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About the Organizations THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS The American College of Physicians (ACP) is a non-profit, professional association of physicians trained in internal medicine - the nonsurgical diagnosis and treatment of disease in adults. The College was founded in 1915 to uphold high standards in medical ethics, education, research and practice, with the overarching goal of ensuring the quality of patient care. It is the nation's largest medical specialty society, with a membership of more than 80,000 internists, including primary care physicians, subspecialists, medical researchers and educators, and physicians-in-training. The ACP publishes its code of ethics in the Ethics Manual, now in its third edition. In each edition, the ACP has been resolute in its opposition to physician participation in executions. The College has taken no position on the death penalty itself, considering it a matter of personal moral conscience. However, the ACP considers physician participation in the execution of prisoners to be unethical and contrary to the mission of the medical profession. Members of the 1993-1994 Ethics Committee include: Christine K. Cassel, M.D., chair; Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., Richard J. Carroll, M.D.; Errol D. Crook, M.D.; Lee Dunn, Jr., Esq.; Lloyd W. Kitchens, M.D.; Capt. John Mitas, M.D.; and Susan W. Tolle, M.D. Address for The American College of PhysiciansIndependence Mall West Sixth Street at Race Philadelphia, PA 19016-1572 Tel: (215) 351-2400 Fax: (215) 351-2869 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Human Rights Watch conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. It addresses the human rights practices of governments of all political stripes, of all geopolitical alignments, and of all ethnic and religious persuasions. In internal wars it documents violations by both governments and rebel groups. Human Rights Watch defends freedom of thought and expression, due process and equal protection of the law; it documents and denounces murders, disappearances, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, exile, censorship and other abuses of internationally recognized human rights. Human Rights Watch began in 1978 with the founding of its Helsinki division. Today, it includes five divisions covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, as well as the signatories of the Helsinki accords. It also includes four collaborative projects on arms, free expression, prison conditions, and women's rights. It maintains offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Moscow, Belgrade, Zagreb and Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly. The staff includes Kenneth Roth, executive director; Cynthia Brown, program director; Holly J. Burkhalter, advocacy director; Allyson Collins, research associate; Richard Dicker, associate counsel; Jamie Fellner, planning coordinator; Ham Fish, senior advisor; Barbara Guglielmo, comptroller; Robert Kimzey, publications director; Gara LaMarche, associate director; Michal Longfelder, development director; Ellen Lutz, California director; Juan Méndez, general counsel; Susan Osnos, communications director; Dinah PoKempner, research associate; Jemera Rone, counsel; Rachel Weintraub, special events director; and Derrick Wong, finance and administration director. The regional directors of Human Rights Watch are Abdullahi An-Na'im, Africa; Juan E. Méndez, Americas; Sidney Jones, Asia; Jeri Laber, Helsinki; and Andrew Whitley, Middle East. The project directors are Kenneth Anderson, Arms Project; Gara LaMarche, Free Expression Project; Joanna Weschler, Prison Project; and Dorothy Q. Thomas, Women's Rights Project. The board includes Robert L. Bernstein, chair; Adrian W. DeWind, vice chair; Roland Algrant, Lisa Anderson, Peter D. Bell, Alice L. Brown, William Carmichael, Dorothy Cullman, Irene Diamond, Jonathan Fanton, Alan Finberg, Jack Greenberg, Alice H. Henkin, Stephen L. Kass, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Alexander MacGregor, Peter Osnos, Kathleen Peratis, Bruce Rabb, Orville Schell, Gary G. Sick, and Malcolm Smith. Addresses for Human Rights Watch 485 Fifth Avenue 10951 West Pico Blvd., #203 90 Borough High Street THE NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nation's death penalty laws in 1972, the committed activists who had been fighting for years to end executions thought their work was done. But in 1976, the Court re-opened the way for executions by accepting as constitutional, new death penalty statutes supposedly designed to eliminate the arbitrary and racist imposition of death sentences