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0Achieving the MDGs by Investing in Human Resources for Health and The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning
Access to healthcare depends in large part on the ability and distribution of a country’s health workforce. Investments that sidestep the training, payment and supervision of healthcare workers do not build the overall health system.
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Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh
In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion and forced internment against Burmese refugees. In this emergency report, PHR presents new data and documents dire conditions for these pe
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From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers.
Asylum seekers who come to the U.S. to escape torture, persecution, violence or abuse are often locked up in inhuman conditions. PHR conducted the first systematic and comprehensive study about the impact of detention on asylum seekers’ mental health.
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Books
Health and Human Rights: A Reader
These texts are often used in health and human rights courses. Both are comprehensive anthologies of foundational essays on health and human rights, and examine issues from ethnic cleansing to women’s reproductive rights.
Jonathan Mann, Michael A. Grodin, Sofia Gruskin, and George J. Annas. (1999)
0Perspectives on Health and Human Rights
These texts are often used in health and human rights courses. Both are comprehensive anthologies of foundational essays on health and human rights, and examine issues from ethnic cleansing to women’s reproductive rights.
Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin, George J. Annas, and Stephen P. Marks. (2005)
0The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Koff takes the reader inside her life as a forensic anthropologist to see what it’s like to excavate mass graves and build evidence of human rights violations. PHR’s International Forensic Program relies on these skills in Afghanistan, Central America, an
Clea Koff
0The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
This dramatic narrative reveals the decisions behind the controversial excesses of the war on terror and considers the impact of these choices. For more background and an update, visit PHR’sreports on torture of US detainees.
Jane Mayer
0The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire
Dr. Baiev was caught in the the struggle between Chechnya and Russia. Regardless of their nationality or whether civilian or military, he treated everybody under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Considered a traitor to both sides, he was called a
Khassan Baiev and Ruth Daniloff
0The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Described by various PHR staff as “fantastic,” “riveting,” and “devastating and totally addictive,” this describes the clash of two cultures over a child’s health. Anne Fadiman writes with the insight of an anthropologist and the compassion of a friend. I
Anne Fadiman
0Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health,
As in another of Garrett’s massive tomes, The Coming Plague, Garrett uses investigative reporting to analyze public health preparedness.
Laurie Garrett
0Reports
Achieving the MDGs by Investing in Human Resources for Health and The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning
Access to healthcare depends in large part on the ability and distribution of a country’s health workforce. Investments that sidestep the training, payment and supervision of healthcare workers do not build the overall health system.
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Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh
In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion and forced internment against Burmese refugees. In this emergency report, PHR presents new data and documents dire conditions for these pe
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From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers.
Asylum seekers who come to the U.S. to escape torture, persecution, violence or abuse are often locked up in inhuman conditions. PHR conducted the first systematic and comprehensive study about the impact of detention on asylum seekers’ mental health.
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Articles
Health and Human Rights
Health and Human Rights is published by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. The original editor-in-chief was Jonathan Mann, succeed by Sofia Gruskin and then Paul Farmer, all pioneers in the field. By posing the question, “Wh
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Health and Human Rights Education in U.S. Schools of Medicine and Public Health: Current Status and Future Challenges,
L. Emily Cotter et al. PHR’s Senior Medical Advisor Vince Iacopino and the other authors evaluated obstacles to health and human rights education at schools of medicine and public health across the country.
