Topic: Physicians for Human Rights
MANAMA (Reuters) - Three non-governmental groups said Bahrain must halt human rights violations and a crackdown on hospitals where doctors and patients suspected of having joined pro-democracy protests were being arrested.Last month, the Sunni-led Gulf Arab kingdom crushed mainly Shi'ite protests ...
MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain has arrested and beaten a prominent human rights activist and members of his family, a rights group said on Saturday, after the kingdom launched a sweeping crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.Bahrain saw the worst sectarian clashes since the 1990s ...
The Myanmar junta has been commiting abuses in a remote state that need a crimes against humanity investigation, an international rights group said Wednesday.The Physicians for Human Rights group trained volunteers to survey hundreds of families in Chin state, many of ...
Doctors in the US have taken part in experiments on detainees to refine alleged torture techniques, claim human rights activists.. The CIA has admitted that it used waterboarding on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in the ...
A prominent physicians group is charging that medical personnel were used to test and refine the effectiveness of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques for terror detainees in U.S. custody under the guise of safeguarding their health.Physicians for Human Rights ...
The swearing-in of the new Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin, is bringing back criticisms of her that have been swirling since she was appointed this summer. For most, not her credentials-she set up a medical clinic in Alabama for the poor after Hurricane ...
The article states that Iranian HIV/AIDS physicians Kamiar and Arash Alaei were sentenced to imprisonment by Tehran's Revolutionary Court for studying public health in the U.S. and receiving funds for their AIDS clinics from international donors. Wade, President Barack ...
A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a " central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects.Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued its six-page white paper after shocking ...
Doctors group finds rape common against Darfur women, urges international warrantsA survey of dozens of women who fled violence in Darfur found that a third of them reported or showed signs of rape, and revealed a widespread fear of sexual violence in ...
Tale of a Gaza family's week in hiding: They ate dry bread, treated wounds with saltwater and rigged a battery to charge their cell phones.It took a week of phone calls to the Israeli army, both from Israeli human rights ...
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Obama Supports Brutal Crackdown in Bahrain ...
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Guantanamo: Separation in the Real World
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Health Care: Zimbabwe's Luxury Item
Zimbabwes economy is in ruins. Disease runs rampant. The public ...2009-02-23
