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08/04/2016
Weeks after the outbreak of deadly fighting in South Sudan, aid groups say their movement is being restricted by continued violence and government checkpoints, harming their ability to get food and medicine to severely malnourished children.
08/03/2016
Syrian government forces launched air strikes against six hospitals in the Aleppo area within a week. Physicians for Human Rights said the attacks amount to war crimes.
07/27/2016
A new report by Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHRI), a member of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, analyzes the deteriorated state of the health system in Gaza through the lens of Palestinians who were injured during the recent war and, as a result, underwent amputation.
07/27/2016
In the Armenian capital, Yerevan, armed men in a prolonged standoff with police took four medics hostage.
07/20/2016
American doctors risk their lives to help victims of airstrikes in one of the world's most dangerous cities, Aleppo in Syria.
07/12/2016
Violence against health services and health workers in Pakistan is an all too familiar occurrence. But now an exemplary initiative—the Health Care in Danger project—is tackling the problem, one which could be replicated elsewhere in Pakistan and beyond.
07/11/2016
In a world of conflict, confrontation, deadlocks and dead ends, few crises are as protracted as the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. But in hospitals, schools and businesses, Israeli Arabs, Jews and Palestinians are working side by side to forge a better future.
07/11/2016
The maternity wing of an International Medical Corps’ hospital in the Protection of Civilian (PoC) site in Juba, South Sudan, was hit by shelling amidst escalating violence. No staff or patients were injured, but the attack forced International Medical Corps’ team to relocate critical patients to another facility inside the UN base.
07/08/2016
Attacks in Syria have contributed to an immense shortage of health care throughout the country, claiming the lives of more than 700 medical professionals and driving thousands more to flee. In Aleppo, reports have estimated that of the 2,000 physicians who once operated medical care in the nation’s most populous city, forty remain.
07/01/2016
The Syrian government has besieged Madaya, a small town controlled by opposition forces an hour’s drive from Damascus, trapping residents inside without access to supplies, food, or services outside the town since July 2015, in violation of international humanitarian law. With inadequate food stores and medical care, 40,000 residents have suffered from starvation and malnutrition, and succumbed to disease, traumatic injury, and other life-threatening conditions.