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Diederik Lohman

Diederik Lohman

Director, Health and Human Rights Follow @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.

Articles Authored

  • October 21, 2018 Dispatches

    Efforts to Tackle Illegal Drugs ‘Spectacular’ Failure

  • October 12, 2017 Dispatches

    Report in Lancet Calls for Needed Pain Relief

  • October 12, 2017 Dispatches

    Mexico Improves Provisions for End-of-Life Care

  • October 12, 2017 Dispatches

    Senegal Makes Strides on Palliative Care

  • June 10, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Global HIV Summit Sabotaged By Bigotry

  • May 3, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: UN Condemns Attacks on Health Facilities and Medical Workers

  • April 22, 2016 Blog

    A Missed Opportunity to End the War on Drugs

  • April 20, 2016 Blog

    Guatemala: Where (Legal) Pain Relief is all but Impossible

  • March 22, 2016 Blog

    The War on Drugs – A Cure Worse Than the Disease

  • February 1, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Achieving Pain Relief For Millions

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Other Writing

  • Access to Pain Treatment as a Human Right
  • Denial of Pain Treatment and the Prohibition of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or DegradingTreatment or Punishment
  • Pain Relief: A Human Right

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Reports Authored

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    October 28, 2014

    Care When There Is No Cure

    Ensuring the Right to Palliative Care in Mexico

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    June 2, 2011

    Global State of Pain Treatment

    Access to Medicines and Palliative Care

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    May 12, 2011

    Uncontrolled Pain

    Ukraine’s Obligation to Ensure Evidence-Based Palliative Care

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    October 28, 2009

    Unbearable Pain

    India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care

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    March 3, 2009

    "Please, do not make us suffer any more…"

    Access to Pain Treatment as a Human Right

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    November 18, 2008

    A Testing Challenge

    The Experience of Lesotho’s Universal HIV Counseling and Testing Campaign

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    November 7, 2007

    Rehabilitation Required

    Russia’s Human Rights Obligation to Provide Evidence-based Drug Dependence Treatment

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    October 19, 2004

    The Wrongs of Passage

    Inhuman and Degrading Treatment of New Recruits in the Russian Armed Forces

  • November 13, 2003

    To Serve Without Health

    Inadequate Nutrition and Health Care in the Russian Armed Forces

  • November 21, 2002

    Conscription Through Detention In Russia's Armed Forces

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