Health and Human Rights Education
HHRE Toolkit
Supplementary Educational Materials
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These materials provide chapter members additional information to support health and human rights education on campus. The materials range from reports and articles to fact sheets and presentations, a number of which PHR created or contributed to. These resources can be utilized, for example, as supplementary readings for a discussion or as part of a presentation and lecture.
- The Human Rights Framework & the Right to Health
- Conflict
- Conflict & Medical Neutrality
- Health Systems
- HIV/AIDS
- Detention & Asylum
- Maternal Health
- Medical Ethics
The Human Rights Framework & the Right to Health
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and All International Human Rights Law Treaties (webpage)
- The Right to Health: A Toolkit for Health Professionals (Guide; BMA and Commonwealth Trust - webpage)
- The Right to Health Under International Law and its Relevance to the United States (Article; American Journal of Public Health - pdf)
- The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (Report; Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights - pdf)
- 25 Questions on Health & Human Rights (World Health Organization - pdf)
- Impact Assessments, Poverty, and Human Rights; Study Using the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (Case Study; UNESCO - pdf)
Conflict
- Assessing Quality of Care and Responsiveness of Health Services for Women in Crises Settings (WHO Case Study - pdf)
- Darfur—An Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- PHR Files Suit Against Defense Department in FOIA Dispute Over Documents Concerning Dasht-e-Leili Mass Grave in Afghanistan (PHR motion, download pdf from webpage)
- The Relevance of the Right to Health to Human Rights Strategies to End Armed Conflict (pdf)
- Southern Iraq: Reports of Human Rights Abuses and Views on Justice, Reconstruction and Governance (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Suspected War Criminal Denies Involvement of Government of Sudan in Darfur (PHR press release, webpage)
- Uncovering Truth in Afghanistan (PHR webpage)
- Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population-Based Assessment (PHR Report - pdf)
- War Crimes by Proxies: The Case of Afghanistan (pdf)
Conflict & Medical Neutrality
- El Salvador: Health Care under Siege - Violations of Medical Neutrality During the Civil Conflict (PHR Report - pdf)
- Doctors as Terrorists - A Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe (webpage with link to related op-ed)
Health Systems
- An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain: Building Equitable Health Systems in Africa (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Africa's Health-Care Brain Drain (NYTimes editorial, webpage)
- African Ministers Commit to Universal Health Care by 2015 (PHR fact sheet, related pdfs available on webpage)
- Bold Solutions to Africa's Health Worker Shortage (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- G8: What Would an Effective Health Worker Plan Look Like? (PHR, related pdfs available on webpage)
- Gates's Grandest Challenge: Transcending Technology as Public Health Ideology (Univ. of Toronto article in The Lancet, pdf)
- How Not to Count the Poor (pdf)
- Investing in a Strong and Sustainable Workforce (PHR fact sheet, pdf)
- The Right to Equal Treatment in the United States (PHR Report, download pdfs from webpage)
HIV/AIDS
- Nigeria: Access to Health Care for People Living with HIV and AIDS (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Nigeria: New Study Reveals Discrimination by Health Professionals Against People Living with HIV/AIDS is Fueled by Fear of Infection, Lack of Protective Supplies (PHR Press Release, download pdf from webpage)
- Neglecting the Needles (Washington Post op-ed, PHR webpage with pdf)
- Open Letter to 2008 Presidential Candidates on Global Health and HIV/AIDS (PHR letter, download pdf from webpage)
- Health Rights = Healthy Women: A Commitment to Halt the Feminization of AIDS (PHR Platform)
Torture, Detention, and Asylum
- Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by U.S. Personnel and Its Impact (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Break Them Down: Systematic Use of Psychological Torture by U.S. Forces (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Congress Passes Measure Banning the CIA's 'Enhanced' Interrogation Techniques (PHR press release, webpage)
- From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Asylum Network Training: Physical Evidence of Torture - part 1 / part 2 (5.1mb) (PHR instruction information in two parts, pdfs)
- Manual in the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Istanbul Protocol) (PHR Collaborative Guidelines, pdf)
- Breach of Trust: Physician Participation in Executions in the United States (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Evaluating and Defending Survivors of Torture: An Introduction to the Asylum Process (PHR factsheet, pdf)
- Iraq: Medical Consequences of Interrogation Techniques (PHR guiding principles, download pdf from webpage)
- Medical Investigation and Documentation of Torture (University of Essex Human Rights Center Guide, PDF 2.06 MB)
- A Report on Conditions at Shebarghan Prison, Northern Afghanistan (PHR Report, pdf)
- Ten Steps to Restore the United States' Moral Authority (PHR letter, download pdf from webpage)
- Testimony by PHR's Vince Iacopino before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (webpage)
Maternal Health
- Maternal Mortality in Peru: An Urgent Human Rights Issue (PHR Report, pdf)
- Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru (PHR Report, download pdf from webpage)
- Deadly Delays: Human Rights and maternal Mortality in Peru (video, available from webpage)
Medical Ethics
- Dual Loyalty and Human Rights in Health Professional Practice; Proposed Guidelines & Institutional Mechanisms (PHR/University of CapeTown Report, pdf)
- AAMC Viewpoint: "The Human Rights Imperative in Medical Education" (Leonard S. Rubenstein, PHR President - AAMC webpage)
Please also visit our Online Digital Library and the Physicians for Human Rights YouTube Channel for additional educational materials and videos.
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