Doctors Against Torture

Theresa talks Turkey

Our PM’s round of after-Brexit trade meetings kicked off in January with President Erdogan of Turkey, a man much in need of international admirers, not to mention international arms traders. Turkey […]

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Saudi Arabia and the Human Rights Council

In the eternal struggle between profit and decency the doctor is sure that the government will keep human rights at the top of the agenda, even when dealing with Saudi […]

Human Rights

UK suspends admission of disabled child refugees

Less than six months since it was meant to begin, […]

Human Rights

Madaya, Syria, under siege

“We can’t take it anymore. Why is there no help for us?” Khaled, Madaya. It seems that there is no sense of shame, no humanity, no sense of outrage in […]

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Wandering Afghan Children

The end of the Dubs amendment is more bad news for Afghanistan’s wandering children, no longer welcome anywhere. Over 50,000 unaccompanied Afghan children sought asylum in Europe in 2015-16, although […]

Human Rights

Trump’s ban and the law

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on 27 January, suspending refugee admissions and banning travel from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days, and suspending […]

Human Rights

Torture Doesn’t Work

President Trump has threatened to reinstate torture as U.S. policy. Human Rights organisations are committed to holding torturers accountable. President Trump says that “torture works” (1,2). His office has released a […]

Human Rights

Trump, torture and the CIA: Did torture ‘work’? The CIA’s detention and intelligence programme 2001-2009

This is the executive summary of the Senate Select Committee […]

Human Rights

Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı : Freedom in Turkey

If Turkey can imprison prosecute a decent, honest, respected medical professional like Dr Financı it is because they think her dangerous to their vision of Turkey. The only danger posed by honesty, fairness and the evidence-based pursuit of an open human rights agenda is to those who abuse the power they hold and the people they are there to serve.

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Cluster Bombs – are they banned or not?

We are hearing about the extensive use of cluster bombs in Syria, and now in Yemen. The annual meeting of parties to the international treaty banning cluster munitions, on September 7 […]

Human Rights

War Crimes: attacks on medical facilities in Syria, facts and data from PHR

PHR has mapped 400 attacks against 276 separate medical facilities […]

Human Rights

The UN, still a force for good

Despite relentless condemnation by the UN, the world seems to have failed Syria, reduced to rubble by an assortment of parties with political and sectarian motives, generally with little or no […]

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UNCAT publishes it conclusions on Sri Lanka

The UN Committee Against Torture has just finished meeting in Geneva. It is made up of 10 independent experts. They concluded that the Sri Lankan government has yet to implement […]

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Convoy to Aleppo : the first crowdfunded hospital in the world

East Aleppo is on its knees. Doing nothing is unbearable. We, the people standing by watching this humanitarian disaster unfold, are getting together to fund a hospital on a convoy. It leaves London on December 17th. It needs £91,000. Please donate.

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The International Criminal Court Tries a former Child Soldier Dominic Ongwen

The first former child soldier to go on trial at […]

Human Rights

Aleppo, how can you help?

Over the past five years in Syria, attacks on health care infrastructure and personnel have been a stark part of the civil war. PHR (Physicians for Human Rights) has documented 373 attacks on […]

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