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Health and Human Rights

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A peer reviewed open access journal promoting global health equity and the right to health. Published by the FXB Center, Harvard University, and the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

#HHR our latest issue, December 2025, is just out for #HumanRightsDay - two special sections #healthrights accountability & institutional corruption & mental health Take a look now : www.hhrjournal.org

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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Mariah Grant @mariahegrant.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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...

When Independence Meets Accountability: Upholding Non-Retrogression in the Human Rights System – HHR Journal

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/2025

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

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.

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#HHR Read all the health and human rights news from around the globe every week, here: www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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...

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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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...

A destruction of the conditions of life: Report on Genocide in Gaza

Fiona Campbell Israel’s military campaign is deliberately and systematically dismantling Gaza’s health and life-sustaining systems, says Physicians for Human Rights Israel, in a position paper rele...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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...

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 ...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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...

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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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, www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

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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...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

#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...

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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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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/...

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...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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

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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...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The week's health and #humanrights news: don't miss it www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

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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...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Read this week's health & human rights news www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

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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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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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...

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...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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...

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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This week's health & #humanrights news now online: www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

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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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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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...

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...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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. www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/09/b...

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 ...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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...

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 ...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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/

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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...

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...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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...

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...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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...

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...

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NonnaRama @nonnarama.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I think this is a lovely weekly news feed to follow. #resist

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This week's health & human rights news is out now: World leaders commit more $ to WHO to plug gaps left by US, increasing attacks on healthcare documented, Pandemic Treaty finally adopted, slow moves to avoid Gaza famine...Stay up to date here, every week: sites.harvard.edu/hhrjournal/h...

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Week ending 24 May 2025 World leaders commit extra funding to WHO… The 78th World Health Assembly, convening this week under the theme “One World for Health”, saw member states voting to inc...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

#HHR @ericfriedman.bsky.social & @gostin.bsky.social propose a tax on the ultrarich to feed & treat those starving & dying in humanitarian crises globally #healthrights #humanrights www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/20/a...

A Tax on the World’s Ultra-Rich to Fight Hunger and Disease

  FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin On April 1, 2025, Forbes published a list of a record 3,028 billionaires worldwide, including 902 in the United State...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Viewpoint by Patrick Ndeba, Faraan O. Rahim, et al on humanitarian crisis in DRC following M23 Rebel invasion in #Goma They support UN call for humanitarian assistance & accountability to protect #humanrights, #healthrights of in DRC www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/18/g...

Goma Under Siege: A Humanitarian and Health Catastrophe

Patrick Ndeba, Faraan O. Rahim, Meriem Boukaabar, Mohamed Shilleh, Omar Shilleh, Alaa Shilleh, and Dang Nguyen On January 27, 2025, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered the city of Goma in the eastern...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Keep up with health and human rights news, every week: www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

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Week ending 17 May 2025 WHO agrees famine in Gaza is imminent Israel’s aid blockade to Gaza has now persisted for 80 days, leaving the Gaza Strip without food, fuel, medical supplies, and o...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#HHR #Taiwan's UHC & #healthrights protected by Constitutional Court ruling & public support that stopped unfair access & lack of fair contribution by expats - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint by Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/13/m...

Maintaining the Right to Health: A Democratic Process in Taiwan

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee Taiwan, with a population of 23.56 million, implemented a nationwide single-payer health care system in 1995—the National Health Insuranc...

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Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#HHR Involuntary commitment for addiction support likely to expand under new US administration despite lack of evidence to support its use. John Messinger & Leo Beletsky write this approach may increase deaths among people who use drugs: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/12/w...

What’s Old Is New Again in Addiction Treatment: The Expansion of Involuntary Commitment in the United States

PERSPECTIVE John C. Messinger and Leo Beletsky Introduction The recent confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has raised numerou...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#HHR Here's a Fight for Rights viewpoint that helped fulfil women's rights to reproductive health in Northern Ireland: access to first trimester screening - so important: @clairelougarre.bsky.social Suzie Heaney and Fiona Bloomer explain tactics: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/11/a...

Advocating for Reproductive Rights in Northern Ireland: Access to First-Trimester Screening

    FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Fiona Bloomer, Suzie Heaney, and Claire Lougarre  Authoritarian populist governments around the globe are attacking reproductive rights as par...

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Northeastern Law @nusl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

”While there is much more to do and the work continues, the long-term, grassroots-led advocacy to recognize and honor the human right to water in Michigan has made a difference,” writes Professor Martha Davis in her latest blog for @hhrjournal.bsky.social.

