Archive: May 2025

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 SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 125-128, PDF Published 13 May 2025 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…

PERSPECTIVE Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 13-17  PDF 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…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 113-115, PDF Published 11 May 2025 Fiona Bloomer, Suzie Heaney, and Claire Lougarre  Authoritarian populist governments around the globe are attacking reproductive rights as part of political…

Week ending 3 May 2025 Authoritarians and corporate greed create a global crisis Amnesty International’s annual report The State of the World’s Human Rights claims the Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful…

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 critical part of those demands is manifest…