Physicians For Human Rights - History

History

  • 1988 First to document Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Kurds
  • 1996 Exhumed mass graves in the Balkans
  • 1996 Produced critical forensic evidence of genocide in Rwanda
  • 1997 Shared the Nobel Peace Prize for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  • 2003 Warned of health and human rights catastrophe prior to the invasion of Iraq
  • 2004 Documented and analyzed the genocide in Darfur
  • 2005 Detailed the story of tortured detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay
  • 2010 Showed how CIA medical personnel sought to improve waterboarding and other interrogation techniques that amount to torture

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