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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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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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By
Ben Greenberg on
June 2, 2009
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Sondra Crosby, MD is one of the four members of the [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, News Coverage, Video, Women
| Tagged boston globe, chad, farchana, james f smith, nowhere to turn, sondra crosby, sudan
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By
Ben Greenberg on
May 27, 2009
Yesterday, Richard Sollom posted the happy news that Binayak Sen, MD, has been released on bail after more than two years in jail on false charges of supporting a Maoist insurgency in India. The following is a TV interview with Dr. Sen very shortly after his release.
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, General Human Rights, Video
| Tagged binayak sen, india
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By
Richard Sollom on
May 18, 2009
An unprecedented surge of citizen activism demanding the release of famed Indian pediatrician, Binayak Sen, culminated last Thursday when people from around the world held vigils in his honor. Physicians for Human Rights has worked for Dr. Sen’s release ever since government authorities arrested him on bogus charges of sedition on May 14, 2007. PHR [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, General Human Rights, Video
| Tagged binayak sen, Christian Medical College, global health council, Harvard Square, International Global Health Conference, jonathan mann award, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shiv Pillay, Susannah Sirkin
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