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Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR) is a Sweden-based research organization working with health-related issues on torture, war atrocities, and human rights violations. == Organization == Swedish Doctors for Human Rights is a Sweden-based non-profit research Non-governmental organization composed by professors, physicians, researchers and academics within health-related disciplines, known by discoveries on the psychiatric effects of torture on prisoners, and epidemiological comorbidity issues associated with posttraumatic stress disorder and witnessing of war atrocities. Many of their research findings have been published and/or commented in peer-reviewed international medical journals and in Läkartidningen (the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association). In a review article at Clinical Psychology Review, discoveries by the team led by Marcello Ferrada de Noli, SWEDHR’s founder, were recognized as innovative research with clinical applicability, and Physicians for Human Rights reproduced several findings by the same team – on the psychiatric effects of torture leading to suicidal behaviour– in the report ''Leave No Marks''. The organization is also credited with reporting on the impact of war atrocities on the public health of targeted populations and on exposure of governments' human rights breaches including those of Sweden. Further, as defined in the organization's Manifest,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://swedhr.org/swedhr-manifest/ )〕 SWEDHR's aims include the defense of organizations or individuals subjected to prosecution or persecution by governments for exposing war crimes, human rights abuses, or serious infringements to the civil liberties of populations. For example, the SWEDHR's chairman, a qualified nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo, formally presented the candidacy of whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to the Nobel Peace Prize 2014. Later in 2014, three professors/doctors on the executive board of SWEDHR publicly demanded that the Swedish authorities provide a legal definition of the stalled prosecutor's case against Julian Assange, the founder of the organization WikiLeaks, preceded by an open letter to the Prosecutor General of Sweden. SWEDHR has also advocated against allegedly human-rights breaches on Swedish cardiologist-surgeon Fikru Maru, imprisoned during 23 months in Ethiopia 〔Radio Sweden: "Family of imprisoned surgeon urges Foreign Office to do more". 15 June 2014 ()〕〔Radio Sweden: "Foreign ministry criticized in case of jailed Swedish doctor". 8 Feb 2015 ()〕 before legal procedures were initiated. The Swedish medical journal Dagens Medicin referred an open plea on the case sent by the organization to the Ethiopian ambassador in Sweden,〔"Open Letter by Swedish Doctors for Human Rights to the Ethiopian Ambassador in Sweden on the case of Dr Fikru Maru". Stockholm, 12 March 2015 ()〕 based on a correspondence on the same issue with the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.〔Correspondence posted in . Retrieved 14 March 2015 ()〕 SWEDHR has also advocated for the human rights of Valentina Lisitsa, the Ukrainian-born pianist celebrity whose controversial statements denouncing war atrocities in the War in Donbass elicited her banning from performing at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. SWEDHR intervened again in a similar attempt of boycotting the performance of Lisitsa in Norrköping, Sweden, in October 2015, a campaign which the organization ascribed to the initiative from associates of the neo-Nazi formations that the pianist had exposed in her speeches. 〔M Ferrada de Noli, "Facts and libel in the international campaign VS Human Rights advocate Valentina Lisitsa. Analysis", SWEDHR Research & Reports. Vol 2., N° 30, 4 October 2015 () 〕 The organization SWEDHR has also denounced the aerial attacks against hospitals run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Afghanistan 〔Statement by Swedish Doctors for Human Rights on the aerial bombing of Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, SWEDHR Research & Reports. Vol 2., N° 30, 4 October 2015 ()〕 and Yemen. SWEDHR's statement on the Kunduz hospital attack was also published 〔(Swedish) ”En skarp protest mot detta oförlåtliga dödande”, Dagens Medicin 6 October 2015 ()〕 or referred 〔Läkartidningen, "Läkare utan gränser kräver utredning efter sjukhusbombning", 5 October 2015 ()〕 at Swedish medical journals, and the case originated a current follow up campaign in a SWEDHR site. 〔SWEDHR on the aerial bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan ()〕 Swedish Doctors for Human Rights has also raised its concern about potential human rights catastrophes associated with the risk of nuclear conflicts. 〔Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (several authors) "Severe tensions between Nato, Russia and Ukraine could lead to a greater war". NewsVoice, Sweden, 27 Mar, 2015 ()〕 Leading members at the organization's board have published a variety of articles or been interviewed in both Swedish and international media on human-rights or geopolitical issues within the sphere of SWEDHR's specific aims. 〔Armando Popa, "Case Assange – Deutsche Welle interviews SWEDHR chairman Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli", SWEDHR Research & Reports. Vol 2., N° 28, 10 September 2015 ()〕〔Sputnik News, "UN Vote on MH17 Tribunal Resolution Staged to Implicate Russia" (Exclusive interview with the chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights), 30 Aug 2015 ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swedish Doctors for Human Rights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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