Since the start of a genocidal campaign in 2003 by the Sudanese government and its allied militias in Darfur, Sudan, three million people have been displaced and tens of thousands have fled the fighting into refugee camps in neighboring Chad. There, rather than living in safety and security, many have continued to suffer sexual and […]
To the more than 2,200 of you who have urged your Senators to protect women's rights and women's health by Ratifying CEDAW: Thank You!We are more than halfway through the 10,000 in 10 Campaign, and really need your help to reach our goal of 10,000 signatures to support CEDAW. To those of you who have […]
The Save Darfur Coalition honored Darfuri women refugees at the Farchana Camp in Chad to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25 and to kick off a global campaign of activism against gender-based violence.Women refugees in Farchana Camp in eastern Chad drew up a groundbreaking, one-page women’s empowerment […]
Last Friday, the PHR team delivered to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a joint advocacy letter, urging that sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) programming be recognized as an urgent need in Sudan. Forty advocacy and human rights groups called on Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sudan Envoy Scott Gration to recognize the absence of vital SGV […]
The UN reported last week that six aid groups have suspended operations in eastern Chad. Nearly 300,000 Darfuri refugees have fled across the the Sudan-Chad border to escape violence in Darfur. Among the groups suspending operations are the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which reported the kidnapping of a French ICRC worker and […]
You may have seen the news last week that the Obama Administration unveiled its long-awaited Sudan policy.PHR welcomed the renewed sense of urgency in the policy but took a skeptical position on the Khartoum genocidal regime's ability to fulfill the role of trusted partner envisioned in the new policy.The new policy relies heavily on offering […]
The "Make Believe" exhibit is totally amazing. I urge all PHR supporters, and their friends and family, to visit the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston on September 17 for their "Third Thursday event" so you can see what all the buzz is about."Make Believe" opened this past Saturday with a wine and cheese reception. […]
Wednesday, August?5, 2009 4:00?p.m. Amnesty International USA Presents: The Ongoing Crisis in Darfur Land Hall,?Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, 79 JFK St., Cambridge Speakers: Eric Reeves (Smith College) and Sondra Crosby, MD (Boston Medical Center and Physicians for Human Rights) The panel will explore: What is the current US policy on the Darfur […]
This week, congressional hearings will give the crisis in Darfur the attention it deserves. Using the script below, call your Senator today to urge them to ask the tough questions and demand a US plan of action on Darfur (instructions below the jump).The United States has been without a comprehensive strategy for Sudan for too […]
Sondra Crosby, MD is one of the four members of the Physicians for Human Rights field team that went to the Farchana refugee camp in Chad last November to gather the data for the new PHR report, Nowhere to Turn: Failure to Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women. Boston Globe reporter James F. […]
Darfuri women in Chad, carrying sticks and water (Kirsten Johnson) This is not my country. We get raped when we leave the camp. In my village, we could do what we wanted and there was enough food. I want to go back to my village, but it’s still not safe. This is one of 88 […]
PHR CEO Frank Donaghue has a powerful op-ed in today’s Armenian Weekly. From 1915 to 1923, more than 1.5 million Armenians were killed and half a million survivors exiled by the Turkish government of the Ottoman Empire. April 24 marks the 94th anniversary of this tragedy that became a template for subsequent genocides. Donaghue writes: […]
Karen Hirschfeld, PHR's Sudan Campaign Director, speaks about the crisis in Darfur (Jared Voss/PHR) Women took center stage yesterday at Crisis in Darfur, a breakfast panel at the National Press Club, both as speakers and as figures in the peace process. The event was co-hosted by PHR and the Nobel Women's Initiative. Karen Hirschfeld, PHR's […]
Head on over to DarfuriWomen.org to watch the webcast from 8:30 to 10:00 am today (4/14), at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Physicians for Human Rights and the Nobel Women’s Initiative are holding a breakfast panel discussion featuring some of the leading experts on Sudan. The panel includes PHR’s own Karen Hirschfeld, Darfur […]
Darfuri women in a refugee camp in Chad. (Photo by Michael Wadleigh, gritty.org for Physicians for Human Rights) People are worried about Sudan. Following the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Omar Al-Bashir, nearly all humanitarian organizations were expelled from the country. Overcrowded refugee camps in Sudan and neighboring Chad offer little hope for […]
After Dr. Ahmed visited us at PHR on Monday, he was interviewed by Boston Globe reporter James F. Smith, who blogged the Dr. Ahmed's comments yesterday and adapted the piece for a newspaper feature today. [Dr. Ahmed] said that after visiting with decision-makers in Washington, he is worried that the Obama Administration still lacks a […]
Mohammed Ahmed Abadallah, MD, from Darfur, speaks to PHR staff and guests. (Ben Greenberg/PHR) In the face of a rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis in Darfur, PHR staff met yesterday with our friend and colleague Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, MD, a physician and Professor of Medicine at el-Fasher University in Darfur, Sudan and a member of the […]
Violence and rape have become hallmarks of the lives of Darfuri women. Many women were raped in the torrent of violence that forced them to flee their villages. And the risk of violence is still all-too-real — many are assaulted when leaving the camps to gather the wood they need to cook food for their […]