Local Advocates Make Slow but Steady Progress on Water Affordability

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Martha F. Davis In 2014, in the midst of the financial crisis in the US city of Detroit, the city began systematically shutting off water service to tens of thousands ...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#HHR Our latest editorial by @joeamon.bsky.social links attacks on free speech with #healthrights & genocide; Trump's crack down on universities & silencing debate on Gaza—where health rights are violated—is prelude for silencing debate at home www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/07/f...

Free Speech, the Right to Health, and Genocide

EDITORIAL Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 1-11 PDF Joseph J. Amon Introduction The right to health is not usually realized through the benevolence of governments as much as the demands of populations. A...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#HHR paper by @brionyharden27.bsky.social et al examines natl dementia plans for #humanrights content: some rights fare well, those on non coercive practices less so. Read paper here: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/06/a...

A Content Review of National Dementia Plans: Are Human Rights Considered?

  Briony Harden, Yinuo Mao, Justin Weiss, Selina Hsuan, Orii McDermott, Michelle Funk, Natalie Drew, Katrin Seeher, Tarun Dua, and Martin Orrell AbstractThe World Health Organization has se...

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Jonathan Crock @jonathancrock.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Congratulations to Isabella Long, American University student, on her urgent and impactful article in Harvard's Health and Human Rights Journal: "From Forced Sterilization to Fertility Technology." @sisresearch.bsky.social @ausis.bsky.social @auwcl.bsky.social @hhrjournal.bsky.social

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

#HHR addressing reproductive health disparities in Puerto Rico requires redress for a long history of medical abuse: Read our latest blog by Isabella Long www.hhrjournal.org/2025/04/21/f...

From Forced Sterilization to Fertility Technology: Addressing Medical Mistrust in Puerto Rico

From Forced Sterilization to Fertility Technology: Addressing Medical Mistrust in Puerto Rico Isabella Long Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) aided in 2% (74,926) of births in the United St...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

#HHR Indian Supreme Ct rules to protect #humanrights #healthrights in landmark climate change & environment case which started over the Gt Indian Bustard - blog by Parth Chhapolia www.hhrjournal.org/2025/04/20/a...

A Breath of Fresh Air: Indian Supreme Court Declares Protection from Climate Change a Fundamental Right

Parth Chhapolia In an era when the climate crisis poses existential challenges, the Indian Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in M.K. Ranjitsinh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. (2024) signifies a...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

#HHR this week's news includes Harvard's defence of its principles & rights, med journals under attack, deepening hunger & humanitarian crisis in Palestine & Sudan www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

#HHR latest blog looks at the harassment & #humanrights violations that force #LGBTQ+ people to flee their home countries, but persists when they are refugees - Wazida Rahman & Manvitha Bangalore Shekar call for rights-based changes to legal & social processes www.hhrjournal.org/2025/04/09/p...

Persecuted at Home, Harassed Across Borders: Denial of LGBTQ+ Refugee Rights

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 re...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Fighting for rights has successes: Martha Davis presents the fight to have water recognised as a #humanright in Detroit - community activism resulted in affordable water plans for 000s of low income households. www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/16/l...

Local Advocates Make Slow but Steady Progress on Water Affordability

    FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Martha F. Davis In 2014, in the midst of the financial crisis in the US city of Detroit, the city began systematically shutting off water servic...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Viewpoint: Adriana Petryna urges broader consideration of emergency first responders in conflict zones under Intl Humanitarian Law: when conditions essential to civilian life are under siege, the life saving work of first responders must be recognised www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/11/t...

The Other Humanitarians: Emergency First Responders and the Problem of Eradication-Level Harm

VIEWPOINT Adriana Petryna International humanitarian law (IHL) provides a framework to protect health workers and health facilities from violent attacks in conflict zones, which are on the rise and we...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

#HHR latest Viewpoint by Moses Mulumba, et al demands that states are held to account for health aid commitments: these are legally binding. Stopping aid is a failure of accountability, it imposes financial hardship & reinforces historical injustices www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/05/e...

Enforceable Commitments to Global Health Needed to Fulfill Rights

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Moses Mulumba, Jessica Oga, Juliana Nantaba, and Ana Lorena Ruano The recent shifts in global health policy, particularly the United States’ sudden retreat from key funding...

Health and Human Rights @hhrjournal.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Latest Viewpoint in Fight for Rights series Thomas Pogge proposes Let All Children Eat - fight aid freezes by joining a scheme for global school lunches: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/02/l...

Let All Children Eat

Let All Children Eat Let All Children Eat VIEWPOINT SERIES: FIGHT FOR RIGHTS Thomas Pogge The billionaires fight a two-front war. Within the United States, they fight to convert the country int...