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By
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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By
Frank Donaghue on
June 11, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged amnesty international usa, bill of rights defense committee, center for constitutional rights, center for victims of torture, central intelligence agency, cia, common rule, experiments in torture, geneva conventions, Human RIghts Watch, international rehabilatation council for torture victims, national religious campaign against torture, nuremberg code, office of human research protections, ohrp, psychologists for social responsibility
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By
Joe Read on
November 24, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Take Action, Women
| Tagged amnesty international usa, arab coalition for darfur, enough project, hillary rodham clinton, Human RIghts Watch, international day to eliminate violence against women, khartoum, save darfur coalition, scott gration, sexual and gender based violence, sudan, UN, united nations
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By
Ben Greenberg on
August 4, 2009
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)
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Events, Women
| Tagged amnesty international usa, boston medical center, cambridge, carr center for human rights policy, chad, eric reeves, lin piwowarczyk, massachusetts coalition to save darfur, my sister's keeper, nowhere to turn, quincy, smith college, sondra crosby, sudan, thomas crane library
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