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Diederik Lohman
Diederik Lohman is the acting director of the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. He is an expert on health rights, palliative care, and global drug policy. Previously, he served as senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division and as the Moscow office director. Lohman has conducted extensive research on, and written about, palliative care, drug dependence treatment and HIV treatment for drug users, human rights in armed conflict and inside the armed forces, and police abuse. He founded the Russian Justice Initiative, an organization that helps victims of the conflict in Chechnya seek justice through domestic institutions in Russia and the European Court of Human Rights. Lohman has a background in Russian studies and international law and speaks Russian, Spanish, French, Dutch, and German.
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Care When There Is No Cure
Ensuring the Right to Palliative Care in Mexico
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Global State of Pain Treatment
Access to Medicines and Palliative Care
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Uncontrolled Pain
Ukraine’s Obligation to Ensure Evidence-Based Palliative Care
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Unbearable Pain
India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care
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"Please, do not make us suffer any more…"
Access to Pain Treatment as a Human Right
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A Testing Challenge
The Experience of Lesotho’s Universal HIV Counseling and Testing Campaign
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Rehabilitation Required
Russia’s Human Rights Obligation to Provide Evidence-based Drug Dependence Treatment
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The Wrongs of Passage
Inhuman and Degrading Treatment of New Recruits in the Russian Armed Forces
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To Serve Without Health
Inadequate Nutrition and Health Care in the Russian Armed Forces
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