Physicians for Human Rights
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Destroyed Livelihoods
PHR researchers tell the story of just one of the thousands of villages destroyed in the genocidal campaign waged throughout Darfur. Through interviews with refugees from the village Furawiya, we hear the intimate stories of a people terrorized by Sudan's government and the Janjaweed.
The Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in Darfur, Sudan
In the conflict in Darfur, tens of thousands of civilians have been systematically killed, raped, and starved. PHR performed extensive interviews and qualitatively assessed the nature, circumstances and context of rape as a weapon in the nation's on-going war.
HIV Transmission in Health Care Settings
Even as prevention programs aimed at sexual transmission require greater funding, the high risk of HIV transmission in health care settings requires immediate and sustained attention from national and multilateral organizations involved in HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Every year, because of violations of core aspects of the right to health, at least half a million people -- and possible many more -- contract HIV through unsafe medical injections and blood transfusions.
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Thai hill tribe women and girls, and Burmese immigrant women and girls, contend with denial of full legal status and gender-based discrimination, which make them vulnerable to trafficking, unsafe migration, subsequent exploitative labor, and sexual exploitation, and place them at increased risk of HIV infection.
An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain
This paper addresses a crisis of severe shortages of human resources in heavily impacted sub-Saharan societies where health care workers who have the opportunity to move to wealthier nations do so, thus rejecting substandard, second-class health systems that their countries and the international community have been too slow to upgrade.
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