The Standing Committee on human Rights and Peace (SCORP) works for the prevention of conflicts and human rights abuses. SCORP also deals with the problems faced by displaced people and participates in relief efforts.

SCORP aims at raising awareness among medical students and the general public about:

• refugee health and

• the threat that human rights violations, conflicts and modern warfare pose to the health.

The work is performed mainly by the means of information campaigns, exhibitions and workshops. SCORP-groups around the world organise also projects in refugee camps, thus giving students a chance to better sense the costs of war and displacement. Through its participation in the Peace Test 2000 Project, Peer Education Program of the IFMSA and Violence and Injury Prevention Project, SCORP takes an active part in the instillation of a culture of peace.

The topics SCORP members are working on are very broad. In the name of SCORP, medical students made several exhibitions (on landmines, earthquakes and Hiroshima), several workshops (on human rights, medicine and war, refugees, children and war, right to health), many lectures, and much more. SCORP topics could also include racism and the fight against discrimination, child rights, women rights (in co-operation with the Standing Committee on Reproductive Health including AIDS) and anything else YOU feel is important. SCORP gives you the opportunity to speak out against injustice and to change the world for a healthier tomorrow.

Examples of Local SCORP Projects

Below, there is a number of examples of Local SCORP projects. They are:

• Arrange lectures by guest speakers at your university, local library or community centre about refugee health, human rights and health or conflict prevention.

• Visit local refugee camps and speak with local officials, NGO and refugees about local needs.

• Provide personal services to refugees in your community (preferably with an NGO).

Examples of National SCORP Projects

For instance, national projects could be the following ones:

• Arrange a training focused on a SCORP-related issue for any SCORP member in your home-country to attend.

• Organise on a certain date an awareness campaign on women in Afghanistan and human rights at all universities in your home country.

• Create a web page about refugees and SCORP activities.

Examples of International SCORP Projects

International SCORP Projects can be:

• Workshop on Human Rights and Health.

• International Training on Refugee Health.

• International Training on Children and War.

• "Health and Human Rights of Refugees, Immigrants and Minorities in Europe" study session, European Youth Centre Budapest, Hungary, 8-14 December, 2003