Wars, Conflicts & Occupation

The Global Crisis and People’s Health

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In a forum on The Global Crisis and People’s Health, held in Balay Kalinaw at the University of the Philippines in Diliman last July 31, health activists pointed out that further militarization pose the greatest threat to health and peace.

The month of July ended with news on climate change, war, violence, militarization and emergence of new forms of diseases.

Call for WHO to investigate Iraq War: Break the Silence demands PHM!

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The People’s Health Movement has called upon the WHO to break its silence on the growing number of casualties and collapse of public health systems in Iraq due to the US occupation.

Public Health Disaster Faces Northern Gaza Strip as Sewage Treatment Plant Floods Village, Killing 6

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Ramallah, 27-03-07: Six Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip today, drowned in a flood of sewage that swept over the village of Um Al Nasser in the Northern Gaza Strip as the banks of a nearby waste water treatment pool burst. Two elderly women, two children and a teenage girl were amongst the dead.

Four years into the occupation: No health for Iraq

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Iraq’s health status, four years into the occupation, is nothing short of disastrous.

WHO Chief's Stand on Generic Drugs Slammed

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BANGKOK, Feb 2 (IPS) - Civil society and humanitarian groups slammed the new head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on the sidelines of a meeting here, after she appeared to favour the interests of pharmaceutical giants over the plight of the sick and the poor in the developing world.

Urgent Appeal from Palestine

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For the fifth consecutive day, the Israeli military forces continue its invasion to Beit Hanoun north of Gaza Strip. The number of victims has reached 47 of the civil citizens; while more than 200 were injured (half of them are women and children). According to the statistics of the Palestinian Ministry of Health 42 of the injured are children, 40 are women, and 2 from the working medical teams.

Gaza: ICRC deplores the death of two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers carrying out their humanitarian duties

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Geneva / Tel Aviv (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the death on 3 November of two Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedics in the Gaza Strip and is deeply shocked and saddened by this event. The two died from injuries received while performing their life-saving humanitarian work during a military operation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

PMRS Urgent Appeal to End Gaza Carnage: 47 Gazans Killed, including more than 21 Civilians, in 5 Days of Israeli Bloodshed

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Ramallah, 05-11-06: PMRS urgently appeals to its friends and partners around the world to take immediate action to bring an end to 5 days of carnage in the northern Gaza Strip, in which at least 47 Gazans have been killed, more than 21 of whom were mostly civilians, including 7 children, 3 women, and 3 paramedics, since Israel began its bloody re-invasion of Beit Hanoun last Wednesday. A 12-year-girl was killed by a single shot to the head from an Israeli sniper in Beit Hanoun on Saturday evening.

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