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
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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
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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…
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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
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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…
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT 7 July 2025
Flavia Bustreo, Revati Phalkey, Rajat Khosla, and Kate Gilmore
It has been 30 years since the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing platformed a remarkable consensus among United Nations…
Week ending 28 June 2025
UN Expert calls health care workers defenders of the right to health…
In her fifth report to the Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur Tlaleng Mofokeng focuses on health workers as the protectors of the right to health.…
Ketan Tamirisa, Lara Kendall, Faraan O. Rahim, Paul Kim, Esraa Usman Eltayeb, and Nhial T. Tutlam
On January 24, 2025, immediate stop-work orders from the Trump administration halted critical aid operations in Sudan, disrupting life-saving treatment…