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Women and Children Still Facing Health Crises in Gaza Despite So-Called Ceasefire: MdM and PHR
Women and children in Gaza continue to suffer from poor health due to ongoing violence and Israeli restrictions on medical supplies more than one year since the ceasefire was reached in Gaza on October 10, 2025, according to new data published today by Médecins du Monde (MdM)…
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New Trump Administration Sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “An Attack on Survivors of Atrocities”: PHR
In response to the Trump administration’s new sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the following quote is attributable to Sam Zarifi, JD, executive director of PHR: “The Trump administration’s new sanctions on the ICC are an attack on children who survived…
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Hospitals and Medics Should Never Be a Target: Documenting and Demanding Justice for Attacks on Health Care
A decade ago, the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2286 condemning attacks on health care facilities and personnel in conflict. While this resolution was hailed as a turning point, attacks on health care have since skyrocketed. 2025 saw a record 1,981 health…
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Human Rights and Pathways to Accountability in Syria: A Q&A with PHR’s Maram Haddad
The Assad family ruled Syria for 53 years, overseeing decades of repression, a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011, and 14 years of brutal armed conflict. Following nearly two years of transition after the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, Maram Haddad – a…
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Trump Administration Sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) Harm Atrocity Survivors in DRC, Gaza, Myanmar, Ukraine: PHR Amicus Brief
The Trump administration’s sanctions (Executive Order 14,203) on the International Criminal Court (ICC) will lead to “direct, irreparable harm” to survivors of grave human rights abuses around the globe, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) argues in a new amicus brief filed at the…
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International and Regional Actors Must Deescalate Mounting Conflict in Ethiopia: PHR
Regional and international actors must act now to help deescalate mounting conflict in Ethiopia, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today. Ethiopia stands on the brink of resuming widespread conflict, following reports of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front’s (TPLF) seizure…
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Q&A: Attacks on Hospitals and Health Workers in Ethiopia
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Organization for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa (OJAH) have conducted extensive research on attacks on health care in Ethiopia. Their August 2026 research brief, Stolen, Broken, Destroyed: How Impunity Has Fueled…
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Increasing Russian Strikes on Medical Supply Warehouses Put Millions of Ukrainians at Risk: PHR
Russian forces must immediately cease their mounting attacks on medical warehouses, transport, and distribution infrastructure, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today, following multiple strikes against medical supply facilities over twelve days that reportedly destroyed…
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One Year of “America First Global Health”: Evidence Shows Trump Administration Policy Has Undermined Global Health
The Trump administration’s “America First Global Health Strategy” has damaged efforts to respond to the most urgent public health crises facing the world, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today. September 18, 2026 marks one year since the launch of the America First Global…
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Drone Strikes, Hospital Attacks, and Violence Against Health Care Workers Push Ethiopia’s Health System Toward Collapse
NEW YORK — As the risk of renewed armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region grows and conflicts in the Amhara and Afar regions continue, all armed forces must cease the deliberate attacks on hospitals and health workers that have nearly collapsed the health system, Physicians…