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Archive: May 2025

Health and Human Rights News

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 increase their dues by 20% thereby helping to plug…

Health and Human Rights: Territories in Dispute

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 109-111, PDF Published 29 May 2025 Jacqueline Pitanguy Health and human rights are part of a political battlefield in which interpretations of religion, culture, science, and judicial systems are…

Health and Human Rights News

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 other goods indispensable for human survival. The…

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

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 121-124, PDF Published 20 May 2025 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,…

Goma Under Siege: A Humanitarian and Health Catastrophe

VIEWPOINT PDF published 18 May 2025 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…