Physicians for Human Rights Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 13, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$5,391,308

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Persecution of health workers/medical neutrality phr documents the deliberate targeting of health care systems and personnel and advocates accountability for violators. Phr has recently documented government attacks on physicians, medical staff, and patients in bahrain, libya, syria, and turkey. Phr has been monitoring attacks on the medical community in syria, tracking the serious health effects that the policy of targeting doctors and the medical infrastructure has had on the country. Phr is also supporting the medical neutrality protection act of 2011, a bipartisan bill co-drafted by phr that makes the protection of medical professionals and access to medical services a global policy priority for the u.s. Government. Additionally, phr is opposing a $50m arms sale to bahrain until human rights abuses are investigated. Phr leads international campaigns on behalf of individual health professionals threatened, detained, or killed for their human rights work and their efforts to uphold the principles of medical neutrality.

Activity 3

Mass atrocities phr holds perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable by using forensic science and epidemiology to document crimes and build capacity to further transitional justice. Phr has partnered with afghan civil society organizations and national stakeholders in a multi-year program to develop local forensic capabilities as the country moves away from conflict and seeks national healing by addressing past human rights violations. In libya, phr used its investigation of a massacre site to propose a systematic approach to addressing missing persons in libya, including providing recommendations for building the country's capacity to exhume, identify, and repatriate human remains to victims' families. Phr's epidemiological survey of burma's chin state revealed extraordinary levels of state and military violence. Phr is training doctors and lawyers from syria to document evidence of gross human rights violations in the context of the country's war. Phr has published fact sheets to inform clinicians about the medical effects, treatment, and documentation of exposure to chemical weapons. In addition to investigating mass graves, phr's international forensic program provides critical services to institutions, organizations, and individuals, through: forensic investigations (of both mass graves and individual deaths); identification of missing persons; evaluations, monitoring or review of forensic projects, reports, and services carried out by other entities and organizations; and specialized training in forensic science, human identification, dna analysis, and international forensic investigations to improve the long-term sustainability of forensic investigations at an international level.

Filer

EIN

22-2488437