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Incorporating the Right to Health into Health Workforce Plans
In a concise format that should be attractive to policymakers and advocates alike, this document offers guidance on how to ensure that human rights, and in particular the right to health, inform the process of developing, funding, and monitoring health workforce plans, and the content of those plans. Such an approach is an obligation of countries and recognized good practice.
Letter to Iranian Authorities Concerning the Suspicious Death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani
Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian authorities to allow for an independent investigation into the suspicious death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, who may have been witness to the possible ill treatment, torture, and deaths of prisoners at Kahrizak detention center...
PHR Urges President-Elect Obama to Restore the Integrity of Military Medical Ethics
PHR sent a letter calling on the Obama administration to restore the integrity of military medical ethics.
Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice re: Fathi Al-Jahmi, September 2, 2008
As Secretary of State Rice prepares to travel to Libya in the coming days, PHR has written to her to urge that human rights cases be a central focus of her dialogue with Libyan officials...
Medical Leaders Call for Justice for Iranian Doctors
In partership/conjunction with PHR and the HIV Medical Association, sixteen top US medical experts have written a letter to the Minister of Health in Iran urging the government to respect the basic human rights of Doctor Arash Alaei and his brother, Doctor Kamair Alaei, who were taken into custody by Iranian authorities in late June and are being held incommunicado.