Land and Sea: Rights Denied Everywhere
The clock had just struck two when the head of our mission came to tell me there was a dinghy drifting a few miles from the ship. Just a few hours before we had been told a dinghy had capsized,…
10th December: Human Rights Day
To really change things, you have to choose which side to take. A right denied to one person is a right denied to all. HUMAN RIGHTS - ALWAYS. #HumanRightsDay
Our Bodies are Maps Of Pain
“Alhamdulillah,” Samad’s colleagues say in unison. “Thank God” indeed, that they are here and alive.
This Is The Desperation That Europe Continues To Ignore
This is the desperation that Europe continues to ignore.
Afghanistan: Women’s Empowerment and the European Foundation Centre
Today, EMERGENCY launched its Maternity Report, ‘A Quiet Revolution’, in Brussels. The European Foundation Centre hosted the event, which served as an opportunity to discuss an underrepresented aspect of Afghanistan, something that we have been contributing to since 2003. Peace,…
World Children’s Day 2019
Date: 20/11/1989 Event: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The world's most widely ratified agreement ever is signed. Global leaders commit to protecting children’s rights. Date: 20/11/2019 Event: World Children's Day 30 years later, children around the…
Afghanistan: “You are part of the history of this valley…”
“You are part of the history of this valley in Afghanistan, just as blood is part of the human body,” they told us. In Panjshir, Shahzia recalls the fear she felt before she gave birth to two twins and the…
ZAKHEM | WOUNDS: WHERE HOME COMES HOME. A Photographic Exhibition by Giulio Piscitelli
EMERGENCY is proud to announce that Giulio Piscitelli’s award-winning photographic exhibition Zakhem | Wounds: When War Comes Home is coming to London.
EMERGENCY presents the report ‘A QUIET REVOLUTION’ The EMERGENCY Anabah Maternity Centre and female empowerment.
‘A Quiet Revolution’ is EMERGENCY’s report analysing the impact that a free, specialist Maternity Centre can have on the health and societal role of the women who are part of it: both patients and staff.
