Refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs: a record 110 million people are displaced worldwide, forced to flee because of persecution, conflict, climate change and human rights violations. On World Refugee Day, we recognise the dangers and extreme difficulties that migrants face as…
Achiek was just 8 months old when he accidentally spilled boiling tea on his hand. The little boy lives with his mother in Bur, South Sudan, where the healthcare system struggles because of insufficient infrastructure and an acute shortage of…
Meet Mohamad Osman, one of the nurses here at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul. Mohamad has been working at our hospital for 17 years, first in the intensive care unit and now as Team Leader of the children’s ward. He…
G. and her two-year-old son were rescued by Life Support while crossing the Central Mediterranean, the world’s deadliest migration route. "The father of my son is now in Libya," the 22-year-old Eritrean told us. "We wanted to rescue little N…
COVID-19 RESPONSE IN AFRICA AND THE COVAX MECHANISM VOICES FROM THE FIELD: SIERRA LEONE, SUDAN, UGANDA
"THE ENGINE BROKE DOWN. I WAS PANICKING BUT I WOULD NEVER GO BACK BECAUSE IN LIBYA YOU RISK YOUR LIFE EVERY DAY." "THE FATHER OF MY SON IS STILL IN LIBYA. WE WANTED TO RESCUE OUR LITTLE ONE FROM THAT…
COGS IN THE WHEEL OF PEACE Introduction by Rossella Miccio, President of EMERGENCY, in the 2022 Report Frontiers – physical and moral. Like the ones invaded, criminally, by Russia on 24 February 2022, or the ones constructed to keep migrants…
One hypothesis could be that the engine has started working again and the boat is sailing towards Sicily, but we have no evidence of this.
On 30 March, EMERGENCY and CRIMEDIM released the report Access to Care in Afghanistan. While certain conditions like geographic mobility have improved in the country as fighting has subsided, many barriers remain to accessing care – especially for children like…
