Archive: 2025

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 States, 516 in China, and 205 in India. Their total net worth was…

VIEWPOINT 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),…

Week ending 11 May 2025 Editorial links free speech, health rights, and genocide Health and Human Rights editor-in-chief Joseph Amon explains the links between the Trump administration’s attack on universities-“the professors are the enemy” says…

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 Insurance (NHI)—which has achieved 99.9% universal health…

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 numerous concerns regarding the future shape of the United…

11 May 2025 FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Fiona Bloomer, Suzie Heaney, and Claire Lougarre  Authoritarian populist governments around the globe are attacking reproductive rights as part of political strategies to reinforce traditional gender…