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These materials provide chapter members additional information to support health and human rights education on campus. The materials range from reports and articles to fact sheets and presentations, a number of which PHR created or contributed to. These resources can be utilized, for example, as supplementary readings for a discussion or as part of a presentation and lecture.
The Human Rights Framework & the Right to Health
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and All International Human Rights Law Treaties [19] (webpage)
- The Right to Health: A Toolkit for Health Professionals [18](Guide; BMA and Commonwealth Trust – webpage)
- The Right to Health Under International Law and its Relevance to the United States [17] (Article; American Journal of Public Health – pdf)
- The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health [15](Report; Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights – pdf)
- 25 Questions on Health & Human Rights [16] (World Health Organization – pdf)
- Impact Assessments, Poverty, and Human Rights; Study Using the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health [20] (Case Study; UNESCO – pdf)
Conflict
- Assessing Quality of Care and Responsiveness of Health Services for Women in Crises Settings [21] (WHO Case Study – pdf)
- Darfur—An Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution [25] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- PHR Files Suit Against Defense Department in FOIA Dispute Over Documents Concerning Dasht-e-Leili Mass Grave in Afghanistan [24] (PHR motion, download pdf from webpage)
- The Relevance of the Right to Health to Human Rights Strategies to End Armed Conflict [23] (pdf)
- Southern Iraq: Reports of Human Rights Abuses and Views on Justice, Reconstruction and Governance [22] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Suspected War Criminal Denies Involvement of Government of Sudan in Darfur [14] (PHR press release, webpage)
- Uncovering Truth in Afghanistan [13] (PHR webpage)
- Women’s Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population-Based Assessment [5] (PHR Report – pdf)
- War Crimes by Proxies: The Case of Afghanistan [4] (pdf)
Conflict & Medical Neutrality
- El Salvador: Health Care under Siege – Violations of Medical Neutrality During the Civil Conflict [3] (PHR Report – pdf)
- Doctors as Terrorists – A Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe [1] (webpage with link to related op-ed)
Health Systems
- An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain: Building Equitable Health Systems in Africa [2] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Africa’s Health-Care Brain Drain [6] (NYTimes editorial, webpage)
- African Ministers Commit to Universal Health Care by 2015 [7] (PHR fact sheet, related pdfs available on webpage)
- Bold Solutions to Africa’s Health Worker Shortage [12] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- G8: What Would an Effective Health Worker Plan Look Like? [11] (PHR, related pdfs available on webpage)
- Gates’s Grandest Challenge: Transcending Technology as Public Health Ideology [10] (Univ. of Toronto article in The Lancet, pdf)
- How Not to Count the Poor [8] (pdf)
- Investing in a Strong and Sustainable Workforce [9] (PHR fact sheet, pdf)
- The Right to Equal Treatment in the United States [26] (PHR Report, download pdfs from webpage)
HIV/AIDS
- Nigeria: Access to Health Care for People Living with HIV and AIDS [27] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Nigeria: New Study Reveals Discrimination by Health Professionals Against People Living with HIV/AIDS is Fueled by Fear of Infection, Lack of Protective Supplies [46](PHR Press Release, download pdf from webpage)
- Neglecting the Needles [45] (Washington Post op-ed, PHR webpage with pdf)
- Open Letter to 2008 Presidential Candidates on Global Health and HIV/AIDS [44] (PHR letter, download pdf from webpage)
- Health Rights = Healthy Women: A Commitment to Halt the Feminization of AIDS [42] (PHR Platform)
Torture, Detention, and Asylum
- Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by U.S. Personnel and Its Impact [43] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Break Them Down: Systematic Use of Psychological Torture by U.S. Forces [47] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality [48] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Congress Passes Measure Banning the CIA’s ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Techniques [52] (PHR press release, webpage)
- From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers [51] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Asylum Network Training: Physical Evidence of Torture – part 1 [50] / part 2 (5.1mb) [49] (PHR instruction information in two parts, pdfs)
- Manual in the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Istanbul Protocol) [41] (PHR Collaborative Guidelines, pdf)
- Breach of Trust: Physician Participation in Executions in the United States [40] (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Evaluating and Defending Survivors of Torture: An Introduction to the Asylum Process [32] (PHR factsheet, pdf)
- Iraq: Medical Consequences of Interrogation Techniques [31](PHR guiding principles, download pdf from webpage)
- Medical Investigation and Documentation of Torture [30](University of Essex Human Rights Center Guide, PDF 2.06 MB)
- A Report on Conditions at Shebarghan Prison, Northern Afghanistan [28] (PHR Report, pdf)
- Ten Steps to Restore the United States’ Moral Authority [29](PHR letter, download pdf from webpage)
- Testimony by PHR’s Vince Iacopino before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus [33] (webpage)
