here to book your ticket
Follow us on twitter @thepeoplevspfi and help spread the word by using the #PPLvsPFI hashtag PFI – The Biggest Scam You’ve Never Heard Of You’d never be able to tell from the outside, but hundreds of our hospitals, schools, prisons roads and even homes are no longer controlled by us, the people. Why? Because politicians have […]
This year’s forum, chaired by Gill Walt, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a long term Patron of Medact, was in partnership with Health Poverty Action, a London based international NGO. HPA, whose social justice approach to health mirrors that of Medact, works with the most marginalised communities in […]
Details: The risks and consequences associated with nuclear weapons are much higher than previously acknowledged. Investigative journalist and author Eric Schlosser will describe some of the findings in his book Command and Control, which tells the story of Cold War ‘near-misses’ using exclusive and recently de-classified documents and interviews. Humanitarian disarmament expert Thomas Nash will outline the exciting international […]
Global Health Justice (GHJ) is a new public lecture and discussion series organised by the London-based charity Medact and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) focusing on the socio-political determinants of health. GHJ aims to bring a strong social science and humanities perspective to global health and provide a space for students, campaigners and academics to discuss, debate and exchange […]
A tribute to Manning, Assange and Snowden, organised and sponsored by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino and his supporters, Charles Glass, Laure Boulay, Marco Benagli and Jean Michel Boissier. This evening of tributes, talks, film, food and drinks is for all Frontline Club members and their guests. It coincides with a simultaneous celebration at Shakespeare and Company […]