| Call for womens rights to be respected on International Women's Day | Darfur team evacuated and mission on hold | Haiti: committed to helping victims in the long-term |
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The 8th March 2010 is International Women's Day. We are calling for women's rights to be respected on campaigns we support: Read our report by our Guatemalan team. It highlights the appalling conditions for the largely female workforce in the country's factories. Meanwhile, almost half a million women every year die of preventable pregnancy-related illnesses. We are backing the Action for Global Health's plea for the government to make sure the Millenium Development Goals are met to reduce this. ..More |
We have been forced to suspend our healthcare programmes in Darfur due to fighting. Our international staff have been evacuated from the area until safe access is restored. Dr Jerome Larche, head of mission in Sudan is very concerned: "We urge the Sudanese government and the UN to give us the security assurances required to re-enter the area immediately. Our assessment teams urgently need access before this already catastrophic humanitarian disaster gets any worse. In the meantime we are preparing for an emergency intervention." ..More |
Our operation in Haiti continues with over 65 expatriate staff and 340 local staff. Surgical work has now ceased but we are now running 25 mobile clinics in addition to other programmes which continue to help victims of the earthquake. ..More |
Righting the Health Millenium Development Goals
Doctors of the World UK has joined the joint NGO Vote Global Manifesto, where health is highlighted as a key human right for everyone and a public service that UK aid needs to support.
The UK has demonstrated consistent leadership on international development and global health. In 2010, with just five years left to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), urgent action is still needed.
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