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06/26/2016
In the past five years, the Syrian government has assassinated, bombed, and tortured to death almost 700 medical personnel. Thousands of physicians once worked in Aleppo, formerly Syria’s most populous city, but the assault has resulted in an exodus of 95% of them. Despite the onslaught, doctors and international N.G.O.s have forged an elaborate network of underground hospitals throughout Syria.
06/10/2016
We know very little about what happened to Sister Veronika Rackova, a physician and Catholic nun who was loved by her community in Yei, South Sudan. We know that someone shot at Sister Veronika’s ambulance and she died four days later. She was one of more than a thousand people killed in the last 15 months as a result of attacks on health care.
05/23/2016
New Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition shows global pattern of impunity, calls for international accountability for strikes on health care workers and facilities.
05/18/2016
This event will address a wide spectrum of strategies to prevent attacks from occurring and to end impunity for them. The session will be moderated by Leonard Rubenstein, chair of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition.
05/03/2016
Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition welcomes a new resolution by the UN Security Council condemning attacks on health workers and facilities. The value of the resolution will be determined by whether states adhere to international norms, develop strategies to prevent attacks, and bring perpetrators of attacks to justice.
03/15/2016
Separatist insurgents took over and damaged a hospital in southern Thailandon March 13, 2016, in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack on the hospital occurred during a resurgence of separatist attacks on civilians since the beginning of March.
03/11/2016
For the past four years, a small team of dedicated medical professionals has held together a skeletal network of bombed out and underground hospitals across opposition-held Aleppo, providing life-saving treatment to the civilians caught in Syria's deadly war
03/09/2016
A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported medic based in a small town northwest of Idlib city, Syria, explains the fear permeating his daily life, and the aftermath of a strike on a school in March 2015:
03/08/2016
On February 15, a pregnant woman seeking care at the Azaz Hospital in Aleppo died along with nine other civilians when the hospital was targeted by missiles. The hospital, one of the largest OB/GYN clinics in Northern Syria, was destroyed
03/08/2016
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is deeply concerned by the reported February 18 raid by Afghan forces on a health clinic funded by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) and the subsequent execution of three patients.