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Sarah Kalloch on
March 1, 2010
Fact: Washington, DC, with a population of fewer than 600,000, has about twice as many physicians as do the over 80 million residents of Ethiopia.
For almost a decade, PHR has been a world leader on building human resources for health. What does that mean? We advocate to governments and funders around the world to [...]
Posted in Health
| Tagged Global HEALTH Act, health workforce, health workforce advocacy initiative, us congress
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
January 20, 2010
On Thursday January 21, 2010, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) is holding a hearing to discuss the proposed Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The hearing will be from 2-3:30pm in Rayburn House Office Building and is open to the media and public. The TLHRC was established in 2008 “to promote and advocate in a non-partisan [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Take Action
| Tagged anti homosexuality bill, General Human Rights, lgbt, News Coverage, Take Action, tammy baldwin, tlhrc, tom lantos human rights commission, Uganda, us congress
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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 [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur
| Tagged American Jewish World Service, barack obama, benchmarks, Enough, genocide, Genocide Intervention Network, Human RIghts Watch, Humanity United, i-Act/Stop Genocide Now, Investors Against Genocide, physicians for human rights, save darfur coalition, sudan, sudan now, us congress, us department of state, washington post
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By
Paola Barahona on
December 14, 2009
That is the tune being sung through harm reduction networks. I write to share very exciting news.
Yesterday Congress ended the 22-year-old ban on federal funding of syringe exchange. Following on the heels of a House vote last week, the Senate yesterday ended the ban by a 57-35 vote. PHR has been at the core of [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged barack obama, harm reduction, office of the global aids coordinator, PEPFAR, syringe exchange, us congress, us senate
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
December 7, 2009
To the more than 2,200 of you who have urged your Senators to protect women’s rights and women’s health by Ratifying CEDAW: Thank You!
We are more than halfway through the 10,000 in 10 Campaign, and really need your help to reach our goal of 10,000 signatures to support CEDAW.
To those of you who have not [...]
Posted in General Human Rights, Health, Take Action, Women
| Tagged 10000 in 10, cedaw, convention to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, international human rights day, somalia, sudan, us congress, world aids day
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By
Frank Donaghue on
September 8, 2009
Medical care is a human right, and the US health care system falls far short. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations with strong US engagement, specifically lists adequate medical care as a human right (Article 25).
Tomorrow, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress to press our Senators and [...]
Posted in General Human Rights, Health, Take Action
| Tagged article 25, bankruptcy, barack obama, ethnic disparities, health insurance, udhr, undocumented workers, universal declaration of human rights, us congress, us representative, us senator
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By
Pete Witzler on
June 17, 2009
Last month President Obama released his detailed budget for Fiscal year 2010. Unfortunately, his budget falls short of what is needed to reach goals outlined in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) reauthorization bill PHR members helped pass last year.
We need your help to make sure Congress and President Obama fulfill their commitment [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health, Take Action
| Tagged barack obama, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, presidents emergency plan for aids relief, Uganda, us congress
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By
Paola Barahona on
May 19, 2009
In his 2010 budget, President Obama failed to deliver on his commitment to end the ban on federal funding of needle exchange services — an action he promised to take before and after the election and one that would help protect the health and save the lives of tens of thousands of injection drug users — in the US [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged barack obama, hepatitis, hiv, labor hhs appropriations bill, needle exchage, science, us congress
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By
Jirair Ratevosian on
May 11, 2009
PHR’s senior global health policy adviser, Eric Friedman had a powerful letter in yesterday’s New York Times about President Obama’s FY10 budget announcement last week:
President Obama plans to backtrack from a campaign pledge on significantly increased global AIDS financing. Planned increases for other areas in global health, while welcome, fall far short of the investments required to achieve the United Nations [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, News Coverage, Women
| Tagged barack obama, eric friedman, mozambique, new york times, office of the global aids coordinator, paola barahona, PEPFAR, san francisco chronicle, seattle times, syringe exchange, un millenium development goals, us congress, wendy johnson
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By
Kathleen Sullivan on
May 7, 2009
Almost every day for the past six weeks new information has emerged about abusive interrogations conducted by the US military and intelligence agencies during the Bush Administration. Despite this gathering torrent, apologists for Bush-era decision makers are urging the American people to turn the page — and quickly — on this sordid chapter in our history.
Into this fray step [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged bush administration, commission of inquiry, criminal prosecutions, rhode island, sheldon whitehouse, us congress, us senate
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