2018 saw an increase of over 8% in the number of refusals on this ground compared to 2017. Victims of this policy include a 15-year-old with venous thrombosis and a father of 11 with retinal...
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Lack of Protocol in DHS Release Plan Spells Danger for Migrants’ Health and Safety
New York, NY Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is gravely concerned at the sudden decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release hundreds of families from immigration detention...
Victory for human rights organizations in Israeli Supreme Court
Israel’s Supreme Court orders state to enable patients from Gaza to reach medical treatment, cancels policy preventing access to treatment due to alleged family ties to 'Hamas members' Yesterday...
The State's Position Dooms Gazan Patients
Dear friends, Israel's policy of bringing pressure to bear on Hamas by denying Gazan male and female patients permission to travel out of the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, even in...
Myanmar + 1 more
“Please Tell the World What They Have Done to Us” - The Chut Pyin Massacre: Forensic Evidence of Violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar
Executive Summary On August 27, 2017, Myanmar security forces and Rakhine Buddhist civilians attacked the village of Chut Pyin in northern Rakhine state, massacring its Rohingya Muslim residents and...
PHR Denounces Executive Order to Replace Separation of Children with Family Detention
Detention of children is inhumane. The United States must adopt community-based alternatives. President Trump has signed an Executive Order to end his own administration’s policy of separating...
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America’s Health Professionals Appeal to Trump Administration: End Family Separation at Border Immediately
Thousands of medical voices from across the United States have joined forces with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) to urge the Trump administration to immediately halt the separation of migrant and...
Yemen: Attacks on Health May 2018 Newsletter
Read the full newsletter here >> Summary Feb – May 2018 Despite efforts to renew peace talks, the Yemen conflict reached its third anniversary in March 2018 and has left 22 million people in need of...
The Oncologists Letter: Let Gaza Women Cancer Patients Out
Dear Friends, This morning, over thirty oncology specialists from Israeli hospitals called upon the Ministry of Health and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (CGAT) to allow...
Powerless to help: Physicians and Healthcare Professionals Talk about the Inconceivable Conditions in Gaza Hospitals - Position Paper, May 2018
On Monday, May 14, 2018, 57 people died and 1,114 were injured from live bullets, at least seventy of them severely or critically, in demonstrations along the fence with Gaza Strip. This brought the...
Medicine Supplies for Gaza
Thursday May 24th we supplied the hospitals in the Gaza Strip with medicines and disposable medical equipment at a cost of $70,000. The equipment provided is designated mainly for emergency and...
Syria + 22 more
Violence on the front line: Attacks on Health Care in 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2017, there were at least 701 attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients, and ambulances in 23 countries in conflict around the world. More than 101 health workers and 293...
Gaza: Treating Injured Demonstrators in the European Hospital
The situation at the European Hospital in Gaza as described by Head of Vascular Surgery, Dr. Abed Al-Majid Klub on April 20, 2018. The demonstrations along the border fence of the Gaza Strip in the...
Wounded in The Gaza Strip
The fact that the state refuses to let anyone leave for treatment merely on account of the circumstances of their injury, is an outrageously cruel act. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of...
PHRI's Struggle for Freedom of Movement for Gazan Women
PHRI held 3 house meetings in the course of March 2018 together with Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center. As part of our struggle for freedom of movement for Gazan women with cancer, PHRI held 3...
PHRI Emergency Delegation to the Gaza Strip
Physicians for Human Rights Israel’s delegation returned from the Gaza Strip after providing medical treatment to 380 patients and operating on 15 of them: “In the most advanced hospital in Gaza it...
Beyond Imagination: Seven Years of Conflict in Syria
Humanitarian Norms Ignored as Syria’s Civilian Health Deliberately Targeted PHR condemns escalation of attacks as conflict enters eighth year Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) released an issue brief...
Physicians for Human Rights Demands Access for All Humanitarian Aid to Besieged Syrian Area
Media Contact Josh Glasstetter phr@westendstrategy.com Tel: +1 917-679-0110 Condemns Stripping of Medical Supplies From Convoys Entering Eastern Ghouta A week after the UN Security Council...
Joint Statement: Medical and Humanitarian organizations use Three Billboards to call on UN to stop violence in Syria
Geneva, Switzerland - A coalition of medical and humanitarian organizations, some working inside besieged Eastern Ghouta, have urged the United Nations Security Council to vote for an immediate...
Israel: Record-Low in Gaza Medical Permits
Joint Statement: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Medical Aid for Palestinians & Physicians for Human Rights Israel Israel: Record-Low in Gaza Medical...