Pressroom
Information for Journalists
EMERGENCY USA believes that the media can play an important role in publicising our projects and in aiding our advocacy for free, universal, healthcare. We value our partnerships with journalists both in the USA and overseas, and welcome collaboration with regards to organising events and publishing stories.
Journalists seeking more information, interviews or a potential visit to our projects can contact:
David Lloyd Webber, International Communications Lead
EMERGENCY in the Press
Al Jazeera
- “‘Mosul civilians: ‘Who knows who was shooting?”
- “Battle for Mosul: Children face life-changing injuries”
- “Civilians caught in Mosul crossfire as Iraqi forces advance”
- “Afghan children pay for violence”
- “Afghan elections: Violence season comes early”
- “Afghan emergency hospital facing busiest year”
- “Children caught up in Afghan conflict”
- “Afghan deminers to ‘continue to save lives’ despite deadly attack”
- “Afghan forces bomb Taliban in bid to halt advance on cities”
- “Taliban claims capture of more provincial capitals in Afghanistan”
- “Civilians, US troops among dozens killed in Kabul blasts”
ArchDaily
Associated Press
BBC
- “Kabul attack leaves hospitals under strain”
- “Battle for west Mosul: Bombs ‘fall like rain’ on front line”
- “Call to protect health workers in conflict zones”
- “Sadness and desperation-resilience and bravery”
- “Iraq unrest: Life as a tailor in Baghdad”
- “CAR unrest kills dozens, including Chad peacekeepers.”
- “In pictures: Emergency Hospital”
- “Saving lives in one of the world’s most dangerous cities”
- “Coronavirus: Sleepless nights for doctors in a war zone”
- “Taliban fighters reach heart of Helmand as foreign forces withdraw”
- “Afghanistan, The Reckoning”
- “Interview with Viktor Urosevic, Medical Coordinator in Lashkar-Gah”
CBS
Channel 4
China Global Television Network America
CNN
Crisis Response Journal
Daily Sabah
Democracy Now
- “Mission Accomplished Redux: 1 Year After “End” to War in Afghanistan, Aid Workers Reveal Real Story”
- “War Crime in Afghanistan?: Outrage after U.S Airstrike on Hospital Kills 22 Patients and Staff”
Deutsche Welle TV
Euronews
- “The hidden face of the Afghanistan war”
- “Mosul and its people rise from the ruins”
- “WHO hopes for air bridge into northern Afghanistan in days”
- “Italian surgeon and Emergency NGO founder dies aged 73”
The Economist
The Globe and Mail
The Guardian & The Observer
- “Philippine teenager flies to Sudan to undergo life-saving heart surgery”
- “First NHS staff leave to help fight Ebola in Sierra Leone”
- “Giles Duley: ‘I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back…”
- “Migrants tell of rescue by Italian navy service facing an uncertain future”
- “WHO warns 10,000 new cases of Ebola a week are possible”
- “The Central African Republic: A country abandoned to its fate”
- “Meet Gino Strada, unsung hero to the poorest victims of war”
- “Delivering midwives to save lives in Tanzania”
- “Thousands of Afghans flee as fighting erupts after US troop withdrawal begins”
- “Maestro of humanity’: Italian surgeon Gino Strada dies at 73”
Friends of Europe
Huffington Post
The Independent
- “When war comes home: the wounds and the ‘executioners’ of the Afghan conflict'”
- “Giles Duley: The photographer finding hope in the darkest moments of the refugee crisis”
- “We should be in the same neighbourhoods as the Italians – but we’re on the outside”
- “Gino Strada, Italian surgeon for victims of war, dies at 73”
International Business Times
- “Fleeing Isis: Meet the refugees in Iraq who don’t want to go to Europe”
- “The Ebola death councillors offering therapy to stem trauma in Sierra Leone”
IRIN
The Lancet
Medium.com
MENAFN
Middle East Observer
National Catholic Reporter
National Geographic
- “Romeo and Juliet” (Photo by Giacomo Menaldo)
NBC
- “The Healers – Doctors and nurses struggle to keep pace with a rush of wounded civilians”
- “Civilian casualties up across Afghan hospitals”
- “Emergency NGO president describes hospital situation in Kabul”
Newsweek
The New Humanitarian
Reuters
The New Yorker
The Observer (Uganda)
The New York Times & Magazine
- “It’s a Massacre’: Blast in Kabul Deepens Toll of a Long War”
- “Taliban Push Into Afghan Districts That U.S. Had Secured”
- “Maimed Defending Afghanistan, Then Neglected”
- “Pacifists in the Cross-Fire: The Kabul Hospital That Treats All Sides”
- “Mortar Strikes Kill at Least 20 at Livestock Auction in Afghanistan”
- “Chaos and community mingle in a Kabul hospital”
- “Dr. Gino Strada, Who Brought Health Care to the Desperate, Dies at 73”
New York Post
The Right Livelihood Award
Scientific American
Sky News
South China Morning Post
Sunhak Peace Prize.blogspot.com
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
The Telegraph
- “Bullets before bedtime: when war comes home, in pictures”
- “Inside Helmand’s war A&E: ‘We treat every kind of patient – Taliban, army… everyone”
- “Huge Blast Rocks Kabul”
- “Pictures of the day”
- “Taliban launch fresh Helmand offensive as US troops withdraw”
The Times
TIME Magazine
Truth-Out
U.S. News & World Report
Vice News
- “What We’re Leaving Behind” (Ben Anderson Documentary)
- “The mafia is getting away with murder while Italians rage over migrants”
Vox News
The Wall Street Journal
- “Afghan Civilians, Security Forces Bear a Rising Burden of War”
- “Afghanistan Bomb Attack on Girls Highlights Threat to Women’s Education”
World Health Organization Website – News
The Washington Post
- “War amputees in Afghanistan face harsh lives of discrimination and poverty”
- “This is what Eid is like in one of Afghanistan’s most dangerous provinces”
- “Mortar Strikes Kill at Least 20 at Livestock Auction in Afghanistan”
- “Gino Strada, Italian surgeon for victims of war, dies at 73”
- “Gino Strada, Italian doctor who served patients through war and strife, dies at 73”