GLP Calls for Action to End Force-Feeding of Guantanamo and U.S. Hunger Strikers
On February 23, 2010, the health forum, "Hunger Strikes and Physicians," featured experts who have studied the legal and ethical questions surrounding physicians' involvement in force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo and U.S. prisons. Experts discussed the legal, ethical and human rights implications of the practice and set an agenda for action to end what some critics consider inhumane treatment.
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Global Lawyers and Physicians (GLP) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that focuses on health and human rights issues.
Global Lawyers and Physicians was founded in 1996 at an international symposium on health at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors Trial. As one of the earliest and most important health and human rights documents, the Nuremberg Code was developed by lawyers and physicians working together. GLP was formed to reinvigorate the collaboration of the legal and medical/public health professions to protect the human rights and dignity of all persons. Lawyers and physicians, by virtue of their privileged position and their commitment to life, health, social justice and equality, have special obligations to all people. GLP was founded on the premise that these professions, working together transnationally, can be a much more effective force for human rights than either profession can working separately.