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Ecuador Court Forces Tax Changes to Comply with the Right to Health
Berenice Cerra and Daniel Dorado, 11 September 2024
Climate Adaptation and Human Rights: Potential Directions for Health Advocacy and Research
Sandra Smiley and Michele Heisler, 18 July 2024
Procedural Accommodation Needed for Persons with Psychosocial or Intellectual Disabilities in Criminal Justice Processes
Gautam Gulati, Brendan D. Kelly, and Mary Donnelly, 13 June 2024
Drone Attacks on Health in 2023: International Humanitarian Law and the Right to Health
Joseph J. Amon and Leonard Rubenstein, 7 June 2024
Psychological and Social Suffering of Another Generation of Palestinian Children Living Under Occupation: An Urgent Call to Advocate
Tania Bosqui, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Rima A. Afifi, et al., 24 May 2024
Challenging Abortion Rights: Proposed Legislation in Italy
Daniel Pizzolato, Dorothea Chatzikonstantinou, and Alice Cavolo, 22 April 2024
To Achieve a Healthier World, Global Health Law and Policy Must Be Grounded in Human Rights
Book Review by David Patterson, 8 April 2024
US Clinicians Face a Dual Loyalty Crisis over Reproductive Health Care
Ranit Mishori, Payal K. Shah, Karen Naimer, and Michele Heisler, 3 March 2024
Fighting the (Mis)fortunes in Global Health
Book Review by Rebecca Riddell, 18 February 2024
Palestine Health and Settler Colonialism: A Call to Action
Raquel Selcer and Sanjna L. Surya, 20 December 2023
Navigating Public Health in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Charting a Path Forward
William C. Lieber, Faraan O. Rahim, Bhav Jain, Devesh Shah, and Mohammad Z. Sahloul,
19 December 2023
Occupation is a Public Health Crisis Too
Anurima Kumar and Meera Rothman, 21 November 2023
Human Rights and Medical Conferences: Against Conventional Wisdom
Jacob M. Appel, 31 August 2023
An Explicit Right to Abortion is Needed in International Human Rights Law
Audrey Chapman, 30 June 2023
Scientific Awakening: Violation of Human Rights of Academic Scholars and Healthcare Professionals in Iran
Mahtab Jafari and Parya Saberi, 18 May 2023
Women’s Health and Rights: Time to Recommit
Flavia Bustreo and Rajat Khosla, 4 May 2023
BOOK REVIEW: Health Rights for All: The Imperative of Including All Migrants
Jacqueline Bhabha, 30 March 2023
BOOK REVIEW: Finding Hope in the Work on War and Health
Samer Jabbour, 30 January 2023
Post-Roe and Women Under Carceral Surveillance
Ira Memaj and Robert E. Fullilove
13 December 2022
Access to Vaccines and New Zealand’s Distinctive Response to COVID-19
Paul Hunt and Sophie Bradwell-Pollak
Children Arriving in the United States Need Strong Safeguards
Michael Garcia Bochenek and Warren Binford
19 April 2022
Pandemic Treaty Should Include Reporting in Prisons
Kyle Knight, Julia Bleckner, Edwin Cameron, and Joseph J. Amon
17 April 2022
US High-Level Office for Children is Critical for Children’s Rights
Miriam Abaya, Nandita Bajaj, Warren Binford, Michelle Blake, Carter Dillard, James Dold, Hope Ferdowsian, Wendy Lazarus, Reid Maki, Shantel Meek, Jerry Milner, Jennifer Nagda, Vidya Kumar Ramanathan, Nevena Vuckovic Sahovic, and Jonathan Todres
10 March 2022
BOOK REVIEW: How to Resuscitate an Ailing Norm
Abby Stoddard
8 February 2022
Addressing Stigma is Not Enough
Joseph J. Amon, Nina Sun, Alexandrina Iovita, Ralf Jurgens, and Joanne Csete
27 January 2022
Health Workers on the Political Frontlines
Gideon Lasco, Raudah Mohd Yunus, Edward Christopher Dee, and Martin McKee
12 January 2022
The Right to a Healthy Environment is a Powerful Sword for Climate Justice
Timothy Arvan
8 December 2021
The Climate Emergency is a Human Rights Issue
Vicente Silva Didier
7 December 2021
Contradictions Between Pledges, Declarations, and Action at COP26
Stephen Gasteyer
2 December 2021
Human Rights, Public Health, and Disability Awareness Training of Police
Gautam Gulati, Brendan D. Kelly, Alan Cusack, Shane Kilcommins, and Colum P. Dunne
5 December 2021
First Responders with a Rights-Based Approach to Mental Health Crises
Tamar Ezer and Denise Tomasini-Joshi
10 October 2021
Trans-institutionalisation in Ireland: New and Emerging Congregated Settings for People with Disabilities
Gautam Gulati, Alan Cusack, Brendan D. Kelly, Valerie E. Murphy, Shane Kilcommins, and Colum P. Dunne
13 August 2021
Inequity is an Iniquity: Speaking Up for Aspiring African Researchers
Adelaide M. Lusambili and Constance S. Shumba
9 August 2021
Kashmir: Public Health and Human Rights Crises
Nida S. Zubairi and Omar J. Baqal
6 July 2021
Five Years After Security Council’s Resolution to Protect Health Care in Conflict: Still at Zero?
