Russian forces must immediately cease their mounting attacks on medical warehouses, transport, and distribution infrastructure, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today, following multiple strikes against medical supply facilities over twelve days that reportedly destroyed hundreds of metric tons of medicines and the storage capacity that Ukraine’s health system and population depends on. “Destroying a […]
The Trump administration’s “America First Global Health Strategy” has damaged efforts to respond to the most urgent public health crises facing the world, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today. September 18, 2026 marks one year since the launch of the America First Global Health Strategy, which represented a new approach to U.S. global health […]
Africa is responding to an active Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — in a global health landscape that has shifted sharply beneath it. Financing is being reconfigured, donor commitments have contracted, and the surveillance, treatment and workforce arrangements Africa has relied on for two decades can no longer be assumed. This […]
NEW YORK — As the risk of renewed armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region grows and conflicts in the Amhara and Afar regions continue, all armed forces must cease the deliberate attacks on hospitals and health workers that have nearly collapsed the health system, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Organization for Justice and […]
Attacks on health care have become a major feature of armed conflict in Ethiopia. Attacks and threats to health care infrastructure, supply chains, and the health care workforce continue to be used as a tactic in conflict-affected regions of Ethiopia, including Tigray, Amhara, and Afar.
The aim of this publication is to provide practical guidance and tools for documenting civilian harm from attacks on energy infrastructure. The focus is on measuring the impacts of attacks on energy infrastructure through indicators related to civilians’ physical health, mental health, education, and livelihoods, among other aspects of civilian life. This guide provides an […]
(New York) – The death over the weekend of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a 41-year-old from El Salvador, at the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark is the 53rd known death in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since the start of this administration. That represents nearly four times the death rate under the Biden administration, or two and a half times the rate during the first Trump administration. Deaths are increasing faster than the […]
(Nairobi, Kenya)— Kenya’s Supreme Court heard final arguments today in a landmark case that could determine the extent of the state’s obligation to provide reparations and effective remedies to survivors of election-related sexual violence. Eight survivor-petitioners of the country’s 2007-08 post-election violence were joined in the case by four civil society organizations: the Coalition on […]
(New York / RDC) – Plus de 1 000 décès liés à Ebola ont désormais été confirmés depuis que l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) a déclaré une épidémie de maladie à virus Ebola le 15 mai 2026. Cette flambée, dont l’épicentre se situe, dans la province de l’Ituri en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), […]
Nairobi, Kenya — Nearly two decades after Kenya’s 2007-08 post-election violence, the Supreme Court will hear final arguments on July 29, 2026, in a case that will decide the government’s constitutional duty to protect survivors of sexual violence committed by non-state actors. The case concerns eight survivor-petitioners of election-related violence and originated before the High […]
