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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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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 [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Take Action
| Tagged anti homosexuality bill, foreign aid, global post, Human RIghts Watch, Uganda, united nations, usa today, washington post
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Jonathan Hutson on
November 25, 2009
Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International, and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran sent a letter to Iranian authorities on November 25 to ask for a full, transparent and independent investigation into the suspicious death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, a physician who had examined prisoners wounded and killed during the 2009 Iranian election [...]
Posted in Custody, Forensic, Torture
| Tagged amnesty international, detention, iran, Kahrizak, Pourandarjani, prisoners, washington post
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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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Sarah Kalloch on
August 7, 2009
On July 24, the US House of Representatives voted to end the ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs. Representative José Serrano publicly applauded PHR for our work on needle exchange funding issues:
I also wish to recognize the incredible efforts of the various national and local groups that have been working for years to [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, News Coverage, Take Action
| Tagged AIDS Action, HIV/AIDS, HRC, needle exchange programs, new york times, us house of representatives, us senate, washington post
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Jonathan Hutson on
July 21, 2009
The Dasht-e-Leili mass grave case is garnering increased media attention, after more than seven years of investigation and advocacy by Physicians for Human Rights. A large part of the credit for the media coverage goes to early and significant coverage and analysis by blogs, many of whom are named below as part of this media [...]
Posted in Conflict, Custody, Forensic, General Human Rights, News Coverage
| Tagged abc news, abdul rashid dostum, agence france press, agnoist, amnesty international, anderson cooper, aol top news, associated press, balkinization, barack obama, BBC, bitch phd, boston globe, circling the lion's den, cnn, daily kos, dasht-e-leili, democracy now, east africa, firedoglake, forbes online, fox news, france 24 online, global post, google news, guardian online, hamid karzai, harper's magazine, huffington post, hullabaloo, inter press service, jake tapper, miami herald, msnbc online, new york times, new yorker, newsweek magazine, northern alliance, pajwhok afghan news, radio free europe, radio liberty, san francisco chronicle, thai news service, the hub, thom hartman, usa today online, voice of america, wall street journal, washington post, washington times online, witness
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Sara Greenberg on
March 4, 2009
I attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on a “commission of inquiry” to examine Bush Administration policies governing detainee treatment.
Committee Chairman Senator Leahy (D-VT) introduced the hearing, stating:
We must not be afraid to look at what we have done, to hold ourselves accountable as we do other nations who make mistakes. We must [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged arlen specter, behavioral science consultation teams, brennan center for justice, frederic a. o. schwarz jr., Guantanamo, john farmer, lee f. gunn, medical ethics, mohammed al-qahtani, office of legal counsel, patrick leahy, petition, senate judiciary committee, susan crawford, washington post
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Sara Greenberg on
January 23, 2009
Last week on January 13, 2009, former military prosecutor Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld submitted a declaration in US federal court on behalf of Mohammed Jawad’s habeas corpus petition, noting “reliable evidence that he was badly mistreated by U.S. authorities both in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo, and he has suffered, and continues to suffer, great psychological [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged afghanistan, barack obama, Darrel Vandeveld, department of justice, frequent flier program, guantanamo bay, habeas corpus, mohammed jawad, washington post
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Ben Greenberg on
January 22, 2009
PHR learned on January 20 that Kamiar and Arash Alaei were convicted on spurious charges and sentenced to three and six year prison terms, respectively.
In the wake of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Iran has signaled that the espionage trial of two world-renowned AIDS doctors is a bellwether for the future of US-Iranian relations.
The Washington Post [...]
Posted in AIDS, Colleagues at Risk, News Coverage
| Tagged arash alaei, barack obama, international campaign for human rights in iran, iran, jonathan hutson, kamiar alaei, petition, washington post
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