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Health and Human Rights,
Jonathan Mann et al. A close look at the complementary ways that health and human rights define and advance human well-being: The Impact of Health Policies, Programs and Practices on Human Rights Health Impacts Resulting from Violations of Human Right
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The Challenge of Global Health
Garrett’s critique of misdirected investment in global health got a strong reaction from the media and the global health establishment. Don’t miss the exchange between Paul Farmer and Laurie Garrett. Although the funding and policy environment has evolved
Laurie Garrett
0Films
Standard Operating Procedure
Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed Americas image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evide
Director: Errol Morris
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Torturing Democracy
The documentary TORTURING DEMOCRACY tells the story of how the United States government circumvented tradition and law to adopt torture as official policy. The film, produced by award-winning filmmaker Sherry Jones, draws on interviews, archival footage,
Producer: Sherry Jones
0Following Antigone: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights Investigations
The film exposes the use of forensic sciences, including anthropology, to uncover the truth of massacres, disappearances, and other gross violations of human rights as a means to help the families of victims recover the remains of their loved ones and pro
Produced by: EEAF
0Outlawed: extraordinary rendition, torture and disappearances in the “War on Terror”
This film tells the harrowing stories of Khaled El-Masri and Binyam Mohamed, two men who have survived extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture by the U.S. government working with various other governments worldwide. Outlawed places the pos
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Human Rights in Burma: A Compilation of Videos from Burma Issues and WITNESS
Over forty million people in Burma are living under the brutal military dictatorship of Than Shwe and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Many are engaged in a struggle against this oppression, and for freedom and democracy. The videos in this
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Operation Fine Girl: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone
The systematic use of rape against women and girls in conflicts around the world is one of the most shocking and under-reported war crimes, and its use in the 10-year Sierra Leone Civil War was particularly brutal. Operation Fine Girl looks at the conflic
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Burma VJ
Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of
Directed By: Anders Ostergaard
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Garbage Dreams
Documentaries about impoverished communities around the globe -- in Latin America, Africa and Asia -- feature heart wrenching images of children picking their way through garbage dumps to gather food to eat or material goods to sell. But nothing quite com
Produced by: Mai Iskander
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Living in Emergency
In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. With different levels of experience, each volunteer must find their own way to face the challenges, th
Produced by Mark Hopkins
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One Water
The documentary One Water assesses the deficiency of potable, safe water on a global scale. The movie highlights how communities across the world are dramatically suffering from a lack of our most valuable resource, thanks to drought, pollution and other
0Critical Condition
What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance? Critical Condition by Roger Weisberg (Waging a Living, POV 2006) puts a human face on the nation's growing health care crisis by capturing the harrowing st
Produced by: Roger Weisberg
0The Heroes
This special program presents the stories of unsung champions who protect people worldwide from the ravages of threatening disease. Using highlights from the six-hour series, this special focuses on the individual heroes whose tireless perseverance saves
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Disease Warriors
Before there was an understanding of infectious disease, few weapons were available to fight it. Disease Warriors chronicles the groundbreaking work of early researchers, such as the famed scientist Louis Pasteur, who unmasked germs as the source of illne
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Rise of the Superbugs
It's difficult to imagine a world without medicines — and yet, before the twentieth century there weren't any. The discovery of the very first antibiotic, penicillin, and the subsequent development of more "wonder drugs" transformed the face of modern med
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Delivering the Goods
At the dawn of the 21st century, we can prevent, treat or cure most of the deadliest diseases known to humankind — and yet millions die needlessly every year because the benefits of modern medicine and public health fail to reach them. What are the obstac
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Deadly Messengers
Since the plague killed millions of Europeans in the Middle Ages, vector-borne diseases — those that rely on insects and animals to spread infectious agents — have posed a serious threat to public health. Today, the most dangerous vector on earth is the m
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Back to the Basics
Ever since sailors noticed that scurvy could be prevented with citrus fruits, it has been clear that illness could be caused by a lack of certain nutrients. While nutrient-enriched products have reduced diseases caused by vitamin deficiency in the develop
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How Safe are We
During the past 100 years, life expectancy more than doubled in developed countries. In the last few decades, however, thirty new infectious diseases have emerged and one of them — AIDS — is becoming perhaps the most devastating epidemic in history. New d
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The Least of These, Directors
The Least of These explores one of the most controversial aspects of American immigration policy: family detention. As part of the Bush administration policy to end what they termed the “catch and release’” of undocumented immigrants, the U.S. government
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Taxi to the Dark Side
Taxi to the Dark Side examines America's policy on torture and interrogation in general, specifically the CIA's use of torture and their research into sensory deprivation. There is description of the opposition to the use of torture from its political and
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