Suu Kyi ’s Denials Will Not Erase Crimes against Humanity Committed by Myanmar Military
PHR today denounced the refusal by the Myanmar leadership to accept responsibility for its part in the brutal and systematic killing and displacement of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - September 13, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New Attacks on Hospitals and Civilians in Idlib Signal Escalation in Syrian Conflict
hysicians for Human Rights (PHR) has received reports that three hospitals, two Syrian Civil Defense Centers, and an ambulance system were attacked and put out of service in the Idlib governorate, in the northwest part of Syria on September 6 and 7. In the last few weeks, government forces have been gathering south of Idlib and the Syrian government and its Russian ally resumed intensive airstrikes on the governorate and the northern countryside of neighboring Hama. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - September 10, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
U.S. National Security Advisor Attacks International Justice and Accountability
White House National Security Advisor, John Bolton, today called the International Criminal Court (ICC) “fundamentally illegitimate” and threatened to ban its judges and prosecutors from the United States. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - September 10, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Trump Administration Seeks to Detain Children Indefinitely
PHR today denounced the Trump administration ’s announcement that it would seek to evade its legal obligations under the Flores settlement, which limits the length of time that children can be detained and creates minimum standards for their housing and care. PHR said that defying the 1997 consent decree would place the administration square ly in breach of its legal obligations and violates international norms protecting the rights and wellbeing of children, refugees, and asylum seekers. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - September 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New Report Documents Scope, Scale, and Patterns of Anti-Rohingya Violence in Myanmar
In the final weeks before the 2017 Rohingya exodus from Myanmar, a new report indicates that the vast majority of Rohingya settlements suffered violence, often extreme, at the hands of Myanmar security forces and civilians. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - August 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
American Psychological Association Maintains Ban on Psychologists at Guantan ámo
The American Psychological Association (APA) today voted to keep a ban on military psychologists at Guantan ámo Bay prison, maintaining its firm ethical standards at detention sites that violate international law. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) called the vote a resounding victory for human rights. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - August 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Letter from former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez urging APA to maintain ban on military psychologists at Guantanamo
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Juan E. M éndez has issued a letter to the American Psychological Association (APA) in advance of its August 2018 annual meeting, urging it to reject the proposed amendment to its policy on the role of military and operational psychologists in detention facilities. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - August 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
PHR Signs Joint NGO Letter to APA Opposing Proposal to Weaken Anti-Torture Ethics Protections in National Security Detention for Psychologists
We, the undersigned human rights and civil liberties organizations, are deeply concerned that the American Psychological Association (APA) is considering rolling back critical protections instituted to safeguard psychologists from complicity in torture and abuse and to facilitate ethical and independent mental health care for detainees at the Guant ánamo Bay detention center.1 We urge the APA not to take that step. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - August 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Letter to APA Opposing Proposal to Weaken Anti-Torture Ethics Protections in National Security Detention for Psychologists
We write to express our deep concern over proposed changes to the American Psychological Association ’s (APA) policy on the role of psychologists in national security detention settings. This resolution, scheduled for a Council vote at the August 2018 meeting and closely monitored by the human rights community, would undermine APA’s hard-won position against torture and ill-treatment. We theref ore urge you to reject NBI 35B and instead continue on the path of supporting ethical practice and human rights protections for national security detainees. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - August 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Landmark Kavumu Appeal Verdict Upholds Convictions
welcomes today ’s appeal judgment delivered by the High Military Court in PHR welcomes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), confirming the conviction of 11 men, including a provincial lawmaker, who were found guilty in a 2017 trial of crimes against humanity for the rape of dozens of young girls as well a s for murder. As documented in this brief PHR video, some of the rape victims were as young as 18 months old. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - July 26, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
“Please Tell the World What They Have Done to Us”
A body of forensic medical evidence released today clearly indicates that Rohingya Muslims suffered grave human rights abuses at the hands of Myanmar security forces and Rakhine Buddhist civilians. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), who issued the evidence in a new report, said the actions should be investigated as crimes against humanity. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - July 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
PHR Echoes Concerns Raised by Homeland Security Health Experts about Family Detention
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) echoes today the serious concerns expressed by two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) medical experts who have spoken out about the inhumane policy of detaining migrant families. The physicians, who have served as longtime DHS consultants and who monitor family detention centers, warned that any planned expansion of family detention will place children and their families at imminent risk of further harm. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - July 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Survivors of International Crimes Still Await Justice on 20th Anniversary of Rome Statute
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today that the promise of justice for international crimes remains elusive 20 years after the adoption of the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Rome Statute, which provides the most comprehensive legal articulation of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, gave rise to a permanent international criminal court to intervene where states are either “unwilling or unable” to do so themselves. In the two decades since the adoption of the Rome Statute, the ICC has been thwarted by politics, the court’s cumbersome structure, and resource con...
Source: PHR Press Releases - July 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
As Fighting Intensifies, Daraa Civilians and Hospitals Must be Spared
Physicians for Human Rights is deeply concerned by the news of yet more indiscriminate attacks on health care sites in Syria. In less than a week, PHR has received credible reports of large-scale airstrikes on at least six hospitals in Daraa in the south of the country, including Al-Giza Hospital ’s emergency department, which was left completely destroyed after being targeted six times. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - July 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Physicians for Human Rights Condemns U.S. Attempt to Eliminate Legal Protections for Immigrant Children
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) condemned today ’s request by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to modify the 1997 Flores settlement agreement by seeking exemption from the requirements that children be kept in the least restrictive setting possible (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - June 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
