Physicians for Human Rights

Health Workers Deliver First Aid to Protest Movements

Michelle Chen | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Arab Spring, Egypt, Africa, Hospitals, Doctors, Democracy, Medicine, Health Care, #Occupywallstreet, Human Rights Doctors, Doctors Protest, Doctors Protesters, Physicians for Human Rights, Occupy Wall Street Medical Treatment, World News
Michelle Chen

Movements are also discovering the connection between health and activism in another way, through medical workers joining the front lines to deploy their skills and their conviction.

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Jorge Luis Macias

One Man's Search For His Salvadoran Roots

HuffingtonPost.com | Jorge Luis Macias | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: El Salvador, Latinos, Video, International Adoption, Physicians for Human Rights, Documentary, Nelson De Witt, El Salvador Civil War, Missing Children, Adoption, Latino Voices News

PASADENA, Calif. -- In the orphanage in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the boy didn't have a name or a history. He had been separated from his family by the d...

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Unhappy Anniversary: Eight Years of Continuing Lawlessness

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Defense, George W. Bush, CIA Torture, Obama Administration, David Addington, John Yoo, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, John Yoo Torture, John Yoo Memo, Bush Torture Memos, Judge Jay Bybee, CIA UnLawful Human Experimentation, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Nuremberg Trials, Jay Bybee, Cia, Physicians for Human Rights, Enhanced Interrogations, Department of Justice, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

The Defense Department now obstructs justice by suppressing evidence of its own criminal actions. This sordid history indicates the perverse depths to which our nation has unfortunately fallen.

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Did The Bush Administration Experiment On Detainees?

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Torture, Cia, CIA Interrogation, Bush Administration, Enemy Combatants, George W. Bush, Physicians for Human Rights, Experiments, Politics News

In the course of trying to prove that its "enhanced" interrogation program was legal, the Bush administration may have broken the law, according to a ...

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War Crimes in Afghanistan, Or: What You Don't Learn in Science Class

Amnesty International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights, Afghanistan, War on Terror, World News
Amnesty International

This week, Physicians for Human Rights, using forensic analysis and satellite imagery, documented a war crime -- and the subsequent U.S. supported cover-up -- in Afghanistan.

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Congress Set to End Needle Exchange Funding Ban

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Congress, Human Rights, Hiv, Needle Exchange, Physicians for Human Rights, HIV Prevention, Harm Reduction, David Obey, Politics News
Jirair Ratevosian

Lifting the 20-year ban on federal funding of needle exchange provides greater options for states and local jurisdictions that require new and effective tools to prevent the spread of HIV.

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Zimbabwe's Poor Healthcare System Causing Humanitarian Crisis

NYCity News Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zimbabwe Healthcare, Cholera Outbreak, Morgan Tsvangarai Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Foreign Affairs, Cholera Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Hiv, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Zimbabwe Cholera, Zimbabwe Cholera Outbreak, HIV/AIDS, Morgan Tsvangarai, Cholera Epidemic, Humanitarian Crisis, Physicians for Human Rights, Cholera, HIV/AIDS Africa, Robert Mugabe, Health Care, Aids Zimbabwe, Advocacy, Healthcare Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, World News
NYCity News Service

The collapse of Zimbabwe's health system has created a humanitarian crisis where people are already suffering from a crippling hyperinflation and severe food, fuel and currency shortages.

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Life in a Time of Cholera: Crisis in Zimbabwe

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zimbabwe Peace Project, Cholera Epidemic, Zanu-Pf, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Operation Clean Out the Filth, Who, Limpopo Province, Southern African Development Community, Harare, Movement for Democratic Change, Mdc, Cholera Zimbabwe, Vhembe District, Sadc, Cholera, African Union, World Health Organization, Physicians for Human Rights, Public Health, Robert Mugabe, Operation Murambatsvina, Beitbridge, Bulawayo, World News
Arlene M. Roberts

When does denial of health care amount to a human rights violation? Zimbabwe is facing a humanitarian crisis. The cause of the crisis is a political one.

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Renowned Doctors Among Four "Destroyed" in Iran

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Violations, HIV/AIDS, Alaei, Human Rights, Iran Justice, Human Rights Watch, Iran Judicial System, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, World News, Kamiar Alaei, Arash Alaei, Ali-Reza Jamshidi, Human Rights Groups, Physicians for Human Rights, Tehran, Tehran's Revolutionary Court, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

The rights of doctors Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei have been violated and their commitment to public health has been misrepresented by the Iranian Government as a threat to their regime.

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Zimbabwe's Ruined Healthcare System A 'Man-Made Disaster:' Report

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, United Nations, Aids, Icc, Cholera, Zanu-Pf, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Cholera, Humanitarian Aid, Physicians for Human Rights, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

The healthcare crisis in Zimbabwe is a direct outcome of the malfeasance of the Robert Mugabe regime and the systematic violation of a wide range of human rights.

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Mad about Madoff: the Lessons to Learn

Dave Belden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Network of Spiritual Progressives, Thomas Friedman, Spiritual Capitalism, Tikkun, Madoff, David Korten, Physicians for Human Rights, Muhammad Yunus, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Business News
Dave Belden

If cleaned up, Ponzi-free, derivative-free capitalism comes out of Madoff scandal, then good may yet come of his madness, and of our system.

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A Bumpy Road to Health: Human Rights, Obama, and Lessons from Kenya

Rishi Manchanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Leadership, Women's Rights, Governance, Equity, Health, Physicians for Human Rights, Democracy, Civil Society, Health Care, Kenya, Barack Obama, Participation, World News
Rishi Manchanda

Kenya's health infrastructure remains thirsty for workers in a sea of relative plenty, and patients continue to pay the ultimate price.

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