Archive: 2025

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…

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…

Week ending 21 June 2025 Civilian deaths in conflict surged in 2024 Civilian deaths in conflict surged by 40% last year, according to new data released by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) with already marginalised groups facing…

Kaori Kawaguchi and Moon Hwan Lee The auction of identity This month, a federal judge in Missouri may authorize the sale of one of the most sensitive genetic archives ever assembled. Through the bankruptcy process of 23andMe, corporate bidders have…

Neiloy R. Sircar, Safura Abdool Karim, Roojin Habibi, and Benjamin Mason Meier On May 20, 2025, the World Health Assembly adopted the Pandemic Agreement. Together, with the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), these twin…