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Director: Errol Morris
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Producer: Sherry Jones
0Following Antigone: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights Investigations [75]
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” [68]
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 [61]
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 [59]
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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Directed By: Anders Ostergaard
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Produced by: Mai Iskander
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Produced by Mark Hopkins
0Critical Condition [14]
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 [16]
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 [9]
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 [2]
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 [4]
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 [8]
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 [6]
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 [20]
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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Books
Health and Human Rights: A Reader [32]
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 [34]
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 [37]
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 [30]
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
0Physicians for Human Rights
Achieving the MDGs by Investing in Human Resources for Health and The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning [23] [21]
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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Reports
Achieving the MDGs by Investing in Human Resources for Health and The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning [23] [21]
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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Physicians for Human Rights
Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh [27] [25]
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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Reports
Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh [27] [25]
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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Articles
Health and Human Rights [76]
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, [129]
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, [127]
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 [131]
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
0Books
The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire [132]
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 [125]
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, [118]
As in another of Garrett’s massive tomes, The Coming Plague, Garrett uses investigative reporting to analyze public health preparedness.
Laurie Garrett
0Physicians for Human Rights
From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers. [124] [120]
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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Reports
From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers. [124] [120]
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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