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Experiments in Torture: Action and Media Recap

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 [...]

Did the CIA Experiment on People? Demand an Investigation!

PHR’s new report, Experiments in Torture, has sent shock waves through the conscience of America this week. This report reveals evidence indicating that the Bush administration may have conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on detainees in CIA custody.
This research, if proven to have occurred, could violate the Geneva Conventions, The Common Rule, [...]

Tell Congress: Speak Up for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Darfur

Last Friday, the PHR team delivered to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a joint advocacy letter, urging that sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) programming be recognized as an urgent need in Sudan. Forty advocacy and human rights groups called on Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sudan Envoy Scott Gration to recognize the [...]

Two Boston-Area Darfur Events

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 4:00 p.m.
Amnesty International USA Presents: The Ongoing Crisis in Darfur
Land Hall, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, 79 JFK St., Cambridge
Speakers: Eric Reeves (Smith College) and Sondra Crosby, MD (Boston Medical Center and Physicians for Human Rights)

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