Archive: 2025

Week ending 26 April 2025 Harvard sues Trump administration Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on the grounds the freeze on research funding is unconstitutional and unlawful. It calls on the court to restore…

Week ending 18 April 2025 Health services disrupted globally The World Health Organization is warning health service disruptions are occurring in 70% of its surveyed countries as a result of the sudden suspension or reduction in foreign aid. It…

21 April 2025 Isabella Long Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) aided in 2% (74,926) of births in the United States in 2018, but in Puerto Rico (a territory of the United States) it assisted in only 0.4% (84) of births. At the same time,…

20 April 2025 Parth Chhapolia In an era when the climate crisis poses existential challenges, the Indian Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in M.K. Ranjitsinh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. (2024) signifies a pivotal constitutional…

Week ending 11 April 2025 Global healthcare funding insufficient to fulfil rights Global public funding for healthcare is insufficient for nations to fulfil their right to health obligations, according to a Human Rights Watch report analysing…

Week ending 7 April 2025 World Health Day, 7 April Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures: today starts a year focusing on maternal and newborn health. The World Health Organization is indeed hopeful this focus will urge governments to ramp up…

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…