Images taken by members of the Lab on a trip to India in 2014

In collaboration with our global health partners, the Human Rights Impact Lab conducted meaningful fieldwork on a trip to India in 2014

News

While we debate annual refugee caps, if Title 42 should be repealed and whether to welcome Haitian and Afghan refugees, each day migrants experience the trauma of instability. This additional trauma—often ignored because of other acute, pressing issues—has lasting physical and psychological health effects that we document in our refugee and migrant patients for decades. 

TIME

Protecting already vaccinated Americans from contracting mild Covid shouldn't be more important than the lives and human rights of people in poorer countries.

NBC News

For millions of refugees and asylum seekers around the world, death may seem more merciful than what they have to endure before, during, and after migration, especially during a pandemic that has crippled even the strongest of countries.

The Hill

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