Archive: 2025

09 April 2025 Wazida Rahman and Manvitha Bangalore Shekar LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers persistently confront profound challenges due to systemic legal disparities between countries, ranging from partial recognition of their identities and…

Week ending 21 March 2025 Philippines’ Duterte faces crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court Former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested and extradited on 11 March following the ICC’s warrant and…

Week ending 7 March 2025 International Women’s Day 2025: For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment As the world celebrates 30 years of achievement on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, gender discrimination…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 129-131, PDF Published 17 March 2025 Martha F. Davis In 2014, in the midst of the financial crisis in the US city of Detroit, the city began systematically shutting off water service to tens of…

VIEWPOINT PDF published 11 March 2025 Adriana Petryna International humanitarian law (IHL) provides a framework to protect health workers and health facilities from violent attacks in conflict zones, which are on the rise and well documented.[1]…

Week ending 28 February 2025 Case study on rights-based approach to health in Kenya wins inaugural HHR Best Paper prize (2024) HHR is delighted to award its inaugural celebration of excellent research and writing to Esther Kamau and Gillian…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 87-90, PDF Published 2 March 2025 Moses Mulumba, Jessica Oga, Juliana Nantaba, and Ana Lorena Ruano The recent shifts in global health policy, particularly the United States’ sudden retreat from…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 133-136, PDF Published 2 March 2025 Thomas Pogge The billionaires fight a two-front war. Within the United States, they fight to convert the country into an enduring plutocracy in which their…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 137-140, PDF Published 26 February 2025 Beatrice Were and Vanessa Okumu-McCarron Uganda has been a pioneer in combating HIV, spearheading a multi-sectoral response coordinated by the Uganda AIDS…

19 February 2025 Varun Raj Wahane and Azma Khan  The rights to health, nutrition, and shelter of some Indigenous tribes in the Indian controlled territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are being threatened by the Indian government’s…