Archive: 2025

Week ending 7 April 2025 World Health Day, 7 April Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures: today starts a year focusing on maternal and newborn health. The World Health Organization is indeed hopeful this focus will urge governments to ramp up…

Wazida Rahman and Manvitha Bangalore Shekar LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers persistently confront profound challenges due to systemic legal disparities between countries, ranging from partial recognition of their identities and rights to outright…

Week ending 21 March 2025 Philippines’ Duterte faces crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court Former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested and extradited on 11 March following the ICC’s warrant and…

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…