Border crossing and death
This morning the BBC highlighted the number of women, children and men dying as they try to cross from Mexico to the US. Mortuaries in Arizona report large numbers of undentified bodies that […]
Till when?
The tragedy about genocides, ethnic cleansing or simply the wanton destruction of civilians is not that it happens, but that it is allowed to happen. As Rwanda and the world […]
The price of inaction
The UN has reported that the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has now surpassed the one million mark. The likelihood of Lebanon being able to cope with this […]
A two way lifeline
The number of migrants losing their lives while trying to reach EU shores has never been as high. The most recent estimate is that 80.000 have died in the last […]
Working with the police to solve a global challenge
On 26th September, one hundred and twenty two judiciary police officers of the Congolese National Police Force graduated from an innovative program being run by ICMHD to help fight gender based violence […]
Addressing the burden of HIV/AIDS in military and mine workers
UNAIDS has recently published a global report on the AIDS epidemic which claimed that the number of new HIV infections among adults and children has dropped by 33%. This decrease […]
Polio eradication setbacks in endemic countries
Polio vaccination campaign in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan Photo: Reuters Polio is a highly infectious disease for which there is no cure. The virus is transmitted through contaminated food and […]
