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Call for Clear Benchmarks for Sudan Policy

By Susannah Sirkin on January 19, 2010

(The following is statement from all the participating NGOs. — Susannah Sirkin)
Today ten NGOs, including Enough, Humanity United, Human Rights Watch, Save Darfur Coalition, Genocide Intervention Network, Physicians for Human Rights, American Jewish World Service, Investors Against Genocide, and i-Act/Stop Genocide Now, released a major policy paper calling on the Obama administration to apply firm benchmarks to [...]

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Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill: Impact on AIDS and Public Health

By Sarah Kalloch on January 17, 2010

The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill has sparked heated debate, both locally and internationally, surrounding the future of human rights in Uganda. If imposed, the bill will both violate the human rights of the gay community and potentially impact every citizen in Uganda who relies on international aid. Sweden has already stated their disapproval by threatening to [...]

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

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 [...]

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Thank You: PHR Supporters Lead US Response to End HIV Travel Ban

By Sarah Kalloch on August 18, 2009

Thanks to all of you who sent in comments urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to end the HIV travel ban.
Your voices were heard loud and clear.
The count, as of last Thursday, was 18,997 comments in favor of ending the ban, the majority of which were generated by PHR and Human Rights [...]

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