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Immigrants Who Obtained Forensic Medical Evaluations Much More Likely to Be Granted Asylum or Other Relief in United States: Study
November 30, 2021
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Family Separation Trauma Sustained by Asylum-Seeking Children and Parents Persists After Reunification, Medical Study Finds
November 24, 2021
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Survivors of Post-Election Sexual Violence in Kenya Appeal Elements of Recent Ruling, Seek Justice and Redress for All Survivor-Petitioners
November 11, 2021
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Five Ways to Protect Sexual Violence Survivors in Research and Monitoring and Evaluation
For professionals who work in sexual violence research and monitoring and evaluation (M&E), engaging with survivors of sexual violence can be a powerful tool…
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The Survivors, the Dead, and the Disappeared: Detention of Health Care Workers in Syria, 2011-2012
PHR's analysis of patterns in the Syrian government's forced disappearance, detention, and abuse of health care workers during the early years of the Syrian…
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Top Global Health Experts Preview Biden's COVID-19 Summit, Call for Global Vaccine Equity
On Monday, September 20, 2021, PHR hosted a virtual press conference with top public health, epidemiology, and human rights experts calling on high-income countries…
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Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Need Urgent Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
Hopes of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic are increasing, with nearly five billion doses of vaccines administered globally. Yet for vulnerable populations such as Rohingya…
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Survivors of Domestic and Gang Violence Deserve a Chance at Asylum in the U.S.
After being thrown out of her home as a teenager by her stepmother, Maria* was raped by the son of her employer, who then…
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COVID-19 Recovery and the Right to Health
While COVID-19 "recovery" usually implies a patient's recuperation from physical symptoms, the recovery of health care systems from systemic fractures exposed by the pandemic…
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6 Things You Should Know about COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Human Rights
Requirements for certain groups of people to be vaccinated against COVID-19, known as vaccine "mandates," have generated significant debate, including in institutions of higher…
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Protecting the Right to Health in Syria
Syria remains one of the world's most complex humanitarian emergencies. Ten years of violence have resulted in more than 500,000 casualties, triggered one of…
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Title 42 Expulsion Policy Must Go: Inhumane Border Policy is Restricting Access to Asylum
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues and a renewed sense of normalcy is beginning to be restored in many places in the United States,…
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Behind Closed Doors: Abuse and Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention
Trapped in a system marked by mistreatment and abuse, medical neglect, and the denial of due process, hundreds of people in U.S. immigration detention…
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A Trump-era Pandemic Policy is Undermining Public Health at the Border. Biden Must End It.
Originally published by the Los Angeles Times on May 21, 2021 In a steadily growing encampment mere yards south of the U.S.-Mexico border, we…
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From Behind Closed Doors: Voices of Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention
Each day, the United States government unnecessarily locks up thousands of people, including children, in civil immigration detention in more than two hundred immigration…
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