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- Susannah Sirkin
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Susannah Sirkin is Deputy Director, International Policy and Advocacy, for Physicians for Human Rights, a position she has held since 1987. Ms. Sirkin has organized health and human rights investigations to dozens of countries, including recent documentation of genocide in Darfur and Sudan. Ms. Sirkin has led the organization's Darfur Survival Campaign.
Sirkin has organized health and human rights investigations to dozens of countries, including recent documentation of genocide and systematic rape in Darfur, Sudan; PHR's exhumations of mass graves in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunals; investigations into consequences of human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Kosovo, Kuwait, Somalia, Turkey, and the US.
- Rev. Gloria W. White-Hammond, M.D.
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Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. is the Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, MA and recently retired as a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center, where she served for 26 years.
Since 2001 Dr. White-Hammond has made seven trips into war-torn southern Sudan where she has been involved in obtaining the freedom of 10,000 women and children who were enslaved during the two decades long civil war. In 2002 she co-founded My Sister's Keeper, a humanitarian women's group that partners with women of Sudan in their efforts toward reconciliation and reconstruction of their communities. She recently served as the National Chairperson of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign and is the Co-Founder of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur.