WarCriminalsWatch Events

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has been working on critical legislation in
the New York State legislature that will prevent health care professionals from
engaging in torture and protect those health care professionals who refuse to
assist in conduct they believe constitutes torture. This legislation has assumed
new urgency in light of reports that health care professionals may have
monitored torture sessions to establish the thresholds at which individuals in
detention reached the breaking point.

Confirmed Panelists: Allen Keller, M.D., Director of the Bellevue/NYU Program
for the Survivors of Torture; Steven Reisner, Ph.D., Advisor on Ethics and
Psychology for PHR; Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, General Secretary of the National
Council of Churches.

Join us for this very timely discussion of what role health care professionals
may have played in U.S.-sponsored torture, how to prevent health care
professionals from assisting in torture, and the ethical/religious framework
that supports our belief that torture is always wrong.

Please spread the word widely on this important panel presentation.

Co-Sponsors: NRCAT, MNYRCAT, Physicians for Human Rights, Rabbis for Human
Rights, Peace and Justice Task Force of the All Souls Unitarian Church

Event will be in the Reidy Friendship Hall.  Take the #6 train to 77th Street and walk to 80th St.

Light refreshments will be served.