to which the Court had objected. As life once again came to the nation's death rows, the American Civil Liberties Union initiated the creation of The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) in 1976. The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) leads and coordinates the movement to end state killing in the United States. Its 120 member organizations include civil and human rights groups, legal advocacy and public interest groups, and virtually every major church or religious denomination in the country. Although each constituent group has its own reasons for opposing capital punishment, all agree that justice and public safety require ending executions. The Coalition believes that abolition will come from a multi-faceted approach : the general public must be constantly educated about the problems inherent in the death penalty; churches must continually challenge the morality of executions; Courts must hear challenges to its constitutionality; and the issue must remain a focus of the national debate on violence, crime, and how we respond to them. The NCADP works to facilitate and coordinate in each of these areas. As the only national level organization working solely on abolition, the NCADP serves as a resource clearinghouse, and as an organizing and support center for nationwide efforts to end the death penalty. The board of directors includes Sister Helen Prejean, Chair; Hugo Bedau, Vice-Chair; Pat Clark, Vice-Chair; Marshall Dayan, Vice-Chair; Linda Thurston, Vice-Chair; Kathy Lancaster, Secretary; Beth Ansheles, Treasurer. At-large members are Therese Bangert; Lillie Clark; Mike Farrell; Jonathan Gradess; Ron Hampton; Jane Henderson; Brenda Lewis; Freddie Nixon; Kathy Norgard; Henry Schwarzschild; Hilary Shelton; Sam Reese Sheppard; Earl Shinholster; Jim Sunderland. Ashanti Chimurenga, Kica Matos, Diann Rust-Tierney, National Strategy Committee chairs; Lisa Radelet, Conference Committee chair; Earl Bonder, Development Committee chair; Cathy Ansheles, Membership Committee chair; Pat Bane, Murder Victim's Families chair; Jane Motz, Personnel Committee chair; Bob Domer, Religious Community Committee chair. The staff includes Leigh Dingerson, executive director; Robert Gross, associate director; Pamela Rutter, program coordinator; Gerri Traina, development coordinator; Ricardo Villalobos, organizing coordinator; Flo Achtnich and Kurt Rosenberg are volunteers; Sandra Hinson, Bill Wu, and Dan Gritti are interns. Address for The National
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is an organization of physicians and other health professionals that brings the knowledge and skills of the medical sciences to the investigation and prevention of violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. PHR works to apply the special skills of health professionals to stop torture, "disappearances" and political killings by governments and opposition groups; to report on conditions and protection of detainees in prisons and refugee camps; to investigate the physical and psychological consequences of violations of humanitarian law and medical ethics in internal and international conflicts; to defend the right of civilians and combatants to receive medical care during times of war; to protect health professionals who are victims of human rights abuses; and to prevent medical complicity in torture and other human rights abuses. Since 1986, PHR has sent over 40 fact-finding and emergency missions to over 25 countries. PHR bases its actions on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights and humanitarian agreements. The organization adheres to a policy of strict impartiality and is concerned with the medical consequences of human rights abuses regardless of the ideology of the offending government or group. H. Jack Geiger, M.D. is President; Carola Eisenberg, M.D. is Vice President. The Board of Directors includes: Holly G. Atkinson, M.D.; Hon. J. Kenneth Blackwell; Kevin Cahill, M.D.; Charles Clements, M.D.; John Constable, M.D.; Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D.; Paul Epstein, M.D. ; Robert Kirchner, M.D.; Jennifer Learning, M.D.; Aryeh Neier; Jane Green Schaller, M.D.; M. Roy Schwarz, M.D.; Kim Thorburn, M.D.; Philippe Villers, M.D. The staff includes: Eric Stover, executive director; Susannah Sirkin, deputy director; Kari Hannibal, membership and education coordinator; Gina VanderLoop, development director; Barbara Ayotte, senior program associate; Shana Swiss, M.D., director of Women's Program; Vincent Iacopino, M.D., Western Regional Representative; and Clyde C. Snow, senior forensic consultant. Address for Physicians for
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