International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Here's to the elimination of racial discrimination, once and for all.
Zarbibi and Maysaa are Two Brave Women.
Zarbibi and Maysaa are two brave women. To them, and all the women who fight every day to improve the world, we dedicate this #InternationalWomenDay2020
Scientific Contribution is Not Only a Matter of Research and Numbers, But Also Sharing Expertise Among Colleagues.
Scientific contribution is not only a matter of research and numbers, but also sharing expertise among colleagues.
EMERGENCY STATEMENT ON THE ONGOING SITUATION IN GREECE “IT’S TIME FOR EUROPE TO CHANGE COURSE”
“Police use tear gas against migrants attempting to cross the Greek border. The coast guard shoot at a refugee boat. Far-right militants use sticks and rocks to attack migrants on the Greek islands. The Prime Minister announces the suspension of…
EMERGENCY Breaks Down Walls By Building Them
📌 As our President Rossella Miccio once wrote, there are walls, and then there are walls: walls of exclusion, tearing people apart, but also walls of inclusion, bringing people together, defeating differences and discrimination. EMERGENCY's hospitals are made of walls,…
AFGHANISTAN: Moving Towards Peace Talks?
Yesterday, we received 12 wounded patients at EMERGENCY's Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul. At around 7pm local time, two bicycle bombs went off in the city centre, hitting dozens of people, some of them young pupils from a local school. The attack followed another the…
‘I Can’t Begin To Describe EMERGENCY.’
There are people who dedicate themselves to this organisation for years. Laura is one of them. She’s been with us since 2009. Laura is a nurse. We met her in a ward at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery. What she said took…
Even in War, Something Powerful Endures: Love
Today is Valentine’s Day in Iraq too, and there’s something powerful here, resisting war, violence, danger and fear. It’s called love.
Roberto, How Are You?
I realise my plane is touching down on the runway in Italy. All I can do is repeat to myself the promise I’ve always made to our colleagues back in Afghanistan, and which I intend to keep: to return.
They were asking me if this was really Italy
That is their right, as it is for any other human being.