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Payal Shah

@payalkshah.bsky.social
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Director of Research, Legal, & Advocacy @Physicians for Human Rights

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In its orders this morning, SCOTUS grants one new case, relating to asylum claims. Full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court... Docket for Noem v. Al Otro Lado: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
CERTIORARI GRANTED
NOEM, SEC. OF HOMELAND, ET AL. V. AL OTRO LADO, ET AL.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.QUESTION PRESENTED
The Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., provides that an alien who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be inspected by an immigration officer. 8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(1)(A), 1225(a)(1) and (3). The question presented is whether an alien who is stopped on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border "arrives in the United States" within the meaning of those provisions.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 18/06/2025
Babies are again being born #HIV positive in #Uganda, after US #ForeignAid cuts. @payalkshah.bsky.social writes it’s among many signs the resulting global #HealthCrisis is also a #HumanRights crisis. www.justsecurity.org/114839/us-fo... #UNHumanRightsCouncil #HRC59
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U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts to Healthcare Trigger a Global Human Rights Crisis: How the World Must Respond
The U.N. Human Rights Council's current session offers a critical opening for leaders to address the health crisis spurred by U.S. funding cuts.
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Hannah Dunphy @hannahdunphy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Peaceful protest is a fundamental human right. But preparing for encounters with common crowd-control weapons used by law enforcement, like teargas & other chemical irritants, can help protect you and others from the health impacts of these weapons.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
ICE operations at immigration courts intensified today. Brief 🧵on what's happening: - A person facing removal shows up for a hearing. - At the hearing, ICE unexpectedly asks the immigration judge to dismiss the case without prejudice. - If the judge says yes, the hearing ends, court is over. 1/4
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Rep Jahana Hayes @repjahanahayes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 This bill gets more egregious by the minute. Rules just dropped an amended “Big Beautiful Bill” that includes a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother, even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Insurrection Ed has some opinions about medical research 🤪
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Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/03/2025
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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Payal Shah @payalkshah.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
On Tues, House Democrats will hold a shadow hearing on the impacts of USAID funding cuts. For PHR partners in Ethiopia and DRC, the abrupt aid halt has hindered efforts to combat infectious disease, provide care for sexual violence, and ensure access to justice. Read more: phr.org/wp-content/u...
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Global Justice Center @globaljusticec.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
MONDAY: Space is still available for our #CSW69 event on gender justice and the crimes against humanity treaty! Join leading experts and activists for a discussion on the treaty effort's historic potential to advance justice for gender-based crimes. Register: bit.ly/GenderCAHtre...
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Payal Shah @payalkshah.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Standing in the Rift Valley last week, the birthplace of humanity, it was impossible not to reflect on the gravity of US funding cuts on humans’ survival. PHR’s clinician partners from Kenya, Ethiopia, and DRC shared firsthand accounts of shuttering of TB programs, GBV care, and vaccination efforts.
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Priya Pillai @pillaipriy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Important development. Of course, there have been rumblings of this for the past few months, due to the political infighting in the Philippines. #warondrugs #ICC #Philippines
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Payal Shah @payalkshah.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thank you @thelancet.bsky.social for speaking with PHR about the crisis in #DRC and the urgent need to prevent attacks on health and ensure access to care. Read more below ⬇️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Humanitarian and health-care crises in eastern DR Congo
An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health challenges. Rebecca Sers reports.
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Payal Shah @payalkshah.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New in @thehill.com: Beyond fomenting misogyny in the US, Trump’s recent EOs have hindered critical measures to prevent sexual violence in war and fractured the medical and legal supports survivors need to heal. As conflicts flare globally, the timing couldn’t be worse thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this.” The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
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“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Payal Shah @payalkshah.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“To now see Trump’s immigration agenda merge with the heinous history of Guantánamo should be a wake-up call to policymakers, clinicians, and the public that the U.S. government is scaling up its cruelty."
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Trump Administration Use of Guantánamo to Detain Immigrants Threatens Abuse, Inhumane Conditions, Health Harms: PHR - PHR
In response to the Trump administration memorandum directing the U.S. government to prepare the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to detain migrants, the following statement is attributable to Michael Pay...
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 25/01/2025
BREAKING: Donald Trump has issued an executive order called "Enforcing the Hyde Amendment," revoking two of Joe Biden's post-Dobbs orders, which directed federal agencies to identify actions they could take to protect access to abortion.
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Payal Shah @payalkshah.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The latest effort by TX AG Paxton to use the TX ban to threaten physicians who provide abortion care- this time aimed at drs in states with shield laws. The confusion + fear are the point, aimed at scaring physicians into denying evidence-based medical care that is legal under their own state laws
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Benjamin Duerr @benjaminduerr.com · 08/12/2024
Ethiopia‘s (forgotten) #Tigray conflict: @nytimes.com with rare look inside a region still reckoning with the toll of war crimes. “There are still dead bodies everywhere.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/m...
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Ethiopia’s Agony: ‘I Have Never Seen This Kind of Cruelty in My Life’
A rare look inside a region still reckoning with the toll of war crimes, even as new conflicts roil the nation.
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szarifi.bsky.social @szarifi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
As women detained in Sednaya prison are freed their confusion matches that of the nation and the region but their freedom is to be cherished. We should all now just try to support the #Syrian people and gather the evidence necessary for justice for Assad and his cronies.
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Heather Barr @heatherbarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“A society without female doctors or medical workers is doomed.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Taliban move to ban women training as nurses and midwives ‘an outrageous act of ignorance’
Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of healthcare
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Akila Radhakrishnan @akilarad.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Some tough negotiations & drama, but 6th Comm was able to decide to move to negotiations by consensus. Prep comms in 2026 & 2027, negotiations in 2028 & 2029. A lot of hard work ahead to make sure we get a progressive treaty that meaningfully protects victims, but onwards! @leilasadat1.bsky.social
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