Archive: 2025

Week ending 27 September 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now United Nations 80th anniversary: better together At this week’s 80th UN General Assembly in New York City, UNGA President Annalena Baerbock said signing of the UN…

Shambhavi Singh In trauma medicine, the “golden hour” is the first 60 minutes after a serious injury—the period when rapid intervention can be the difference between life and death. Countries have built emergency systems around this principle: in the…

UN declares genocide in Gaza Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a UN Independent International Commission announced on 16 September. The Commission urges Israel and all States to fulfil their legal obligations under…

Week ending 13 September 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now No ministries of peace, laments Türk “We need to safeguard 80 years of progress on freedom, equality, and justice,” Human Rights Chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights…

VIEWPOINT Joseph J. Amon  On September 2, 2025, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “politicized science had corroded” the purpose of the Centers for Disease…

Michelle Suh, Marc David Robinson, and Holland Kaplan Abstract Dual loyalty dilemmas are conflicts between health care professionals’ obligations toward their patients and third-party interests. These conflicts are more common and starker in…

Week ending 7 September 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Harvard wins legal victory in Trump’s power battle Harvard University (co-publisher of Health and Human Rights) has won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the…

VIEWPOINT, 10 September 2025 Winona Xu Introduction: A narrowed human rights lens The United States State Department has reported annually on the state of human rights around the world since Congress mandated it to in the 1970s. But this year’s…

Shambhavi Singh In August 2024, the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark ruling about silicosis (a preventable but incurable lung disease caused by silica dust exposure) finding failure to prevent the disease to be a violation of the…

Week ending 31 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Famine confirmed in Gaza An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis has confirmed that Gaza is experiencing a famine, with conditions projected to spread…