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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
| 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
Ben Greenberg on
June 7, 2010
PHR’s CEO Frank Donaghue provides an overview of our new report, Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the “Enhanced” Interrogation Program, available at http://phrtorturepapers.org.
Posted in Custody, Torture, Video
| Tagged experiments in torture, frank donaghue
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By
Paola Barahona on
June 1, 2010
Recently it was my honor to be a moderator at the Syringe Exchange Victory Celebration in the US Capitol. We celebrated that after 21 years, Congress had finally repealed the ban on federal funding of syringe exchange. The celebration recognized leaders in Congress, honored community advocates, and reminded everyone that there is still work to [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health, Video
| Tagged Barbara Lee, david obey, henry waxman, jim moran, josé serrano, loren sandt, lucille roybal-allard, mike castle, nancy pelosi, public health, steve cohen, syringe exchange, us congress, world hepatitis day
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
March 10, 2010
We’re just a month away from World Health Day (April 7th) and the official launch of advocacy for the Global HEALTH Act of 2010. So far this month, through this blog you’ve learned about the Global HEALTH Act and gotten some great facts about the health workforce crisis (and how many people are waiting in line [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Lessons from Kenya, Students, Video, Women
| Tagged africa, fred katumba, Global HEALTH Act, Health Rights Advocacy Forum, health workforce, Jane Byarugaba, kenya, powerpoint, resources, Uganda, Video, World Health Day
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By
Jonathan Hutson on
November 25, 2009
The Save Darfur Coalition honored Darfuri women refugees at the Farchana Camp in Chad to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25 and to kick off a global campaign of activism against gender-based violence.
Women refugees in Farchana Camp in eastern Chad drew up a groundbreaking, one-page women’s empowerment [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Video, Women
| Tagged chad, farchana camp, farchana manifesto, international day for the elimination of violence against women, international human rights day, save darfur coalition
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
October 30, 2009
Today marks a victory for PHR and all of you who have been working to lift the US HIV travel ban. This morning, while signing the fourth reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act, President Obama vowed to “publish a final rule that eliminates the travel ban effective just after the New Year.”
Obama said:
Twenty-two years [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Video
| Tagged AIDS, barack obama, frank donaghue, HIV travel ban, immigration, ryan white care act
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By
Richard Sollom on
September 11, 2009
Remember the calamitous end to Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long civil war back in May? Some 16,700 non-combatants were wounded and several thousand more were killed during the final onslaught. Fighting between the 150,000-strong Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the 7,000-strong Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) armed forces resulted in 300,000 displaced minority Tamils.
Although both sides [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Torture, Video
| Tagged bilateral agreement, Burma, child soldiers, china, Chris Beyrer, commission of inquiry, EJE, execution, Kokang, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapaksa, murder, Myanmar, POW, rape, Richard Sollom, sla, slavery, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Army, Tamil Tigers, Tamils, Than Shwe, Torture, United Nations Security Council, washington post, Yunnan Province
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
August 26, 2009
The debate that pits AIDS funding against other global health funding (for maternal mortality, malaria, etc.) rages on. Just last week, a Boston Globe op-ed began by saying AIDS has received tens of billions, but chronic, non-communicable diseases like cancer are becoming more deadly, without a similar monetary commitment from the US — as if there should [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health, Video
| Tagged boston globe, global health funding, pie
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By
Ben Greenberg on
August 26, 2009
This video was part of the December 2008 Physicians for Human Rights tribute to Senator Kennedy for his leadership on the right to health. We are saddened to learn of his death. Our condolences to his family and loved ones.
Posted in General Human Rights, Health, Video
| Tagged season of hope, ted kennedy
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By
Ben Greenberg on
July 13, 2009
Embedded video from CNN Video
In an interview today with Anderson Cooper, President Obama announced that he has ordered his national security team to collect all the facts in the Dasht-e-Leili massacre and apparent US cover-up — a move that Deputy Director Susannah Sirkin has praised in a statement earlier today.
President Obama’s comments differ from statements made by [...]
Posted in Conflict, Custody, Forensic, General Human Rights, News Coverage, Torture, Video
| Tagged abdul rashid dostum, accountability, afghanistan, AfghanMassGrave.org, anderson cooper, attorney general, barack obama, central intelligence agency, cia, cnn, commission of inquiry, dasht-e-leili, eric holder, ghana, nathaniel raymond, prosecution, sheberghan, Susannah Sirkin, taliban, war crimes, white house
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