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Caption: Doctors Against the Border Force Act protesting in Brisbane, 8 August 2015 By Alison Blaiklock Doctors, health workers, teachers and other professionals across Australia continue to demonstrate against the legislation that bars health and…

By Unarose Hogan If I asked you to envision a country where reproductive health rights are denied to the extent that women must travel to neighboring countries for abortion “asylum” in 2015; where emergency contraception without a prescription became…

The Right to Health of the Child: An Analytical Exploration of the International Normative Framework S.I. Spronk-van der Meer Intersentia ISBN 978-1-78068-272-3 345 pages $29.95 By Health and Human Rights Journal intern Antonia Chan The Right to…

Alicia Ely Yamin Alicia Ely Yamin’s TEDx talk “Patterns of health and ill-health are not just the result of biological or behavioral factors, but they are also the results of power relations, and often – as Paul Farmer says – pathologies of…

By Antonia Chan On Monday, President Obama unveiled a landmark plan to combat climate change: new regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that require states to meet carbon emission reduction standards based on their individual…

By Antonia Chan Leading AIDS scientists and officials have released the Vancouver Consensus at the opening of the International AIDS Society Conference, calling for a worldwide shift to providing immediate antiretroviral treatment (ARV) after…