HaHRP - Health & Human Rights Project Since 2003, the Health and Human Rights Project (HaHRP) has organized yearly delegations of doctors, lawyers, teachers, labor activists, students, and others interested in human rights issues, to visit and work in Israel and Palestine. The most recent delegation just returned in mid-January 2010. Click here to read their blog about the trip. Our Goals
-document the impact of the Occupation
-provide medical care in the Occupied Territories
-educate the general public
-support our partner organizations
-advance the work of the Jewish peace movement HaHRP Activites
-Yearly delegations starting in 2003
-Most recent delegation October/November, 2008
-Conference in Gaza, “Seige and Mental Health: Walls vs Bridges”
-Support Farah Rehabilitation Center in Nablus
-Harvard/Al Quds medical school exchange program
-Medical and human rights/activism focus
-Broken Promises, Broken Dreams | VIEW REPORTS
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Special presentations
of articles, photos
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Our 2008 delegation was timed to coincide with an international conference in Gaza that we hoped to attend. HaHRP has also done other projects, including supporting a rehabilitation center in Nablus, organizing a medical school exchange program, and speaking and writing about our efforts, including a book by Alice Rothchild, Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience, Pluto Press, 2007. Our Partner Organizations
We partner with PHR-Israel, founded in 1998 to serve the disenfranchised Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories, and PMRS, founded in 1979 to provide care for 40% of Palestinians in the OT through community and specialized health clinics and mobile clinics, with a strong focus on education and empowerment.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel)
Palestinian Medical Relief Society (pmrs.org)
What are the Issues?
One of the most pressing concerns that face providers and patients in the region is the violation of medical neutrality by the Israeli military forces. The next series of slides will define the international convention and explore several examples of violations that we encountered. Reports
Gaza (pdf file)
Lebanon (pdf file)
Violations of Medical Neutrality (pdf file)
Delegations to Israel/Palestine Special presentations of articles, photos and videos
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Our Partners in the News:
"Doctors' Healing Touch Reaches Across Mideast Divide" (pdf file)
New York Times - July 26, 2004 "Health Under Fire" (pdf file)
Lancet - Sept. 19, 2004 How Can You Help? HaHRP needs and welcomes volunteers. In addition to people working in health care and related fields, we need help with the many non-medical tasks ahead of us, including organizing (outreach, putting on events, logistics, etc), press work, and fundraising. There is also non-medical work to be done on the delegations. For more information, contact us here. Fundraising HaHRP seeks funds for the delegation to cover the expense of medical material donations to the Palestinian community and to defray expenses incurred by PHR-Israel and the UPMRC in assisting us in this project. Delegation members will fund their own travel expenses from the U.S. to Israel, although we also seek scholarship funds to cover the travel expenses of low-income delegation members. Please make tax-deductible contributions payable to "AJJP-Boston" and write "HaHRP" in the memo line. Mail to: AJJP-Boston, P.O. Box 400479, Cambridge,MA, 02140.
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HaHRP - Health and Human Rights Project
