Archive: 2025

STUDENT ESSAY Oshokha Caleb Ilegogie Abstract In this essay, I explore the link between energy access, especially electricity, and human rights, particularly the right to health in Nigeria. Despite its plentiful natural resources, including…

Week ending 8 November 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Global health, human rights, and car crashes At this week’s American Public Health Association annual meeting, Health and Human Rights Editor in Chief Joseph Amon drew…

Prisca Tarimo, Gillian MacNaughton, Tarek Meguid, and Courtenay Sprague Abstract Tanzania is among the countries with high rates of maternal mortality. In 1976, Tanzania ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,…

Week ending 1 November 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now RSF attack hospitals and health workers in Sudan The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as…

Luciano Magaldi Sardella and Matteo Mantuano The relationship between built environment and population health has received substantial scholarly attention, yet the role of public art as health infrastructure remains curiously underexamined in…

Speech to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2025 Joseph J. Amon My first thought when invited to speak at this American Public Health Association annual conference about current challenges in global health was of a…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT, Published 4 November 2025 Tenesha Myrie The fight for equal citizenship On July 29, 2025, the Commonwealth Caribbean recorded its seventh court victory in constitutional challenges to laws criminalising consensual…

Shambhavi Singh and Rudra Singh Krishna The Supreme Court of India has re-anchored the right to health within the constitutional framework of custodial dignity, holding that incarceration curtails liberty, not humanity. In its July 2025 decision of L.…

Week ending 25 October 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now The practice of medicine is not a crime The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, called for an end to widespread attacks against healthcare workers…

Week ending 18 October 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Financial support urged for UN Speaking at the UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk called on governments to support the UN and its Human Rights…