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Erin Hustings on
August 8, 2010
In the past 10 years, more than 100,000 US children — all of them full-fledged citizens — have suffered the destabilizing effects of losing one or both parents to deportation. According to the American Psychological Association, children who lose a caretaker face notably heightened risk of psychological distress, developmental delay and poor physical health. Thanks to changes in US [...]
Posted in Asylum, Custody
| Tagged american psychological association, child citizen protection act, children, declaration on the rights and duties of man, help separated children act, hr 182, hr 3531, iachr, inter american commission on human rights, organization of american states, s 3522
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By
Erin Hustings on
July 1, 2010
At the center of the national debate over immigration policy are conflicting opinions about what is best for our national economic interests, but perhaps more interestingly, differences of opinion over our social and ethical obligations. President Obama waded into this debate with his Thursday speech, following a week of meetings with key stakeholders, on comprehensive [...]
Posted in Asylum, Custody
| Tagged american psychological association, barack obama, comprehensive immigration reform, Immigrants, immigration, us congress
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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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Nathaniel Raymond on
June 14, 2009
Perhaps the most interesting revelation in Jane Mayer’s latest New Yorker article on the CIA and US torture policy comes as an aside, towards the end. Ongoing investigations by PHR and others, including investigative journalists, are discovering disturbing connections between American Psychological Association officials involved in developing the ethics standards governing psychologists’ participation in interrogations [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged american psychological association, apa, barack obama, bruce jessen, cia, deuce matarazzo, firedoglake, james mitchell, jane mayer, joseph matarazzo, kirk hubbard, learned helplessness, leon panetta, marcy wheeler, mitchell jessen associates, new yorker, pens task force, propublica, sere, spokane, spokesman review, washington
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By
Ben Greenberg on
May 5, 2009
Today ProPublica and Salon.com have posted online emails from the list-serve of the 2005 APA ethics task force on national security interrogations (PDF). The internal APA documents indicate that the APA developed its ethics policy to conform with Pentagon guidelines governing psychologist participation in interrogations.
Physicians for Human Rights is calling for an independent, outside [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged american psychological association, apa, inspector general, nathaniel raymond, pens, pentagon, presidential taskforce on psychological ethics and national security, sasc, senate armed services committee, steven reisner, us senate
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 26, 2009
On Wednesday, just after the Senate Armed Services Committee released its report on the Bush Administration’s torture program, Firedoglake hosted a live online chat with Nathaniel Raymond, Director of PHR’s Campaign Against Torture. Firedoglake’s Christy Hardin Smith introduced the online discussion, saying:
As the details spill out, again and again two names keep appearing — James Mitchell and [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged 9/11, abu ghraib, afghanistan, al qaeda, alberto mora, ama, american medical association, american psychological association, apa, appendix m, army field manual, bagram, barack obama, binyam mohamed, british high court, bruce jessen, carl levin, central intelligence agency, christy hardin smith, cia, daniel baumgartner, david irvine, department of defense, department of justice, diane feinstein, dod, doj, eric holder, firedoglake, geneva convention, gerald gary, gottfried bill, gtmo, how to break a terrorist, interrogation, iraq, isolation, ivan fredericks, james mitchell, japan, jay bybee, jerald ogrisseg, jim haynes, john durham, john yoo, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, kenzaburo oe, leonard rubenstein, maher arar, major general antonio taguba, matt alexander, medical ethics, nathaniel raymond, npr, nuremberg, nurses, office of legal counsel, office of professional responsibility, olc, phillip zimbardo, physician complicity, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, robert segal, sasc, senate armed services committee, sensory deprivation, sere tactics, sheldon whitehouse, sleep deprivation, special mission units, stanford prison experiment, steven bradbury, steven kleinman, taliban, us attorney, us congress, vietnam, waterboarding, white house, wwii
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By
Sara Greenberg on
April 22, 2009
We call on the President of the United States to establish an independent, non-partisan commission to examine and report publicly on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees in the period since September 11, 2001. The commission, comparable in stature to the 9/11 Commission, should look into the facts and circumstances of such [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged 9/11 commission, afghanistan, american psychological association, apa, barack obama, bush administration, carl levin, commissiononaccountability.org, donald rumsfeld, dual loyalty, eric holder, guantanamo bay, icrc, international committee of the red cross, iraq, medical ethics, office of legal counsel, olc, pens, president of the united states, presidential task force on psychological ethics and national security, psychological research, sasc, senate armed services committee, us congress, us constitution
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