Blogs

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…

Varun Raj Wahane and Azma Khan  The rights to health, nutrition, and shelter of some Indigenous tribes in the Indian controlled territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are being threatened by the Indian government’s planned huge…

Dana Repka The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls has released a guiding document on key considerations for conscientious objection to abortion, explicitly recommending that States prohibit…

Benjamin Mason Meier, Neha Saggi, and Padmini Murthy The 2024 US election campaign offered divergent approaches to US leadership in global health, with former President Trump campaigning on a platform that would undermine human rights, reject public…

The ECtHR has upheld France's law criminalizing the purchase of sexual services, even between consenting adults, which threatens sex workers' rights across Europe.

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia the HIV epidemic is growing rapidly driven by injecting drug use and unprotected sex. In every other region it has slowed and mortality has decreased.