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Consultancy: End-Term Evaluation of the Grand Challenges Canada (GCC)-Funded Project on MediCapt

Consultancy: End-Term Evaluation of the Grand Challenges Canada (GCC)-Funded Project on MediCapt Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), which shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, is a U.S.-based international advocacy organization working at the intersection of medicine, science, and law. With a global network of thousands of medical, scientific, and legal experts, PHR uses […]

November 13, 2025

Kimberly Saltz

Kimberly Saltz is a Legal Fellow at Physicians for Human Rights. She uses legal advocacy to reform policies, practices, and laws that undermine and violate human rights standards. Prior to joining PHR, she was a member of the Justice in Public Safety Project at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where she worked on policy and […]

November 3, 2025
Press Release

Millions Suffer in Humanitarian Crisis as World Leaders Meet at Paris Summit on Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): PHR

As leaders from Africa’s Great Lakes region and around the world meet in Paris this week to address the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) warns of an escalating humanitarian and health crisis, including immense violence, mass displacement, infectious disease, and acute malnutrition.   Conflict related sexual violence is also surging in the region, with more than 11,000 new cases of sexual violence […]

October 27, 2025
Sexual Violence
Statements

Survivors of Post-Election Sexual Violence Appeal to Supreme Court After Partial Victory at Court of Appeal

On 11 September 2025, survivors of post-election sexual violence (PESV) and civil society organizations filed a partial appeal to the Supreme Court of Kenya. The appeal challenges the Court of Appeal’s 8 August 2025 judgment in Civil Appeal E645 of 2021, which acknowledged the State’s constitutional and international obligation to protect citizens from sexual and gender-based […]

October 2, 2025
Sexual Violence

Senior Accountant (Sr. Accounting Coordinator)

Senior Accountant (Sr. Accounting Coordinator) Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), which shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, is a U.S.-based international advocacy organization working at the intersection of medicine, science, and law. With a global network of thousands of medical, scientific, and legal experts, PHR uses the power of medical and scientific evidence […]

October 2, 2025
Multimedia, Webinar

Webinar: The Ripple Effects of Abortion Bans Across Medical Specialties

Webinar: The Ripple Effects of Abortion Bans Across Medical Specialties Moderated by Alice Miranda Ollstein, senior health care reporter for POLITICO. Panelists: Recorded on September 30, 2025. Explore PHR’s new research documenting how abortion bans are limiting clinicians’ ability to provide care across a wide range of specialties in the United States.

September 30, 2025
Reproductive Justice
Press Release

Study: U.S. State Abortion Bans Lead to ‘Cascading Harms’ Across Various Medical Fields, from Oncology to Neurology 

U.S. state abortion bans are disrupting medical care across many fields of medicine and resulting in substandard, discriminatory health care, according to a Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) research brief published today. PHR calls on federal and state policymakers to defend and strengthen national and state protections for abortion access and urge the U.S. Food and Drug […]

September 30, 2025
Reproductive Justice
Press Release

ICE Subjected 10,500+ People to Solitary Confinement over 14 Months as the Cruel Practice Surges: Report

ICE placed at least 10,588 people in solitary confinement from April 2024-May 2025 and solitary confinement rates are surging under the Trump administration, according to a new report published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), the Peeler Immigration Lab, and experts at Harvard Law School. As the crisis in immigration detention facilities across the […]

September 17, 2025
Asylum

Mark Storella

Ambassador (ret.) Mark C. Storella was a United States Foreign Service Officer for over three decades serving as Ambassador to Zambia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, and Dean of the Leadership and Management School of the Foreign Service Institute. Other postings include Deputy Chief of Mission in Brussels, at the […]

September 5, 2025
Press Release

Trump Administration Disruptions to Global HIV Efforts Have Caused Severe Harms, But Congress Can Still Preserve Live-Saving Programs: New PHR Research

Trump administration disruptions to the U.S. government’s global HIV/AIDS program PEPFAR have caused severe harms – including previously unreported impacts on stigma, physical violence, and public trust – to people in Tanzania and Uganda, according to a new research brief published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Ahead of PEPFAR reauthorization negotiations in Congress […]

September 3, 2025
U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts
Press Release

PHR Files Amicus Brief in Lawsuit Aiming to Reverse the Cuts to Foreign Assistance and Destruction of USAID

