Doctors from around the world unite to call for urgent climate action
Health bodies demand all governments immediately cease expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructure and production
Global health bodies are demanding international governments urgently phase out fossil fuels and fast-track renewable energy as health professionals increasingly see patients suffering from harm caused by climate change.
Interesting times. Well done these orgs for attempting to highlight the fundamental racism of UK #migration, #refugee and #asylum policies and discourse by making this obviously futile attempt to stir some sort of conscience out of UK politicians.
#RefugeeCouncil
#SafePassageInternational
#DoctorsOfTheWorld
#HelenBamberFoundarion
#CityOfSanctuary
#Palestine
#Gaza
#PublicHealth and #HumanRights vs inhumane #Immigration policies
‘#UK government has left us in no doubt that it is willing to violate human rights and harm people’s health in pursuit of its immigration agenda’
By #DoctorsOfTheWorld in #BMJ
The UK government has left us in no doubt that it is willing to violate human rights and harm people’s health in pursuit of its immigration agenda, say Amy Stevens and Yusuf Ciftci Recent weeks have thrown a spotlight on the UK’s escalating inhumane treatment of people forced to flee their homes because of war and persecution. In the past two weeks alone, a Dover immigration centre had petrol bombs thrown at it1; the HM chief inspector of prisons released a damning report on the state of short term holding facilities;2 and outbreaks of diphtheria and scabies, along with a case of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus , were reported in an immigration processing centre in Manston, Kent.3 The UK received eight asylum applicants per 10 000 population in 2020/21—far fewer per capita than many other European countries—and even though there has been an increase in asylum applications, this is not, as is claimed, unprecedented.4 As the number of people seeking asylum is subject to external factors, fluctuations are to be expected. To date this year, around 40 000 people have arrived in the UK by crossing the English Channel—a figure that experts say should be manageable.5 The challenges we are seeing are the result of a long term backlog in asylum claim decisions. By the end of 2021, the Home Office had 101 000 outstanding cases.4 As government policy does not allow people seeking asylum to work while their claim is being processed, …
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