Health and Human Rights

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Excited to share my co-authored Viewpoint in the latest issue of @hhrjournal.bsky.social ahead of #HumanRightsDay “When Independence Meets Accountability: Upholding Non-Retrogression in the Human Rights System”: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/12/08/w...

Israeli forces board Gaza-bound aid flotilla, detain activists At least six ships have been boarded by the Israeli navy so far and more interceptions are expected to take place.

At least six ships have been boarded by the Israeli navy so far and more interceptions are expected to take place.

#HHR latest blog: receiving post accident care within 60 mins becomes a constitutional right in India - read @28shambhavi.bsky.social blog here: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/09/30/s...

Check out #HHR latest Viewpoint: editor and former #CDC epidemiologist @joeamon.bsky.social Joe Amon writes about attacks on CDC. He argues that RFK Jr says his job “is to eliminate politics from science,” but his actions are the opposite: Read full Viewpoint here www.hhrjournal.org/2025/09/18/p...

#HHR latest news here, every week. This week: where are the ministries of peace, while Trump creates the 'department of war', and fires at a suspected vessel carrying drugs in international waters. The flotilla carrying aid to Gaza also fired at by Israel... www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

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The Uncertain Path to Legal Recognition and Health Equity for Sexual Minorities in Hong Kong FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Patrick Tang On September 5, 2023, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal delivered a landmark victory for LGBTQ rights in the semi-autonomous city state. In Sham Tsz Kit v...

Hong Kong takes slow cautious moves toward equality for LGBTQ people - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint by Patrick Tang www.hhrjournal.org/2025/08/06/t...

At #HHR @fionacampbell.bsky.social reports on PHRI's paper on A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/29/a...

Pregnant Women’s Urine Trade in Gaza Ekrema Shehab and Bilal Hamamra In Gaza, the humanitarian crisis has led to the emergence of a desperate trade in pregnant women’s urine. This practice, which we first learned about through social ...

Desperate women in Gaza trading in urine to get food & supplements for their families. Ekrema Shehab & Bilal Hamamra write this "is evidence of systemic collapse, resulting from Israeli policies that deliberately undermine Gazans’ ability to survive with dignity." www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/17/p...

Politics of Health in a State of Exception: Martial Law in South Korea FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Yeon Jung Yu, Eojin Yi, Young Su Park, Martin McKee, and Jiho Cha On December 3, 2024, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in South Korea—the first such invoc...

Latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint on doctors' successful fight against #humanrights violations & martial law in #SouthKorea - by Yeon Jung Yu, Eojin Yi, Young Su Park, @martinmckee.bsky.social & Jiho Cha www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/15/p...

Health and Human Rights News Week ending 5 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Financing for development outcomes include health… UNAIDS Director Winnie Byanyima has called the Seville Platform for Actio...

Check out this week's health & human rights news: UN in financial crisis, rights programs cut, trans youth medical records sought, US medical groups sue RFK Jr,
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Are Women’s Rights Human Rights Once and for All? FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT 8 July 2025 Flavia Bustreo, Revati Phalkey, Rajat Khosla, and Kate Gilmore It has been 30 years since the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing platfo...

#HHR Flavia Bustreo, Rajat Khosla @khosla.bsky.social 𝗗𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝘆, & Kate Gilmore showcase successes in women's rights despite the current pushback - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint: sites.harvard.edu/hhrjournal/2...

Upcoming Special Sections All issues include general papers in addition to Special Sections We are currently calling for submissions to two sections: 1 A Viewpoint Series, “Fight for Rights” for immediate publication an...

Deadline approaching (20 July) for #HHR special section Exploring Innovative & Effective Accountability Arrangements and #healthrights: guest eds Paul Hunt & Anuj Kapilashrami www.hhrjournal.org/submissions/...

Health and Human Rights News Week ending 5 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Financing for development outcomes include health… UNAIDS Director Winnie Byanyima has called the Seville Platform for Actio...

Stay up with health & human rights news from around the globe: every week www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

Health and Human Rights News Week ending 5 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Financing for development outcomes include health… UNAIDS Director Winnie Byanyima has called the Seville Platform for Actio...

The week's health and #humanrights news: don't miss it
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Health and Human Rights News Week ending 21 June 2025 Civilian deaths in conflict surged in 2024 Civilian deaths in conflict surged by 40% last year, according to new data released by the UN human rights offic...

