Recent PHR Reports
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PHR's Research and Advocacy Fueled the Ban Landmine Movement

In 1997, the Norwegian Nobel Committee applauded the Ban Landmine Campaign for changing a ban from "a vision to a feasible reality."

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Recent PHR Reports

  • Broken Laws, Broken Lives
    In PHR's report, "Broken Laws, Broken Lives", we have for the first time medical evidence to confirm first-hand accounts of men who endured torture by US personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. These men were never charged with any crime...
    June 18, 2008
  • The Right to Health: An Assessment of Kenya's Commitment to Health as a Fundamental Human Right
    The Health Rights Advocacy Forum (HERAF) organized its first Annual Conference from the 14th to 15th November, 2007 at the Savelberg Retreat Centre in Nairobi...
    March 31, 2008
  • The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning
    The purpose of this guide is to explain why it is necessary to ground health workforce planning in human rights, and how to develop a plan that does just that.
    February 29, 2008
  • UNAMID Deployment on the Brink
    The hybrid peacekeeping force for Darfur is being set up to fail, a group of 35 nongovernmental organizations warned in a report released December 20, 2007.
    December 20, 2007
  • Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru
    Peru's persistently high maternal mortality ratio, the second highest in South America, dramatically illustrates systemic inequities that ravage the overall society and in turn reflect systematic violations of human rights and vast disparities in the health care system.
    November 28, 2007