Archive: Apr 2026

News to 24 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Humanity under attack from global anti-rights movements Amnesty International is calling on states to reject the backslide on human rights identified in its latest annual report, The…

News to 17 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now WHO convenes first global forum of leading institutions The first Global Forum of Collaborating Centres brought together over 800 institutions from 80 countries to discuss global…

Michelle Wazan, Tatyana Sleiman, Dima El Hajj, and Ramzi Haddad Abstract In Lebanon, the criminalization of drug use and the misapplication of ministerial directives have led hospitals to report overdose cases to law enforcement, deterring people…

VIEWPOINT, 16 April 2026 Mira Younes, Samirah Jarrar, Sahar Saeidnia, Malak Makki, and Nizar Hariri On March 13, 2026, amid Israeli preparations for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, an airstrike killed two paramedics at a health facility in…

News to 10 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Human Rights health groups demand an end to all fighting Physicians for Human Rights, Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear…

VIEWPOINT 15 April 2026 Felipe Agudelo-Hernández and Javier Díaz-Amaya When a conflict-affected adolescent appears before a juvenile judge in Colombia, the hearing often comes at the end of a much longer trajectory of harm. Many adolescents…

VIEWPOINT 9 April 2026 Richard Pearshouse Air pollution rarely appears on death certificates. With a notable exception from a London coroner’s report following the death of a nine-year-old girl in 2013, individual deaths are not typically…

News to 3 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now World Health Day: Stand with science on 7 April World Health Day 2026, 7 April, calls on people everywhere to stand with science. Under the theme “Together for health. Stand with…

Tonia Frame, Fred Nunes, and Dana Repka In Grenada, as across much of the English‑speaking Caribbean, many adolescents begin navigating sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs well before adulthood, often in contexts shaped by stigma and limited…

Kyle Knight and Alex Müller The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced last week that they are going to genetically sex test all women athletes. The newly announced policy follows a secret process the IOC initiated last year, ostensibly to…