Archive: Jul 2025

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 released this week. PHRI’s health-centered legal analysis…

Week ending 19 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now US Senate passes $8 billion in foreign aid cuts… The US Senate passed a bill that will cancel about $8 billion that had been promised for foreign assistance programs. The bill…

Week ending 12 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN liquidity crisis hits human rights activities In response to High Commissioner Volker Türk’s announcement that the international aid funding crisis has placed the UN in a…

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 media posts and subsequently verified through…

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 invocation since the country’s democratization in 1987 and…

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 Action a ‘remarkable leap forward’. This outcome document of…