Protecting Asylum-Seekers: Calling Attention to the Consequences of Electronic Ankle Monitoring
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Physicians for Human Rights Student Program
PHR Student Advisory Board
- Oct 16, 2022
- 3 min
PHR Student Advisory Board Statement on Human Rights Violations in Iran
The Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Student Advisory Board (SAB) stands in solidarity with the people of Iran who are calling for the...
PHR Student Advisory Board
- Sep 11, 2021
- 2 min
PHR Student Advisory Board Statement on the Unfolding Crisis in Afghanistan
We, the students of the PHR National Student Advisory Board (SAB), are deeply heartbroken as we watch the events in Afghanistan unfold...
PHR Student Advisory Board
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
Statement on Violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
May 28, 2021 In response to the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli government on Palestinians for protesting Israeli apartheid,...
Rishab Chawla
- May 2, 2021
- 4 min
Oppose Global Vaccine Apartheid
The case for vaccinating the globe is evident — millions of lives are more important than pharmaceutical profits or intellectual property...
Harvard Student Human Rights Collaborative
- Apr 21, 2021
- 4 min
A Call to End the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Yemen
Sara Al-Zubi, Kei McHale, Leah Sarah Peer, Laasya Vallabhaneni, Brett Nelson We are students at Harvard Medical School and faculty at...
Asmaa Rimawi, Anand Chukka, Lianet Vazquez
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
Call to Action: Vaccine Equity in Israel-Palestine
By Asmaa Rimawi, Anand Chukka, and Lianet Vazquez We are students at Harvard Medical School concerned about the state of health in the...
PHR Student Advisory Board
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
PHR: Violent Political Insurrectionists Must be Held Accountable
Below is an excerpt from a statement by Donna McKay, PHR's executive director, in response to the insurrection at the United States...
Columbia Human Rights Initiative
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Tigray Crisis: Millions in Ethiopia At Risk
As the news cycle in the United States is dominated by the aftermath of the presidential election and the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Veena
- Nov 3, 2020
- 3 min
What the U.S. Election Means for Rural America
Disclaimer: Physicians for Human Rights is a non-partisan organization that works at the intersection of medicine, science, and law to...
Nicole Lue
- Sep 16, 2020
- 6 min
Nightmare on Peach Street: The Horrendous State of Georgia's Detention Centers
Located less than 10 miles outside the heart of Atlanta lies Clarkston, Georgia, a city celebrated for its ethnic diversity. Clarkston...
Racheed Mani
- Jul 30, 2020
- 5 min
Mental Health Afflictions of Children in the Middle East
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and protests worldwide against racial injustice, one thing has not changed: the fact that armed conflict and...
Chris Diaz
- Jul 8, 2020
- 4 min
The United States' Youth Detention System Poses Serious Threats to Health Care
There are over 43,00 youth currently held in juvenile detention and correctional facilities across the United States. Long before the...
Rebecca Leff
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Don't Separate Migrant Children from their Parents
As a medical trainee who works with children and families, I am encouraged by the order to release children who have been held for more...
Leah Sarah Peer
- Jun 4, 2020
- 4 min
The Imprisonment of Pregnant Women under COVID-19
Andrea Circle Bear, an inmate imprisoned on account of drug charges, passed away after giving birth on Tuesday, April 28th while on a...
Racheed Mani
- May 26, 2020
- 5 min
COVID-19 in Gaza: The Need to Lift the Blockade
As the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic and cases and fatalities rise daily, these times call for essential geopolitical...
Laila Fozouni, Parsa Erfani
- May 6, 2020
- 4 min
'Maximum Pressure' Sanctions Threaten Patients' Right to Health
Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties used by countries to restrict trade or transactions with specific entities of...
Tristan Mackey, Thomas Pak
- Apr 30, 2020
- 4 min
Immigrants Are at Particular Risk of COVID-19. Here's What Congress Can Do.
Physicians, residents, and medical students around the country are seeking signatures for Congress to take action for immigrants in light...
Assessing Medical Students’ Understanding and Knowledge of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
What Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers? Pregnancy Counseling Centers, also referred to as crisis pregnancy centers (CPC) or pregnancy resource...
Michael Dorritie, Michelle Munyikwa, Shefali Sood
- Mar 31, 2020
- 4 min
Close the Camps in the Time of COVID-19
There are over 200 ICE detention facilities across the United States, where detainees often spend months to years awaiting their...
Michael Dorritie
- Feb 14, 2020
- 4 min
Gun Violence Requires Medical Intervention
109. This is the number of people who died each day from firearms in the U.S. in 2017, the most recent year for which the CDC has...
Natasha Sood, MPH
- Nov 13, 2019
- 5 min
Medical Students Strike for Climate
Millions of students around the world are striking for the defining issue of our generation. And as medical students we strike because...
Michael Dorritie, Thomas Pak, Pauline Huynh
- Oct 27, 2019
- 5 min
Medical Students Stand Against the Mandatory DNA Collection of Immigrants for Non-Violent Crimes
On October 21st, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a ruling to mandate DNA collection of immigrants who come between official...
Thomas Pak, Neha Siddiqui, Courtney Harris
- Aug 31, 2019
- 6 min
Detained Migrants Have a Right to Proper Medical Care
Advocating for the humane treatment of detained migrants As medical students who will all take an oath to uphold the highest standard of...
Thomas Kuczmarski
- Feb 22, 2019
- 4 min
The Opioid Epidemic: The Ongoing Crisis and Ways to Improve It
For the first time in over 50 years, U.S. life expectancy decreased for the second consecutive year in 2017. This decline is in part due...
Shefali Sood
- Jan 15, 2019
- 4 min
Healthcare in Incarcerated Populations – a Medical Student Perspective
For a well-functioning society, it is necessary to have a government, schools, hospitals, recreational centers and other amenities. The...
Michelle Munyikwa, Advocacy Committee
- Nov 27, 2018
- 4 min
Act now: the proposed public charge rule
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights begins from the premise that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and...
Eden Almasude
- Feb 20, 2017
- 3 min
Medicine is a Call to Political Action: Torture and Our Refugee Patients
As we progress in our clinical training, we accumulate stories. We carry the stories of patients who have changed us in unforgettable...
Anne Phan-Huy
- Feb 20, 2017
- 3 min
Shelter for asylum seekers is denied federal funding | 4 ways you can take action
"Freedom House has been a key partner with the University of Michigan's Asylum Clinic since its inception in 2013. Our partnership has...
PHR Student Advisory Board
- Nov 22, 2016
- 3 min
Gun Violence as a Human Rights Issue
We, the student branch of Physicians for Human rights, urge healthcare professionals to view gun violence not ONLY as a public health...
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