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PHR to UN Rapporteur: Press for Rohingya Safety and Justice

UN Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Yanghee Lee will visit Bangladesh on January 19 to assess the conditions of the more than 920,000 Rohingya who…
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PHR to Trump: Seize Border Trip Opportunity

U.S. President Donald Trump will visit the southern border with Mexico today on the heels of a nationally televised speech in which he called…
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Debunking President Trump’s U.S. “Border Crisis”

On Tuesday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump solemnly declared “a growing humanitarian and security crisis” on the U.S. border with Mexico that demands urgent…
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A Tech Solution to Documenting Sexual Violence

This post originally appeared on OpenGlobalRights. It’s not uncommon to see Post-Rape Care (PRC) forms, the standardized medical intake document for sexual violence in…
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PHR Letter to Turkish President Demands Charges Be Dropped Against Physician Human Rights Defenders

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has sent a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressing grave concern about the sentencing on December 19…
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Migrant Child Dies after Detention under Trump’s Hardline Immigration Policies

A young migrant child, who should never have been placed in immigration detention, and who faced unimaginable conditions crossing into the United States, died…
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The Very Real Health Impacts of Tear Gas

For decades, the use of tear gas for crowd control has been fiercely debated. Over the past month, we’ve seen the conversation renewed, with…
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Who Will Protect the Migrants?

I’m no stranger to rough situations. From 2015 to 2017, I monitored an international border in a conflict zone, wearing protective gear and driving…
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Release of Top Secret CIA Document Reveals Deeper Medical Complicity in Torture Program

With the release of a previously top secret document – made public thanks to a legal victory by the ACLU – disclosing the role…
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Tens of Millions of Yemeni Lives Are in the Balance

Amal Hussein, the seven-year-old emaciated Yemeni girl whose harrowing portrait drew the world’s attention to the largely overlooked humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Yemen, died…
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PHR: UN’s Guterres Should Break Silence on Rohingya Repatriation to Myanmar

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, urging him to speak out publicly against the imminent…
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A Map of Attacks on Health Care in Syria

Map of Attacks on Medical Personnel and Facilities in Syria When hospitals or health clinics are destroyed, the loss is far greater than the…