DHR former executive committee member Chris Burns-Coxs letter, co-signed by chair Peter Hall amongst others, on doctors responsibilities towards detainees

DHR points out that the BMA’s silence has given a green light to the Government’s anticipated new legislation limiting refused asylum seekers healthcare even further

DHR points out that the Governments policy violates international law and that the periodic report to the Commmittee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights is dishonest to claim the UK is observing the Covanent progressively

DHR afforded the opportunity to be more reflective on the issues and discuss principles involved. Extensive quotations from Parliamentary Human Rights Committee report support DHR’s criticism of the violatins of health rights

DHR criticises the BMA over their failure to condemn the withdrawal of access to free secondary healthcare for failed asylum seekers. It explains why the BMA has become part of the problem

DHR praises the Lancet as a global resource whose scientific content is required reading governments in addtion to the medical profession. The journal’s reputation must not be compromised by an association with products so manifestly harmful to mankind.

The letter points out that General Comment 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights specifically requires states to respect, and discourage other states or international organisations from violating, health rights in other countries. It also reminds readers that electorates are responsible for ensuring that the governments they elect respect international law and punish perpetrators

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights is holding an inquiry into the treatment of asylum seekers. The JCHR secretary requested an electronic copy of DHR’s submission so she could copy the report to individual committee members

Errata, babes lost with the bath water, and what the medical profession should do

Current regulations flout international law

As part of the campaign to protect free healthcare provision for failed asylum seekers and other undocumented immigrants, DHR wrote to the Secretary of State for Health criticising the current regulations as violating international law

Chair, Peter Hall‘s paper Torture: the antithesis of ethical medical behaviour

We are greatly saddened that in the early morning hours of 24th December, our dear friend and colleague Bernie Hamilton, 60, lost his battle with a highly aggressive cancer.

DHR intervenes in the appeal heard by the Law Lords against torture evidence being allowed in court

Doctors for Human Rights salutes the decision by Israel’s High Court to ban the use of ‘human shields’ by the Israeli army

Hunger strikers must not be force fed

DHR calls on WMA to require national medical organisations to facilitate arrest of doctors who are complicit with to be arrested when they travel abroad

Medical complicity with torture - DHR correspondence published in the Lancet defines the seriousness of the violation and recommends a method to bring the perpetrators to justice

In the first terror case since July 7 to reach the highest court - the hearing will test whether the rules have changed

DHR's first chairman has been appointed as a trustee of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture

Detainees are on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. Some are being force fed via naso-gastric tube. Force feeding is a gross violation of medical ethics and of the detainees human rights

Robin Cook’s contribution to advancing human rights

Doctors for Human Rights urges the International Community to maintain pressure on Sudan

DHR has participated in a campaign to be allowed the opportunity to persuade the Law Lords that information acquired through torture cannot be used in court

To commemorate the 11th anniversary of start of the Rwandan genocide, and the screening of three new feature films dealing with the genocide that will lead to a greater awareness of the lasting suffering of the people of Rwanda (Hotel Rwanda, Shooting dogs and Sometimes in April), DHR is publishing its unique report (Rwanda 1994 - a report of the genocide) downloadable without charge on the DHR website.

Speaking in London today Dr. Peter Hall, Chair of said that Kofi Annan's initiative was a bold one, that reminded the world that nobody was above the law. Crimes against Humanity and gross violations of human rights can not be justified under any circumstances. To try to combat such abuses in a manner that failed to respect human rights was equally unacceptable, and counter productive as a weapon. Dr. Hall expressed the hope that the international community would give the UN Secretary General's initiative very serious consideration.

A chronological account of relevant events, starting with the attack on the twin towers in New York on 9/11. This timeline was originally compiled as an information resource for participants at the Doctors for Human Rights conference on 26th June 2004, entitled “The health and human rights of unlawful detainees in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere”. Since then the report has been constantly updated with contemporaty information as it became available

Four UK nationals are being released today after prolonged detention without trial compounded by alleged torture