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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…

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…

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…

2 February 2025 Dana Repka The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls has released a guiding document on key considerations for conscientious objection to abortion, explicitly recommending that…

Benjamin Mason Meier, Neha Saggi, and Padmini Murthy The 2024 US election campaign offered divergent approaches to US leadership in global health, with former President Trump campaigning on a platform that would undermine human rights, reject public…

The ECtHR has upheld France’s law criminalizing the purchase of sexual services, even between consenting adults, which threatens sex workers’ rights across Europe.

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia the HIV epidemic is growing rapidly driven by injecting drug use and unprotected sex. In every other region it has slowed and mortality has decreased.

Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, participated in a panel focusing on decriminalizing sex work for effective HIV response.

AIDS conferences have a long history of activism and global politics. This year the US election, the need to replenish the Global Fund, and funding for other pressing global problems, feature.