Archive: 2025

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 101-104, PDF Published 2 June 2025 Laura Dragnic Tohá, Paulina Macías Ortega, and Guillermina Pappier Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have played a transformative role in expanding the…

Week ending 24 May 2025 World leaders commit extra funding to WHO… The 78th World Health Assembly, convening this week under the theme “One World for Health”, saw member states voting to increase their dues by 20% thereby helping to plug…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 109-111, PDF Published 29 May 2025 Jacqueline Pitanguy Health and human rights are part of a political battlefield in which interpretations of religion, culture, science, and judicial systems are…

 FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 91-94, PDF Published 26 May 2025 Tlaleng Mofokeng The world is experiencing unprecedented attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) that threaten decades of progress.[1] From…

Week ending 17 May 2025 WHO agrees famine in Gaza is imminent  Israel’s aid blockade to Gaza has now persisted for 80 days, leaving the Gaza Strip without food, fuel, medical supplies, and other goods indispensable for human survival. The…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 121-124, PDF Published 20 May 2025 Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin On April 1, 2025, Forbes published a list of a record 3,028 billionaires worldwide, including 902 in the United States,…

VIEWPOINT PDF published 18 May 2025 Patrick Ndeba, Faraan O. Rahim, Meriem Boukaabar, Mohamed Shilleh, Omar Shilleh, Alaa Shilleh, and Dang Nguyen On January 27, 2025, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic…

Week ending 11 May 2025 Editorial links free speech, health rights, and genocide Health and Human Rights editor-in-chief Joseph Amon explains the links between the Trump administration’s attack on universities-“the professors are the enemy” says…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 125-128, PDF Published 13 May 2025 Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee Taiwan, with a population of 23.56 million, implemented a nationwide single-payer health care system in 1995—the National Health…

PERSPECTIVE Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 13-17  PDF John C. Messinger and Leo Beletsky Introduction The recent confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has raised numerous concerns…