The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recently stated many facts in its 2010 report. This includes the mention of health providers in medical facilities, juvenile detention centers, drug treatment and so-called social rehabilitation centers, to withhold care or deliberately prescribe treatment which inflicts pain.

The essay which was titled ‘Abusing Patients: Health Providers’ Complicity in Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or degrading Treatment, reveals the cruelest examples of this kind of torture.

It says, “Government health policies that subject patients to torture or ill-treatment and the failure of national and international medical societies to prevent medical provider complicity in such abuse.”

Research from countries like Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Iraqi Kurdistan, China, Cambodia, India, and Nicaragua contributed to the essay.

HRW has documented the human rights violations suffered by women and girls in most countries which include those who are related to pregnancy, birth, and women’s role as caregivers and providers.

They also called on the international human rights protection system to address state-sponsored torture and ill-treatment in medical settings.

Several other violent abuses by those national institutions have been revealed in the report, which are supposed to protect human rights.