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By
Sarah Kalloch on
June 25, 2010
The New York State Senate is expected to vote imminently on whether or not to pass a groundbreaking anti-torture bill, known as the Duane-Gottfried bill, which would prohibit health professional participation in torture.
Call your Senator right now and urge them to vote for Senate Bill 4495.
With your support, PHR has been working for years to [...]
Posted in Take Action, Torture
| Tagged editorial, gottfried bill, new york state senate, new york times, Torture
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By
Ben Greenberg on
June 25, 2010
UPDATE: New York State residents should call their state Senators TODAY to urge them to vote for Senate Bill 4495.
In all likelihood when the sun is up we will see the New York Senate vote on whether or not to pass a groundbreaking anti-torture bill, known as the Gottfried Bill, which would prohibit health care [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged central intelligence agency, cia, new york state assembly, new york state senate, new york times, office of human research protections, ohrp, red cross, richard gottfried
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By
Erin Hustings on
June 20, 2010
A 29-year-old mother of three from the Republic of Congo who was arrested, detained, accused of anti-government activities because of her ethnicity, tortured and raped repeatedly by military officers for more than a year [...]
Posted in Asylum, Custody
| Tagged Burma, department of homeland secuirty, dhs, female genital mutilation, material support, mexico, nepal, patrick giantonio, refugee act, republic of congo, senate judiciary committee
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By
Erin Hustings on
June 19, 2010
In honor of World Refugee Day tomorrow, we are posting our statement made last month to the US Senate, in support of the Refugee Protection Act of 2010. —EH
STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD FROM PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
US Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Senator Patrick Leahy, Vermont, Chairman, Presiding
“Renewing America’s Commitment to the Refugee Convention: The Refugee [...]
Posted in Asylum, Custody
| Tagged patrick leahy, Refugee Protection Act, senate judiciary committee, us senate, world refugee day
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By
Ben Greenberg on
June 15, 2010
Last Monday, June 7, PHR released Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the “Enhanced” Interrogation Program to immediate, overwhelming response.
Upon release of the report, PHR issued a statement and held a press conference. In the first 24 hours, PHR received over 467 press mentions. Major press covering the story on day 1 [...]
Posted in General Human Rights, Health, News Coverage, Podcast, Take Action, Torture, Video
| Tagged agence france-presse, alternet, american prospect, amnesty international usa, andrew sullivan, associated press, balkiniation, bill of rights defense committee, boing boing, center for constitutional rights, center for victims of toture, cia, daily kos, dianne feinstein, firedoglake, glenn greenwald, huffington post, hullabaloo, inter press service, jeff kaye, jonathan moreno, la times, mother jones, nancy berlinger, national religious campaign against torture, nature, network of concerned anthropologists, new scientist, new york observer, new york times, office of human research protections, olivier ribbelink, on faith, paul root wolpe, political animal, psychologists for social responsibility, religion dispatches, salon.com, scientific american, senate intelligence committee, the atlantic, the great beyond, the nation, torture papers, washington independent, washington post
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By
Joe Read on
June 7, 2010
On June 2, Sudanese security forces reportedly attacked medical personnel participating in a peaceful protest march through Khartoum, organized by students of the School of Medicine of Khartoum University. Reuters news service reported that doctors, while peacefully protesting the arrests of Dr Walaa Alden Ibrahim and Dr Alhadi Bakhiet, were [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Custody
| Tagged African Center for Justice and Peace Studies, doctors, Dr. Bakhiet, Dr. Ibrahim, medical students, sudan
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By
Erin Hustings on
May 26, 2010
The Prison Rape Elimination Act became law in 2003, but it was not until earlier this year that regulations to implement the law were proposed to be enacted by the Department of Justice. In early May, Physicians for Human Rights submitted comments in support of these proposed standards to prevent, and offer treatment to [...]
Posted in Custody, Health
| Tagged department of justice, immigration, just detention international, prison rape elimination act
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
May 20, 2010
[Special Note: PHR medical student activists from New York just spent a day in Albany educating policy makers on this bill. We have the momentum--take action today!]
PHR has been working for years to stop torture by US forces. Especially important to us is ending the use of the healing professions to design, supervise and implement [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged dick gottfried, guantanamo bay, new york assembly, new york house, new york state, nycat, tom duane
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By
Hope O'Brien on
May 18, 2010
The New York Coalition Against Torture (NYCAT) — a group of concerned doctors, psychologists, lawyers, students and citizens — was formed in response to the shocking human rights abuses and gross violations of health professional ethics that have taken place during the “war on terror.” The well-documented participation of doctors, psychologists and other health care [...]
Posted in Students, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged center for constitutional rights, ethics, Gottfried-Duane Anti-Torture Bill, health professionals, New York Coalition Against Torture, nycat, petition, Students, The Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, Torture
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By
Ben Greenberg on
March 15, 2010
Salon.com’s Mark Benjamin recently covered PHR’s analysis of US government torture and interrogation policy documents, declassified since President Obama took office. In his review of documents, PHR Medical Advisor Scott Allen, MD, found alarming evidence of bad applications of scientific knowledge and gross ethical misconduct by medical personnel in interrogations of terror suspects in US [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged american medical association, american psychiatric association, american psychological association, bellevue/nyu program for survivors of torture, center for constitutional rights, cia, enhanced interrogation techniques, len rubenstein, mark benjamin, new york coalition agasinst torture, new york state assembly, new york times, office of medical services, richard gottfried, salon.com, scott allen, stephen xenakis, waterboarding, world medical association
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