Date and Time: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST - Location: Zoom – Registration required
Targeting Health: Detention, torture, and attacks on Palestinian healthcare workers
Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a panel discussion on the impact of attacks, torture, detention, siege, and direct targeting of health workers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. We will be joined by Dr. Osaid Alser, a physician and global surgery researcher from Gaza, Palestine, Dr. Muath Alser, a physician from Gaza, cofounder and director of Healthcare Workers Watch, and Milena Ansari, the Israel and Palestine Assistant Researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW).
This webinar is co-sponsored by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Moderator: A. Kayum Ahmed, PhD, MSt, MA, LLM, LLB
Kayum is a South African human rights activist-scholar and HRW’s Program Lead for the Global Health Initiative (GHI). GHI is an innovative, interdisciplinary, and cross-divisional structure that serves as a creative space to advance decolonial knowledge and methodologies centered on reimagining the right to health. Kayum works on various global health projects including pandemic preparedness, Indigenous epistemologies, and the evolution of the right to health to include non-human nature. He also serves as a visiting scholar at Birzeit University in Palestine. Read Full Bio
Speakers:
Milena Ansari, LLM - Milena Ansari is the Israel and Palestine Assistant Researcher at HRW, monitoring and reporting on human rights conditions and abuses in Israel and Palestine. Over the years, Milena has gained valuable experiences working to defend human rights with leading Palestinian human rights organizations, analyzing systematic violations of prisoners’ rights and children’s rights under international law. In 2022, she also worked part time as an International Law Lecturer at Birzeit University in Palestine. Read Full Bio
Muath Alser - Muath Alser is a Palestinian physician from Gaza. He is the co-founder and director of Healthcare Workers Watch, an initiative to document the attacks against healthcare workers in Palestine. Read Full Bio
Osaid Alser, MD, MSc(Oxon) - General surgery trainee at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and global surgery researcher from Gaza, Palestine. Read Full Bio
Source & to register: Targeting Health: Detention, torture, and attacks on Palestinian healthcare workers – FXB Center for Health & Human Rights | Harvard University
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