Never again is now global | Vera Sharav

Vera Sharav is a public advocate for human rights and is the founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) which serves as an information resource and public interest watchdog organisation whose goal is to unlock the walls of secrecy in biomedical research and bring accountability to that endeavour.

AHRP Infomails have a wide following: they are read by physicians and scientists, public health officials, journalists, lawyers, and patient advocacy organisations.

Vera's advocacy achievements include the suspension of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pesticide experiment (CHEERS) on children; a complaint that led to two federal investigations on the use of children in foster care as guinea pigs in experimental AIDS drug and vaccine trials; the suspension of the smallpox vaccine on children; the suspension of a “violence prediction” experiment that exposed 6–11 year old NYC boys of colour to fenfluramine; and she has opened a public debate about the ethics of relapse-inducing experiments in schizophrenia patients. Organised families and victims of unethical research to join her in testifying before the National Bioethics Advisory Committee (NBAC) — re: unethical experimentation on mentally disabled psychiatric patients; those testimonies led to a prize-winning series in the Boston Globe, “Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill” — ultimately resulting in the shutdown of 29 clinical trials at the National Institute of Mental Health (1999).

In 2023, Vera directed, produced and released her first documentary - a five-part series entitled NEVER AGAIN IS NOW GLOBAL. Holocaust survivors, children and grandchildren of survivors express their concerns about the ominous current repressive government edicts, fear-mongering propaganda, censorship, intrusive government mandates, and the threat of expulsion from society. These survivors are likely to be the last generation of witnesses who remember.

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