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Archive: 2025

Health and Human Rights News

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…

Are Women’s Rights Human Rights Once and for All?

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…

Health and Human Rights News

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.…

A Forgotten War: Sudan’s Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis

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…

Health and Human Rights News

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…

DNA For Sale: The Human Rights Crisis in the 23andMe Bankruptcy

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…

Health and Human Rights News

Week ending 14 June 2025 Scientists sign up to Bethesda Declaration A letter to US NIH director Jay Bhattacharya signed by hundreds of NIH staffers has been supported by more than 22,000 other scientists, including multiple Nobel Laureates,…

A Doctor’s Resistance in Gaza: Academic Action

Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain and Bilal Irfan In January 2024, I (AA) received the headless body of my cousin, Islam Abo Riala, while I was on duty at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hosopital. He was a volunteer ambulance officer with the Palestinian Red Crescent…