Health Faculty Call for Ceasefire in Gaza and Centering Palestine in the Classroom
Over 100 US medical and health faculty write an open letter to President Biden calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to attacks on hospitals.
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Health and Human Rights Journal Announces Amon as Editor-in-Chief
Harvard University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, co-publishers of the Health and Human Rights Journal, have announced the appointment of Drexel Professor…
UK AI Safety Summit will Impact Global Health: Time to Strengthen Rights-Based AI Governance
The forthcoming high-level UK AI Safety Summit focuses on existential threats caused by the rapid growth and proliferation of AI systems, including to health
UK Cost-of-Living Crisis and Food Banks: A Right to Health Critique
Sharifah Sekalala, Kevin Hearty, and Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa
Interspersed between headlines of multiple crises in the United Kingdom such as leaving the European Union, COVID-19, successive changes of government, the war in Ukraine, and public sector…
UN Expert Addresses Privacy and Health Rights Concerns in Digital Technology
Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion and Timothy Wafula
Digital technology and its benefits and risks to the right to health are the focus of the latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the Special…
Women’s Health Rights can Guide International Climate Litigation: KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland before the European Court of Human Rights
Hannah van Kolfschooten and Angela Hefti
All over the world, individuals are taking governments to court for their role in climate change, or rather, their “climate inaction”. The 2022 Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation Policy Report shows…