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DNA For Sale: The Human Rights Crisis in the 23andMe Bankruptcy Kaori Kawaguchi and Moon Hwan Lee The auction of identity This month, a federal judge in Missouri may authorize the sale of one of the most sensitive genetic archives ever assembled. Through the...

Corporates bid to own your DNA following the bankruptcy of 23andMe! Kaori Kawaguchi and Moon Hwan Lee examine the #humanrights #healthrights implications of treating this database as an asset www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/27/d...

Building Rights-Based Implementation After the Pandemic Agreement Neiloy R. Sircar, Safura Abdool Karim, Roojin Habibi, and Benjamin Mason Meier On May 20, 2025, the World Health Assembly adopted the Pandemic Agreement. Together, with the 2024 amendments to the I...

Although #humanrights were scaled back in #PandemicTreaty negotiations, ‪in our latest blog ‪@sircarn.bsky.social‬ Safura Abdool Karim, @roojinhabibi.org & @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social urge states to incorporate rights in implementation www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/25/b...

Health and Human Rights News Week ending 14 June 2025 Scientists sign up to Bethesda Declaration A letter to US NIH director Jay Bhattacharya signed by hundreds of NIH staffers has been supported by more than 22,000 oth...

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A Doctor’s Resistance in Gaza: Academic Action Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain and Bilal Irfan In January 2024, I (AA) received the headless body of my cousin, Islam Abo Riala, while I was on duty at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hosopital. He was a volunteer ambul...

When taking academic action helps cope with the horrors of war: blog by Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain and Bilal Irfan www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/19/a...

Check out our June 2025 issue: read @joeamon.bsky.social editorial and entire Fight for Rights Viewpoint series www.hhrjournal.org

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Bodies That Resist: Transgender People’s Health and Rights in Colombia   FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES Fernande Álvarez-Molina, Magda Meneses, Andrés Camilo Restrepo Mora, Javier Guerrero, and Catalina González-Uribe Colombia is witnessing a period ...

Read our Fight for Rights Viewpoint where a campaign for trans' peoples' rights successfully brought a bill before the Colombian senate when discrimination & violence were worsening; it illustrates power of social movements when #humanrights are threatened.
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Breaking Barriers: Strengthening Health Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Improved Local Pharmaceutical Production   Stuart Ssebibubbu, Denis Kibira, and Adriano Lubanga Introduction The right to health, enshrined in international human rights frameworks, remains elusive for millions in sub-Saharan ...

Manufacturing medicines in sub-Saharan Africa would stop dependence on an unjust global health order - read our latest Fight for Rights viewpoint by @Stuart Ssebibubbu, Denis Kibira, and Adriano Lubanga #healthrights www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/08/b...

Our latest health & human rights news to 7 June: thousands of scientists sign letter fighting political oversight, civilians & medical facilities targeted by Russian drones, #humanrights needed in climate crises says Túrk, and more...https://www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-human-rights-news/

Diverse Families Under Threat: Reproductive Conservatism   FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES Laura Dragnic Tohá, Paulina Macías Ortega, and Guillermina Pappier Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have played a transformative role in exp...

Latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint looks courts & legislatures globally that are embracing reproductive conservatism— reinforcing boundaries about who can become a parent & who can't - limiting #reproductiverights for #LGBTQI+ - by Laura Dragnic Toha et al, www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/02/d...

Health and Human Rights: Territories in Dispute FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Jacqueline Pitanguy Health and human rights are part of a political battlefield in which interpretations of religion, culture, science, and judicial systems are consta...

Our latest Viewpoint examines the far right tactic of binary narratives, good & evil, with the left & #healthrights #humanrights being the evil side - Jacqueline Pitanguy says never give up, & suggests strategies www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/29/h...

Reclaiming Sexual and Reproductive Rights Through a Decolonial Lens FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Tlaleng Mofokeng The world is experiencing unprecedented attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) that threaten decades of progress.[1] From restric...

Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, brings a decolonial lens to #SRHR in a Fight for Rights Viewpoint: she examines power rooted in colonial legacies & structural racism at a time of attacks on abortion & criminalization of LGBTQIA+ ppl www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/26/r...