Archive: Aug 2025

Week ending 16 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now US public health experts fight Trump administration disinformation Defend Public Health, an organization of public health professionals and advocates in the United States,…

Week ending 9 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN accuses Trump administration of leaving the poorest to die… In a letter to the US government, UN experts Olivier De Schutter and Mihael Fakhri claim the abrupt suspension of…

Suhana Roy In July 2025, India’s Supreme Court made history. In a judgment that could reshape health rights jurisprudence, the Court declared that mental health is not just a matter of policy or welfare, it is a constitutional guarantee…

Week ending 2 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Cuts feared to Gender, Equity and Rights Dept in WHO Academics and activists around the world have joined in a letter writing campaign to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Patrick Tang On September 5, 2023, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal delivered a landmark victory for LGBTQ rights in the semi-autonomous city state. In Sham Tsz Kit v. Secretary for Justice, the de facto supreme court…

Week ending 25 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Nightmare in Gaza continues… The unending humanitarian crisis in Gaza has lead UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk to describe the misery perpetuated by Israeli displacement orders…