Overcoming Climate Apathy in Medical Education
Overcoming Climate Apathy in Medical Education (Physicians for Human Rights Student Advisory Board, Climate Change Committee 2022-2023)...
Statement on the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and Israel
As medical students of PHR’s Student Advisory Board, we are committed to the promotion and advancement of human rights. This includes...
Protecting Asylum-Seekers: Calling Attention to the Consequences of Electronic Ankle Monitoring
By Marie T. Mazzeo Every day, refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants leave the only homes they have ever known in search of a better...
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 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...
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,...
Oppose Global Vaccine Apartheid
The case for vaccinating the globe is evident — millions of lives are more important than pharmaceutical profits or intellectual property...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...