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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
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John Bradshaw on
May 11, 2010
When President Obama signed an Executive Order on his second day in office mandating a uniform standard for all US interrogations, the human rights community was relieved and gratified. Years of advocacy to end torture and abuse of detainees had finally paid off. There was still a lot of work to be [...]
Posted in Custody, Podcast, Torture
| Tagged appendix m, army field manual, bagram air base, barack obama, BBC, break them down, hilary andersson, icrc, international committee of the red cross, leave no marks, sleep deprivation
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By
Richard Sollom on
March 14, 2010
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We are persecuted by the Burmese government, so we came here for peace, but now we are persecuted by the Bangladeshi government.
A 25-year-old female refugee from Arakan State, Burma, said this to me while I was investigating conditions at Kutupalong unofficial camp, Bangladesh three weeks ago.
Listen to the SBS radio podcast in which I [...]
Posted in Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, News Coverage, Podcast
| Tagged Arakan state, Bangladesh, Burma, GAM, Kutupalong, malnutrition, MUAC, Muslim minority, Myanmar, PHR, Richard Sollom, Rohingya, SBS radio, starving, stateless
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By
Jared Voss on
July 9, 2009
On June 29, Thom Hartmann, a national progressive talk show host, spent a captivating half-hour discussing the United States’ torture policies under President George W. Bush. A good portion of that segment focused on PHR’s “extaordinary report” Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact, from which he read [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Podcast, Torture
| Tagged broken laws broken lives, bush administration, central intelligence agency, cia, guantanamo bay, radio coverage, Thom Hartmann, Torture
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By
Richard Sollom on
June 23, 2009
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I was recently interviewed about three Sri Lankan physicians who treated civilians and disseminated information on the health crisis in the conflict zone. You can listen to the four-minute interview, above.
When taking the Hippocratic Oath, a doctor makes a promise to his or her patients to “keep them from harm and injustice.” But the Government [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, Podcast
| Tagged Additional Protocol II, BBC, Central Investigating Division, CID, Darma Wanninayake, detention, geneva convention, Government of Sri Lanka, Hippocratic Oath, human rights, International Code of Medical Ethics, international humanitarian law, LTTE, Mahinda Samarasinghe, medical ethics, military, physicians, Prevention of Terrorism Act, PTA, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, The Times, University Teachers for Human Rights, WMA, world medical association
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Ben Greenberg on
January 21, 2009
PHR CEO Frank Donaghue was recently interviewed by award-winning Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda about PHR’s new report, Health in Ruins: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe. Gonda and SW Radio Africa are based in London, from where they are forced to broadcast in exile to Zimbabwe.
Donaghue told Gonda about some of the things he learned first-hand [...]
Posted in Health, News Coverage, Podcast, Women, Zimbabwe
| Tagged frank donaghue, maternal mortality, Mugabe, united nations, violet gonda
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