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The Survivors, the Dead, and the Disappeared: Detention of Health Care Workers in Syria, 2011-2012

PHR's analysis of patterns in the Syrian government’s forced disappearance, detention, and abuse of health care workers during the early years of the Syrian…
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Top Global Health Experts Preview Biden’s COVID-19 Summit, Call for Global Vaccine Equity

On Monday, September 20, 2021, PHR hosted a virtual press conference with top public health, epidemiology, and human rights experts calling on high-income countries…
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Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Need Urgent Access to COVID-19 Vaccines

Hopes of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic are increasing, with nearly five billion doses of vaccines administered globally. Yet for vulnerable populations such as Rohingya…
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Survivors of Domestic and Gang Violence Deserve a Chance at Asylum in the U.S.

After being thrown out of her home as a teenager by her stepmother, Maria* was raped by the son of her employer, who then…
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COVID-19 Recovery and the Right to Health

While COVID-19 “recovery” usually implies a patient’s recuperation from physical symptoms, the recovery of health care systems from systemic fractures exposed by the pandemic…
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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…