Advocate for the rights of traumatised women

medica mondiale e.V. acts to support traumatised women and girls in war and crisis zones and views its role as that of an advocate for the rights and interests of women who have survived sexualised wartime violence.

• medica mondiale offers emergency and long-term support through
• Medical and psychosocial projects
  (e.g. First-aid station in the refugee camps in Darfur, Sudan)
• Public health care projects
  (e.g. Medical treatment and health advice in Sierra Leone)
• Legal advice projects
  (e.g. Legal aid for women in Turkey)
• Training, further training and job skills projects
  (e.g. Collective farming in Kosova)
• Information campaigns aimed at the general public addressing the situation of women and girls and the reasons and background underpinning violence against women
  (e.g. Lobbying and defending women's rights in Afghanistan)
• medica mondiale prefers to work with local female experts on the spot, offering them further training as required.
• medica mondiale acts to ensure that the various forms of violence and war crimes against women around the world are documented. Information campaigns on these issues are also organised.
• medica mondiale devises  scientific standards for work with women and girls traumatized by war in conjunction with international experts through an interdisciplinary exchange of expertise.
• medica mondiale engages in  political lobbying for survivors of sexualized violence and informs politicians and international organisations' staff about the situation of women in war and crisis zones.
• medica mondiale works as part of a network of national and international organi- sations.
• medica mondiale is an organisation for women, made up of women. We see ourselves as part of the international women's movement and act to promote the recognition of women's rights as human rights within the context of non-hierarchical gender relations.