The Embodiment of Protest: Hunger Strikes, Human Rights, and the Health of Palestinian Political Prisoners

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Event Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjHW2HAUPmU Event Details: Hunger strikes have been used as means for non-violent resistance and protest over the past several decades by Palestinian political prisoners in Israel/Palestine. The featured panelists will draw on their expertise and experience in the fields of health and human rights to explore various legal, medical, and human rights dimensions of hunger strikes being staged by Palestinian political prisoners. Panelists: Dr. Lina Qasem Hassan, Physician and…

From Trauma to Hope in the Gaza Strip

WCC; B010 Singer Classroom 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

Please join the Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard Divinity School, and the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights for lunch and a discussion with Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, psychiatrist and Director General of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), and Dr. Sara Roy, on the human rights and mental…

A Structural Approach to Palestinian Health

The destruction and de-development of the Palestinian health system in the occupied territory, and the inequitable health outcomes of Palestinian citizens of Israel and refugees just beyond its borders, are often theorized as the results of a longstanding conflict. But these health realities are instead best conceptualized as part of a broader effort toward Palestinian dispossession, one in which the United States is an active participant. In the last few…