Leonard Rubenstein
29 June 2021
Lies, Damned Lies, and “Official” Statistics
Maria Gargiulo and Megan Price,
24 June 2021
Drug Company Practices: Is COVID-19 a New Dawn for Human Rights Norms or Business as Usual?
Katrina Perehudoff and Tessa Jolan Jager,
16 March 2021
Applying a Human Rights Lens to the Work of the Biden Task Force on Separated Families
Jennifer McQuaid and Randi Mandelbaum, 10 March 2021
The Value of Human Rights for Vaccine Prioritization at the National Level
Sharifah Sekalala, 8 February 2021
International Human Rights Process Finally Achieves Equal Treatment for Foreign Teachers in Korea: The Case of L.G. vs Republic of Korea
Benjamin K. Wagner, 11 January 2021
Healthcare Worker Risks as Women’s Rights Violations
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, 15 December 2020
World AIDS Day 2020: Further Shifting the Paradigm to Transform the HIV Response
Courtenay Sprague, 1 December 2020
Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Patrick Leisure, 18 November 2020
COVID-19 in Turkmenistan: No Data, No Health Rights
Aynabat Yaylymova, 5 October 2020
COVID-19: Urgent Need to Find Alternatives to Prison Sentences in Malawi
Marie Claire Van Hout, 13 September 2020
Paradigm Under Threat: Health and Human Rights Today
Jonathan Cohen, 2 September 2020
Human Rights Must Be Central to the International Health Regulations
Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna E. Huffstetler, and Roojin Habibi, 26 August 2020
Eliminating Asylum: The Effects of Trump Administration Policies
Katherine C. McKenzie, Eleanor Emery, Kathryn Hampton, and Sural Shah, 24 August 2020
Address Exacerbated Health Disparities and Risks to LGBTQ+ Individuals during COVID-19
Sara Wallach, Alex Garner, Sean Howell, Tyler Adamson, Stefan Baral, and Chris Beyrer, 13 August 2020
Good Health Indicators are Not Enough: Lessons from COVID-19 in Peru
Camila Gianella, Ruth Iguiñiz-Romero, María José Romero, and Jasmine Gideon, 30 June 2020
Learning from the Past: COVID-19 and Affordable Health Treatment
Diya Uberoi, 25 June 2020
Revisiting Restrictions of Rights After COVID-19
Leonard Rubenstein and Matthew DeCamp, 3 June 2020
Do COVID-19 Responses Imperil the Human Rights of People with Disabilities?
