Archive: 2025

Week ending 7 March 2025 International Women’s Day 2025: For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment As the world celebrates 30 years of achievement on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, gender discrimination…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Martha F. Davis In 2014, in the midst of the financial crisis in the US city of Detroit, the city began systematically shutting off water service to tens of thousands of low-income households that were behind in paying…

VIEWPOINT Adriana Petryna International humanitarian law (IHL) provides a framework to protect health workers and health facilities from violent attacks in conflict zones, which are on the rise and well documented.[1] The year 2023 was the…

Week ending 28 February 2025 Case study on rights-based approach to health in Kenya wins inaugural HHR Best Paper prize (2024) HHR is delighted to award its inaugural celebration of excellent research and writing to Esther Kamau and Gillian…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Moses Mulumba, Jessica Oga, Juliana Nantaba, and Ana Lorena Ruano The recent shifts in global health policy, particularly the United States’ sudden retreat from key funding commitments and the Dutch government’s decision…

VIEWPOINT SERIES: FIGHT FOR RIGHTS  Thomas Pogge The billionaires fight a two-front war. Within the United States, they fight to convert the country into an enduring plutocracy in which their wealth will enable them to dominate the three branches of…