Physicians for Human Rights

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PHR has come to occupy an important position in the human rights movement. We focus on the critical role of forensic science, clinical medicine, and public health research in ensuring that human rights abuses are properly documented using the most rigorous scientific methodologies possible. Our experts use epidemiology, medical and psychological evaluations, autopsies, forensic anthropology, and crime scene analysis to document serious abuses, including murder, torture, rape, starvation, forced displacement, and civilian attacks. PHR’s human rights training and mentoring emphasize medicine and science as the foundation of every aspect of evidence collection, documentation, and implementation of international norms and standards. We provide credible evidence, data, and research to corroborate allegations of human rights violations not only to prevent future abuses, but also to ensure the prosecution of perpetrators by courts, tribunals, and truth commissions.

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Jul 2, 2026	Arrests of immigrant parents create mental health crisis for children	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, KFF Health News LOS ANGELES — Damian Zermeño, 15, sensed something was wrong the moment he got home from school. His aunt sat at the dining table, sobbing. His father, who’...
Feb 13, 2026	Public health workers are quitting over assignments to Guantánamo	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump adminis...
Oct 23, 2025	As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk	By DORANY PINEDA, MELINA WALLING and ANNIKA HAMMERSCHLAG One hot day last summer, Clarisa Lugo was inspecting and counting corn and soybean plants in the middle of a 300-acre farm field in Illinois when she started throwing up and panting. ...
Mar 19, 2024	Politics \| As Colorado and other states target disavowed “excited delirium” diagnosis, police groups push back	Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in Colorado and several other states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police in...
Dec 19, 2023	Health \| As foundation for ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis cracks, fallout spreads	Renuka Rayasam, Markian Hawryluk, Samantha Young \| KFF Health News (TNS) When Angelo Quinto’s family learned that officials blamed his 2020 death on “excited delirium,” a term they had never heard before, they couldn’t believe it. To them, ...
Oct 27, 2023	Excited delirium: a deadly term finally laid to rest	George Floyd. Angelo Quinto. Elijah McClain. All three men were killed by lethal force inflicted by the police, and all three deaths were initially blamed on something called “excited delirium.” For years, law enforcement officers and other...
Oct 14, 2023	Why Gaza health care facilities and workers have suffered so much violence	In a mere week, the fifth major conflict in the past 15 years between Hamas and Israel became its most catastrophic. Hamas’ slaughter of more than 1,200 Israelis represents the largest instance of the murder of Jews since the Holocaust. Ham...
Apr 28, 2023	STAT Wunderkinds discuss high-impact research, resilience, and social justice	Elenoe “Crew” Smith used to faint at the sight of blood. Still, she knew from a very young age that she wanted to help people living with sickle cell disease. Now, as a research director at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, she is working on potentia...
Apr 25, 2023	Why involuntary treatment for addiction is a dangerous idea	As the overdose crisis rages on and the pandemic-fatigued public runs low on empathy, there have been increasing calls for expanded involuntary commitment for people with substance use disorder. Some of the advocacy for more coercive treatm...
Sep 27, 2022	Doctors who knowingly spread Covid-19 lies should be held accountable	The California State Legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom that strengthens discipline for doctors who knowingly spread Covid-19 misinformation. Legislation like this is sorely needed across the country. More than two years into ...
May 16, 2022	Listen: A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody	One night in 2019, Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man in Colorado, was walking home when he was approached by police. Someone had deemed him “suspicious” and called the cops. The police argued with McClain, tackled him to the ground, a...
Apr 22, 2022	Mayorkas says U.S. is preparing for "significant challenges" along the border, asking countries to accept deportees	Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged Friday that the planned end of the Title 42 border expulsions in May could pose "significant challenges" for the U.S. government, but he stressed that his department is r...
Mar 25, 2022	ICE’s ‘Fierce Commitment’ To Ensuring Detainees Are Cared For Properly Includes Inadequate Staffing, Unsanitary Facilities	ICE has never really cared about the people it detains and processes for removal. It cared even less when President Trump made it clear he believed anyone less white and privileged than he is deserved to be excluded from the “American dream...
Dec 10, 2021	Forensic medical examinations are key to helping asylum seekers prove trauma	After a decade of horrific abuse by her husband, Ms. A. felt she had no choice but to flee with her children to the United States, where she was greeted with a complex, multi-stage asylum process that required her to prove that her trauma a...
Sep 7, 2021	I'm a photographer who covered 9/11 and its aftermath. Here are the most gripping photos I took, and the stories behind them.	From the first moments after the September 11, 2001, attacks, journalists were on the scene. US troops entered Afghanistan less than a month later. Soon, prisoners began arriving at Guantánamo. Twenty years later, the photographer Alan Chin...
Sep 2, 2021	Photos: What it was like to cover the 9/11 attack, the war in Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay	The Twin Towers. Alan Chin From the first moments after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, journalists were on the scene documenting the horror and tragedy of that day. U.S. troops entered Afghanistan less than a month later and, soon after, pr...
Feb 10, 2021	Sudan in 2021: A Human Rights-First Road Map for the Biden Administration	In December 2020, Sudan’s transitional government celebrated the official removal of the country from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list, nearly two decades after its initial inclusion. Sudan’s delisting—accompanied by a bridge loan ...
Jan 12, 2021	ICE must provide Covid-19 vaccines to all detained migrants	After months of public health and political debates on vaccine prioritization for incarcerated populations, Covid-19 vaccination has begun in prisons and jails across the United States. Yet little is known about vaccination programs in U.S....
Oct 22, 2020	On Sexual Violence, Trauma, And Neglect Of The Rohingya Muslims	On Thursday, October 22, 2020, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a non-governmental organization, published a report documenting widespread sexual violence allegedly committed by the armed forces in Myanmar, the Tatmadaw, during the atroci...
Aug 7, 2020	When the treatment is torture: ICE must stop using solitary confinement for Covid-19 quarantine	After months of social distancing, many of us are feeling its effects. Experts have delineated the mental and physical health impacts of isolation caused by the pandemic, and those who have experienced home quarantine have been particularly...
Jun 23, 2020	Fractured skulls, lost eyes: Police often break own rules using “rubber bullets”	By Liz Szabo and Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News, and Kevin McCoy, Donovan Slack and Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY Warning: Graphic images and video below. Megan Matthews thought she was dying. “I thought my head was blown off,” said Matthews, 2...
Jan 10, 2019	The real border crisis: medical neglect of migrants in detention centers	In his Oval Office address on Tuesday, President Trump called the situation at the border a “growing humanitarian and security crisis.” His declaration failed to acknowledge the real crisis at hand — the medical neglect at border facilities...

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When was Physicians for Human Rights founded?

Physicians for Human Rights was founded in 1986.

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Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Physicians for Human Rights, among them “Arrests of immigrant parents create mental health crisis for children” (Jul 2, 2026) and “Public health workers are quitting over assignments to Guantánamo” (Feb 13, 2026).

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Yes, Physicians for Human Rights is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 9, 2026.