Gautam Gulati, Colum P. Dunne, and Brendan D. Kelly, 3 June 2020
Pandemic Stresses the Human Rights Imperatives of Tackling HIV and Hepatitis in Middle East and North African Prisons
Marie Claire Van Hout and Elie Aaraj, 25 May 2020
Leaving No-one Behind: The Human Tragedy of Children in African Prisons during COVID-19
Marie Claire Van Hout, 12 May 2020
Public Money Creation to Maintain Fundamental Human Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Takondwa Chimowa, Stephen Hall, and Bernadette O’Hare, 6 May 2020
Upholding Rights Under COVID-19: The Respectful Maternity Care Charter
R. Rima Jolivet, Charlotte E Warren, Pooja Sripad, Elena Ateva, Jewel Gausman, Kate Mitchell, Hagar Palgi Hacker, Emma Sacks, and Ana Langer, 1 May 2020
Contact Tracing Apps: Extra Risks for Women and Marginalized Groups
Sara L.M. Davis, 29 April 2020
Applying Siracusa: A Call for a General Comment on Public Health Emergencies
Nina Sun, 23 April 2020
COVID-19 Economy vs Human Rights: A Misleading Dichotomy
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, 21 April 2020
Gaol Fever: What COVID-19 Tells us about the War on Drugs
Rick Lines, Naomi Burke-Shyne, and Giada Girelli, 20 April 2020
COVID-19: Restricted Internet Impacts on Health in Kashmir
Adi Radhakrishnan, 15 April 2020
Anti-Roma Racism is Spiraling During COVID-19 Pandemic
Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha, 8 April 2020
Controlling COVID-19: The Folly of International Travel Restrictions
Weijun Yu and Jessica Keralis, 5 April 2020
The Evolution of the Right to Health in the Shadow of COVID-19
Lisa Forman, 2 April 2020
Lessons from HIV to Guide COVID-19 Responses in the Central African Republic
Pierre Somse and Patrick M. Eba, 1 April 2020
Living on the Edge: COVID-19 Adds to Distress and Discrimination of Indian Transgender Communities
Swarupa Deb, 26 March 2020
A Rights-Based Response to COVID-19: Lessons Learned from HIV and TB Epidemics
Tenu Avafia, Boyan Konstantinov, Kene Esom, Judit Rius Sanjuan, and Rebecca Schleifer
24 March 2020
COVID-19 and Detention: Respecting Human Rights
Joseph J. Amon, 24 March 2020
Protecting Children’s Rights As Schools Close
Jacqueline Bhabha, Margaret M. Sullivan, and Mary T. Bassett, 23 March 2020
Human Rights and Coronavirus: What’s at Stake for Truth, Trust, and Democracy?
Alicia Ely Yamin and Roojin Habibi, 2 March 2020
How Can We Overcome the Great Procrastination to Respond to the Climate Emergency?
Rachel Hammonds, 10 February 2020
Celebrating 25 years: From Aspiration to Reality, An Australian Postscript
Claire E Brolan, 4 February 2020
A Democracy Deficit in Digital Health
Sara L. M. Davis, Kenechukwu Esom, Rico Gustav, Allan Maleche, and Mike Podmore
17 January 2020
Impunity: Undermining the Health and Human Rights Consensus
Chris Beyrer, 15 January 2020
Human Rights in Global Health Governance
Benjamin Mason Meier, Margherita Marianna Cinà, and Lawrence O. Gostin, 13 January 2020
What Does it Mean to Adopt a Human Rights-based Approach to Drug Policy?
Damon Barrett, Julie Hannah, and Rick Lines, 9 January 2020
Human Rights Education Must Become Central to the Health Curriculum
Lawrence O. Gostin, Hanna Huffstetler, and Benjamin Mason Meier, 6 January 2020
Challenges in Promoting the Interdependence of all Human Rights
Dainius Pūras, 19 December 2019
A Letter to Young and Future Leaders in Struggles for Health Rights and Social Justice
Alicia Ely Yamin, 17 December 2019
The Maturing Right to Health: Deeper, Broader and More Complex but Still Unequal
Gillian MacNaughton, 17 December 2019
War, Political Conflict, and the Right to Health
Leonard Rubenstein, 11 December 2019
Health and Human Rights at a Crossroads
Rajat Khosla, 11 December 2019
The Right to Health: Then, Now and a Call to Arms
Audrey Chapman, 10 December 2019
Reflections on 25 Years of Health and Human Rights: History, Context, and the Need for Strategic Action
Sofia Gruskin, 10 December 2019
Viewpoints: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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