Doctors for Human Rights

Doctors for Human Rights is an independent organisation of doctors that channels the humanity, influence and special skills of medical practitioners into promoting human rights in general, and the right to the highest attainable standard of health in particular. During a twenty two year existence its achievements include teaching health and human rights at UCL medical school, documenting massacres in the Rwanda itself during the 1994 genocide, helping to develop UN General Comment 14 on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, and assessing healthcare delivery in Palestine post Oslo Accords. One of its long term goals is to facilitate the incorporation of the right to the highest attainable standard of health into healthcare delivery worldwide.