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VIEWPOINT SERIES: FIGHT FOR RIGHTS

Call for Viewpoints

In 2025, democracy, equity, human rights, and social justice are being challenged in countries around the world, including in the United States, and authoritarian regimes are increasing in number. Economic inequality is at its highest level since the neoliberal project began over 50 years ago, but authoritarian rulers threaten to remove the very structures that support the least well off, and to disregard evidence, science, and public health. Social media platforms provide malicious leaders – and their allies – with unchecked power to mislead and misinform the public, not only threatening health and other economic and social rights but creating division and mistrust across all of society. 

HHR invites Viewpoints that highlight how attacks on a broad range of human rights threaten progress in achieving the right to the highest attainable standard of health. 

In no more than 1500 words (including references) Viewpoints should identify specific threats to health rights (globally, nationally, or locally), focus on the various concerns of communities, and/or suggest ways of monitoring, measuring, and challenging these threats.

The selected Viewpoints will be published on the website throughout the next few months, and all will be considered for inclusion in our June issue, 2025.

For further information, contact Carmel Williams, Executive Editor: williams@hsph.harvard.edu