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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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By
Richard Sollom on
August 31, 2009
Senator Jim Webb recently opined in the New York Times that we can’t afford to ignore Myanmar (the official name of Burma since 1989). The senior Democratic senator from Virginia rightly calls for increased engagement with Burma, but for all the wrong reasons. Without knowing better, one could read the Senator’s piece and believe [...]
Posted in Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, Torture
| Tagged Burma, conscription of child soldiers, crimes against humanity, elections, ethnic minorities, forced displacement, GBV, murder, Myanmar, new york times, rape, refugees, Senator Jim Webb, slave labor, Torture
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By
Jared Voss on
July 9, 2009
On June 29, Thom Hartmann, a national progressive talk show host, spent a captivating half-hour discussing the United States’ torture policies under President George W. Bush. A good portion of that segment focused on PHR’s “extaordinary report” Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact, from which he read [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Podcast, Torture
| Tagged broken laws broken lives, bush administration, central intelligence agency, cia, guantanamo bay, radio coverage, Thom Hartmann, Torture
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By
Nathaniel Raymond on
June 29, 2009
Thom Hartmann, a national progressive talk show host, today featured on his show a discussion of PHR’s report Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact. A transcript of the feature is expected to be available.
Mr. Hartmann spent several minutes quoting from various areas of the report, and commenting [...]
Posted in News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged broken laws broken lives, radio coverage, Thom Hartmann, Torture
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By
Emily Bancroft on
February 9, 2009
As Senior Coordinator of PHR’s Health Action AIDS East Africa Program, I get frequent opportunities to be in the field and connect with amazing human rights activists from the region. Last week in Kigali, Rwanda, I met with two incredible young doctors – Dr. Davis Kashake Karengya and Dr. Charles Ntare – who have devoted their careers to [...]
Posted in AIDS, Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, Torture
| Tagged forum for activists against torture and violence, genocide, le forum des activistes contre la torture et la violence, Rwanda, rwanda medical association, Torture
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By
Ben Greenberg on
January 23, 2009
Yesterday, President Obama lifted the spirits of all who oppose torture and hope for a return to the rule of law in the United States. In a series of three executive orders, President Obama made major reversals on Bush Administration interrogation and detention policies.
President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects Thursday, signing [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged al-qaida, army field manual, barack obama, behavioral science consultants, bush administration, cia, dennis blair, detention, director of national intelligence, executive orders, frank donaghue, guantanamo bay, interrogation, rule of law, taliban, Torture, united states
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