The Trump administration’s sudden funding freezes and cuts on foreign aid and the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have already caused severe damage to the health of people around the world – and “threaten catastrophic harms” to global health in the years ahead, warn Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), the Open […]

August 22, 2025
U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts
Statements

Millions of Starving Palestinians in Gaza Need Urgent Food and Medical Assistance: Joint Statement 

Israel must immediately lift its restrictions on food to some 2 million people in Gaza –  including the entire population of 320,000 children under the age of five – and ensure the delivery of medical supplies and other aid necessary to address mass starvation, said Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Global Human Rights Clinic […]

August 12, 2025
Attacks on Health Care, Mass Atrocities
Press Release

Brutal Reproductive Violence “Systematic, Deliberate, and Ongoing” in Ethiopia: Report

Combatants in Ethiopia have perpetrated widespread, systematic, and deliberate acts of conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence, according to a new report published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Organization for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa (OJAH).  The new report (“You Will Never Be Able to Give Birth”: Conflict-Related Sexual […]

July 31, 2025
Sexual Violence
Report

“You Will Never Be Able to Give Birth”: Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence in Ethiopia

The conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia started in November 2020 between the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), with involvement from Eritrean military forces who were called into to support Ethiopian armed forces, and numerous ethno-regional militia groups notably from the Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia. The conflict was marked by […]

July 31, 2025
Reproductive Justice, Sexual Violence
Statements

Bashar Al-Assad Can be Prosecuted in France, but the Court Missed an Opportunity to Make History: Joint Statement

Disponible en français ici. متوفر باللغة العربية هنا. While the undersigned organizations welcome the long-awaited recognition that functional immunities are not an obstacle to prosecution in the presence of international crimes, they regret that the French Cour de cassation invalidated the arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad while he was still President of Syria.   In the […]

July 25, 2025
Chemical Weapons
Press Release

U.S. Aid Cuts Lead to Preventable Deaths, Medicine Shortages, Health Worker Layoffs in Kenya and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): New PHR Research

The abrupt and sweeping cuts to U.S. global health support has led to preventable deaths, shortages of medicines, and reduced access to services for vulnerable communities in both Kenya and Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to two new research briefs published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).  “Sexual violence survivors unable to access […]

July 24, 2025
U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts
Brief

Abandoned in Crisis: The Impact of U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The United States has historically been the largest provider of humanitarian assistance and bilateral support to the health sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), contributing billions of dollars annually through mechanisms such as United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Health Security […]

July 24, 2025
U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts
Brief

“The System is Folding in on Itself”: The Impact of U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts in Kenya

The United States (U.S.) has historically been a major supporter of public health initiatives in Kenya. From 2020– 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) committed approximately $2.5 billion in foreign assistance to Kenya (approximately $470 million per year) with 80 percent allocated for health-related programs. In January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump […]

July 24, 2025
U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts
Statements

Joint Statement: After 13 Years of Delays, Four Survivors of Post-Election Sexual Violence Finally Receive Compensation from Government of Kenya

In a historic move, the Government of Kenya has paid 16 million Kenyan shillings (approx. USD $124,000) in compensation to four of the eight survivors of sexual violence in Petition 122 of 2013, marking the first time in Kenya’s history that survivors of conflict-related sexual violence are receiving official compensation for the harm they endured. […]

July 18, 2025
Sexual Violence
Press Release

U.S. Rescissions Package Threatens Devastating Consequences for Global Health: PHR

The U.S. House of Representatives vote to approve the Trump administration’s proposed rescissions package – clawing back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending, including $8 billion for foreign aid – will have immediate, profound, and devastating consequences on global health, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today.   “The rescission bill and broader cuts to global […]

July 18, 2025
Press Release

“Brutal Milestone”: 2000 Attacks on Ukraine’s Hospitals, Clinicians, and Health Infrastructure Since Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion

Ukraine has endured 2000 attacks on the country’s health care system, according to documentation and monitoring by human rights and humanitarian organizations. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 Ukraine has experienced:  “This brutal milestone and pattern of attacks clearly illustrates the Russian Federation’s aim to eliminate Ukrainians’ access to life-saving medical care and create […]

July 17, 2025
Attacks on Health Care

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