Physicians for Human Rights

After Resisting, the UN Redeploys Peacekeepers to Protect Dr. Mukwege, Amid Death Threats

• September 9, 2020

Dr. Denis Mukwege sat behind a desk in a sharp suit with a red tie and his eyes framed by thick black glasses, as his image was live-streamed from eastern Congo during a human-rights meeting of the European Parliament in Brussels on Aug. 31. Dr. Mukwege spoke matter-of-factly about women who had been buried …

Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General

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Report Accuses Russia of Attacks on Hospitals in Syria

Barbara Crossette

• November 24, 2015

At the end of July, Physicians for Human Rights, a group of health care professionals who have been documenting abuses in conflict areas for nearly three decades, went to Turkey to hear the stories of Syrian doctors who are seeing a once-advanced medical system in the Syrian city of Aleppo being systematically destroyed in …

Middle East, Terrorism

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Rapes Committed During South Sudan’s Conflict Detailed by the UN

Nelson Jarrin

• June 8, 2014

Sexual violence remains a persistent war crime even as the United Nations Security Council and many governments try to fight such atrocities against civilians with condemnations, international law, sanctions and tribunals. The International Criminal Court has just issued a new policy paper to increase prosecutions of gender-based crimes. And as a summit to end …

Africa, Gender Violence, Women

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WORLDVIEWS

Congo Court Reparations Elude Sexual Violence Victims

Randi Aho, Kathryn Bowman and Delaney Simon

• July 15, 2013

At the United Nations Security Council’s ministerial meeting on securing peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the rest of the Great Lakes region on July 25, to be presided over by United States Secretary of State John Kerry, we will likely be reminded that Congo, often referred to as the “rape …