Focus on Material Support

Physicians for Human Rights' Asylum Program employs the invaluable skills and expertise of health professionals to promote the health and well being of torture survivors and other noncitizens seeking safe haven in the United States. Since 1989, PHR's extraordinary network of over 300 trained volunteer health professionals has documented forensic evidence of torture and abuse and has provided medical evaluations in support of asylum seekers' applications. PHR also engages physicians and other health professionals who have developed expertise through this work in reform of asylum and immigration detention policies. These health professionals are uniquely powerful and effective policy advocates, bringing their passion and the authority of their profession to PHR's efforts to achieve systematic immigration reform.

Related:

• The Material Support Bar: Denying Refuge to the Persecuted
• PHR Letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano regarding Medical Neutrality
• Material Support Amicus Brief in Support of Asylum Application of B.T.

• Doctors Without Refuge: Former PHR President Len Rubenstein Washington Post Op-Ed
• Doctor May Be Denied Asylum for Treating 'Terrorists' ABC News
• PHR Calls on Department of Homeland Security to Stop Classifying Medical Treatment as Giving 'Material Support' to Terrorists

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