Maternal Health
- Maternal Mortality in Peru: An Urgent Human Rights IssueMaternal Mortality in Peru: An Urgent Human Rights Issue [34](PHR Report, pdf)(PHR Report, pdf)
- Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru [39](PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)(PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Deadly Delays: Human Rights and maternal Mortality in PeruDeadly Delays: Human Rights and maternal Mortality in Peru [38] (video, available from webpage) (video, available from webpage)
Medical Ethics
- Dual Loyalty and Human Rights in Health Professional Practice; Proposed Guidelines & Institutional Mechanisms [37](PHR/University of CapeTown Report, pdf)
- AAMC Viewpoint: “The Human Rights Imperative in Medical Education” [35] (Leonard S. Rubenstein, PHR President – AAMC webpage)
Please also visit our Online Digital Library [36] and the Physicians for Human Rights YouTube Channel [53] for additional educational materials and videos.
Quelle
- [1] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/letter-2007-07-12.html
- [2] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2004-july.html
- [3] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-1990-elsalvador.html
- [4] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/war-crimes-by-proxies.pdf
- [5] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/documents/reports/2002-afghanistan-report.pdf
- [6] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/opinion/13fri3.html?ex=1250136000&en=58f32de91fb1a954&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
- [7] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2005-11-01.html
- [8] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/how-not-to-count-the-poor.pdf
- [9] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hiv-aids/pdfs/fact-sheet-investment-need.pdf
- [10] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/gates-grandest-challenge.pdf
- [11] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2006-07-13.html
- [12] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-boldsolutions-2006.html
- [13] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/forensic/afghanistan.html
- [14] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2008-02-27.html
- [15] http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Reader/docs/GenCom14.pdf
- [16] http://www.who.int/hhr/NEW37871OMSOK.pdf
- [17] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/health-under-international.pdf
- [18] http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/RighttoHealthtoolkit
- [19] http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/index.htm
- [20] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/impact-assessments-poverty.pdf
- [21] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/assessing-quality-of-care.pdf
- [22] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2003-september.html
- [23] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/relevance-of-the-right.pdf
- [24] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2008-02-19.html
- [25] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-sudan-2006.html
- [26] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-equaltreatment-2003.html
- [27] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/nigeria-access-to-health.html
- [28] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/report-on-shebarghan.pdf
- [29] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/ten-steps-to-restore.html
- [30] http://www.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/pdf19/fco_humanrights_medicaltorture
- [31] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2004-05-14.html
- [32] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/evaluating-and-defending.pdf
- [33] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/testimony-2004-06-23-Iacopino.html
- [34] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/maternal-mortality-in-peru.pdf
- [35] http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/jan08/viewpoint.htm
- [36] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/
- [37] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/documents/reports/report-2002-duelloyalty-sect4.pdf
- [38] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/deadly-delays-video.html
- [39] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2007-11-28.html
- [40] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/Report-breachoftrust-1994.html
- [41] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/manual-effective-investigation.pdf
- [42] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/hiv-aids/issues/health-rights-healthy-women.html
- [43] http://brokenlives.info/?page_id=69
- [44] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/letter-2007-10-23.html
- [45] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/article-2003-08-21.html
- [46] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2006-08-17.html
- [47] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2005-may.html
- [48] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2007-08-02.html
- [49] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/asylum-training-part-2.pdf
- [50] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/students/hhr-ed/asylum-training-part-1.pdf
- [51] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-persprison.html
- [52] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2008-02-14.html
- [53] http://www.youtube.com/user/PHRvideo
These materials provide chapter members additional information to support health and human rights education on campus. The materials range from reports and articles to fact sheets and presentations, a number of which PHR created or contributed to. These resources can … Continue reading