One year since a ceasefire was announced in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of thousands of people are still living in tents or makeshift shelters, with limited access to drinking water, medical care and essential supplies. Attacks continue to cause casualties and injuries, whilst the flow of humanitarian aid remains insufficient. EMERGENCY continues to provide free […]

Under a European Union-funded programme also involving Johanniter International Assistance, UK-Med and the local organisation Eleos-Ukraine, the EU is providing EMERGENCY with 1,162,488 EUR to support access to care for vulnerable people in frontline oblasts of Ukraine, while strengthening and improving the sustainability of the primary healthcare system of a country that continues to endure […]

This afternoon at the Italian port of Ortona, in Abruzzo, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support disembarked 28 people who had been rescued on Thursday 30 July, in international waters within the Maltese SAR zone. “We arrived at the port of Ortona after four days at sea,” comments Jonathan Nanì La Terra, Head of […]

“A Blueprint For Complicity” Three Years On, the EU-Tunisia Deal Continues to Fuel Human Rights Violations Joint Statement by 46 human rights and humanitarian organizations Three years since the signature of the European Union (EU)-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the agreement has not only failed to guarantee respect for refugees and migrants’ rights, it has […]

EMERGENCY has opened two new primary healthcare clinics in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region. In the towns of Barvinkove and Blyzniuky, situated close to the front lines, access to primary care is increasingly difficult due to the worsening war while the needs of the most vulnerable people continue to grow. EMERGENCY’s new clinics will offer free […]

EMERGENCY’s Kabul Surgical Centre has admitted nine people following overnight attacks by Pakistan in the provinces of Paktia, Paktika and Kunar. The figures remain provisional. “So far, we have admitted nine injured people at our hospital, four of whom are children,” explains Viktor Urosevic, EMERGENCY’s Programme Coordinator in Afghanistan. “All the patients have undergone surgery. […]

Several confirmed and hundreds of suspected cases of Ebola have been detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak “a public health emergency of international concern.” EMERGENCY – which in Uganda operates the Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, 40 km from Kampala – has […]