Archive: 2026

VIEWPOINT Isabella Frigerio, Mohamed Abu Hilal, Andrew Gumbs, Umberto Cillo, Gaya Spolverato, and Alessandro Vitale On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire in Gaza was greeted as a promise that the work of rebuilding could finally begin. Nine months…

News to 25 September 2026 UN human rights funding crisis UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned this week that severe funding cuts are causing the entire human rights treaty body mechanism to face collapse. The budget crunch has…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Martin Jelsma Introduction For thousands of years, coca has been a cornerstone of the cultural, spiritual, and medicinal traditions of Indigenous Peoples in the…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Ann Fordham Interviews Laura Gil Laura Gabriela Gil Savastano is an internationalist, political scientist, and journalist. She served as Colombia’s vice minister for…

News to 28 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Meta settles in US child harm lawsuit Meta agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit…

News to 21 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now ICE awards itself a superior grade Despite 23 people having died in its US detention centers so far this year—the highest rate in over 20 years—the Immigration and Customs…

Paper in Press, 27 August 2026 Maria Teresa Moreira, Andreia Lima, Christina César Praça Brasil, Vânia Peixoto, and Rita Alegria Abstract Autistic people experience systematic exclusion within health care systems organized around neurotypical…

VIEWPOINT Sebastian León-Giraldo, Juli Salamanca, and Lina Quevedo Introduction The fight over gender is also a fight over data. Anti-gender politics operate through laws, speeches, and restrictions on care.[1] But they also reach census…

News to 14 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Public health research for accountability in Gaza Public health researchers who have been documenting Israeli actions against the health system in Gaza since October 2023, write…

News to 7 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now AIDS 2026: Decades of progress threatened Throughout last week’s AIDS 2026 conference there was an inescapable theme of continuing, and escalating, threats facing key…