Neither Safety Nor Health: How Title 42 Expulsions Harm Health and Violate Rights

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Violence Against Health Care in Myanmar

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PHR Statement on Texas Governor Abbott Order to Arrest Asylum Seekers Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border

July 29, 2021
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Doctors Condemn Tennessee Lawmakers for Discouraging Vaccines and Silencing Public Health Leaders

July 28, 2021
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U.S. Border Expulsion Policy Results in Family Separations, PTSD, Human Rights Violations: PHR Report

July 28, 2021

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6 Things You Should Know about COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Human Rights

Requirements for certain groups of people to be vaccinated against COVID-19, known as vaccine “mandates,” have generated significant debate, including in institutions of higher…
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Protecting the Right to Health in Syria

Syria remains one of the world’s most complex humanitarian emergencies. Ten years of violence have resulted in more than 500,000 casualties, triggered one of…
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Title 42 Expulsion Policy Must Go: Inhumane Border Policy is Restricting Access to Asylum

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues and a renewed sense of normalcy is beginning to be restored in many places in the United States,…
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Behind Closed Doors: Abuse and Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention

Trapped in a system marked by mistreatment and abuse, medical neglect, and the denial of due process, hundreds of people in U.S. immigration detention…
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Cruelty and Coercion: How ICE Abuses Hunger Strikers

On President Biden’s 100th day in office, Nilson Barahona-Marriaga joined demonstrators who greeted the president at a rally in Atlanta. “End detention now!” they…
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A Trump-era Pandemic Policy is Undermining Public Health at the Border. Biden Must End It.

Originally published by the Los Angeles Times on May 21, 2021 In a steadily growing encampment mere yards south of the U.S.-Mexico border, we…
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From Behind Closed Doors: Voices of Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention

Each day, the United States government unnecessarily locks up thousands of people, including children, in civil immigration detention in more than two hundred immigration…
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COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Kenya Illustrates Dire Global Inequity

“It’s been a total nightmare. I’ve called eight different government and private facilities today alone trying to schedule a vaccine appointment for my parents.…
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Key Steps the Government Must Take to Provide COVID Vaccines to People in Immigration Detention

COVID-19 has taken a terrible toll on people in immigration detention. There have been devastating outbreaks in detention centers across the country, driven by…
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“This is My Second Revolution”: A Q&A with Scientist-Activist Sandra Mon, on What’s Happening in Myanmar

Sandra Mon is a senior researcher at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Department of Epidemiology. As a…
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For Millions of Civilians, Syria’s Bab al-Hawa Humanitarian Crossing is a Crucial Lifeline

An enormous humanitarian crisis may face the four million people in Syria’s northwest region, specifically the Idlib governorate, which currently relies on one lifeline…
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Pandemic Burnout: The Toll of COVID-19 on Health Care Workers and Children

Among the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects on mental health have proven to be widespread and substantial. In January 2021, four…