Mass Atrocities
Since its inception, PHR has investigated mass atrocities such as genocide, mass killings, war crimes, and refugee crises. PHR's most recent investigations of mass atrocities have been in Burma, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, and Darfur.
PHR launched the International Forensic Program (IFP) in 1987 to meet the growing demand for forensic investigations, evaluations, and specialized training to provide evidence of human rights violations such as disappearances and war crimes. PHR's scientists conduct autopsies and exhumations in the field and have testified at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In the past year alone, the IFP trained 288 human rights investigators from 52 countries.
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