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🏥 From #Ethiopia to #Gaza to #Ukraine, attacks on health care in conflict are on the rise 📈with devastating consequences for patients, health workers, and entire communities. #NotATarget
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Physicians for Human Rights
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Physicians for Human Rights
@P4HR
Through evidence, change is possible. ➡️ Follow our staff: goo.gl/PrZYs4
Joined August 2008
- So-called "nonlethal weapons" can have deadly effects. @washingtonpost looks at crowd-control weapons and their impacts from #Iraq to #Chile to #HongKong, highlighting @INCLOnet & PHR research: washingtonpost.com/world/2019/11/… via @MiriamABerger
- PHR condemns the wanton and excessive force perpetrated by Iran’s security forces against demonstrators amid mass protests across the country. New statement:
- #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar? ➡️ 2,574+ people detained ➡️ 510+ people killed ➡️ 100+ health workers arrested ➡️ 36+ hospitals occupied Today, we're calling on @SecBlinken to take immediate action to address the public health & human rights crisis in #Myanmar. Read our letter 👇
- Medics are under siege in Myanmar. "@RahaWala, of PHR, said the military was 'systematically persecuting medics,' both for treating anti-coup protesters and, in the case of many government doctors, for participating in a national strike."
- "Our patients are not getting basic medicines like antibiotics, IV fluids, oxygen... Being the one to tell them that you cannot help them, that they are going to die soon, as a firsthand witness as a physician is very heartbreaking." -Dr. Fasika Amdeslasie
- The “cumulative severity of the pain and suffering inflicted on Mr. #Assange—both physical and psychological—is in violation of the 1984 Convention Against Torture,” says Dr. @sondracrosby16 who also serves as as PHR Torture Documentation Advisor. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
- Thanks for showing us how you mask up, @MariahCarey! 😷 Match with Mariah and get your own #BecauseScience mask at phr.org/mask🎶 We're all in this together 🎶 and we must help curb the spread of #COVID19. Wearing masks is an effective way to do so! 😷😷😷 I wear a mask #BecauseScience is real and I follow public health officials and medical experts like @P4HR. phr.org/mask
- #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar? 178 reported incidents of violence against health workers 157 health workers arrested 73 raids on hospitals 32 health workers injured 12 health workers killed See our fact sheet with @CPHHR & @InsecurityInsig: phr.org/our-work/resou…
- At an @ICEgov detention center, women with cancer are being denied treatment. Others have attempted suicide. "It’s only a matter of time before someone dies at Karnes," says @RAICESTEXAS' Andrea Meza. More in this must-read piece by @angelinachapin
- The facts are clear: The U.S. government’s treatment of asylum seekers through family separation constitutes cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and, in all cases evaluated by PHR experts, constitutes torture and enforced disappearance. phr.org/our-work/resou… #Debates2020
- BREAKING: New investigation published today finds that the U.S. government’s forcible separation of asylum-seeking families constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment and, in all cases @P4HR evaluated, meets criteria for torture. Statement: phr.org/news/asylum-se…
- Physicians for Human Rights is appalled by this latest wave of violence by the Myanmar military, including the invasion and occupation of public hospitals and wanton excessive force against civilians. New statement:
