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Physicians for Human Rights report on psychological torture by US forces
Latest news from the IRCT International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
The Right to Health: An Interview with Professor Paul Hunt
Reports to the Sixty-first session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
Special Rapporteur's reports to the Commission and the General Assembly.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physicial and mental health, Paul Hunt - United Nations Commission on Human Rights - Sixty-first session - Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 11 Fabruary 2005
Parallel meeting: How to prove torture? - Invitation to IRCT parallel meeting (PDF)
Istanbul Protocol (PDF) - 4 April 2005
Turkmenistan: President announces large-scale closure of hospitals - 24 March 2005
Health and Human Rights Organizations Condemn Turkmenistan
Plan to Close Hospitals
- 22 March 2005
"AMA calls for inquiry into doctors' role in abuse of prisoners"
British Medical Journal - 30 October 2004
News from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
News from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) (PDF)
Copenhagen, Denmark - 09 April 2004 issue
Lost Childhood (PDF)
GCMHP, DCI/PS and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel - 22nd March 2004
Statement on first anniversary of crackdown in Cuba
Joint-statement of a group of non-governmental organizations - 17th March 2004
Cuba: Government must release prisoners of conscience immediately
Amnesty International Press Release - 16 March 2004
The Proceeding against the 9 Executive Board Members of the HRFT was Aborted (PDF)
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey - 10th March 2004
WMA Chair of Section on Psychological Consequences of Torture and Persecution (PDF)
Speech at Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing - 23rd February 2004
Turkey's Human Rights Record Is Taken to Task (PDF)
Washingtonpost.com - 25th February 2004
Turkish psychiatrist and human rights defender sentenced to prison last month - has to appear in court in another case IRTC Media Release - 1 March 2004
Members of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey sentenced to prison (IRTC) (PDF)
Copenhagen, Denmark - February 2004, 29 Issue
Turkish human rights defenders at risk
Media Release - 27 January 2004
Total 576 Months (48 years) Prison Terms for 31 Human Rights Defenders at the Helvaci-Aliaga Trial! (PDF) - 16 February 2004
Attack on Tony Fernando - A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission - AHRC
9 January 2004
News from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) (PDF)
Copenhagen, Denmark - January 2004, 28 issue.
News from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) (PDF)
Copenhagen, Denmark - 27 November 2003 issue.
Report of Paul Hunt, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights (PDF), in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/45, transmitted by the Secretary-General General Assembly of the United Nations.
The report is also available on www.unhchr.ch.
News from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) (PDF)
 Copenhagen, Denmark - June / July 2003 issue.
Update on 26 June activities for this year's "Together Agaisnt Torture", campaign to commemorate the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. (PDF)
Human Rights ZADHR statement
Zimbabwe - 4 June 2003
News from the International Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (IRCT) (PDF)
Copenhagen, Denmark - May 2003 issue.
The medical community’s response to torture (PDF)
The Lancet - 3 May 2003
Visiting detainees to prevent torture (PDF)
The Lancet - 3 May 2003
Overcoming obstacles in confronting torture (PDF)
The Lancet - 3 May 2003
"People missing as a result of armed conflict"
British Medical Journal - 3 May 2003
News from the International Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (IRCT) (PDF)
Copenhagen, Denmark - March 2003 issue.
Colombia : Armed conflict leads to humanitarian disaster.
Colombian doctors are killed as their neutrality is ignored.

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