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Donna J. Perry, Christian Guillermet Fernández, and David Fernández Puyana On 19 December 2016, the Declaration on the Right to Peace was ratified by the plenary of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in a majority vote by its Member States (Resolution…

Citta Widagdo Health and human rights advocates in Indonesia are alarmed at the public health and human rights implications of a proposed legislative change to limit the distribution of contraceptive supplies, and control the provision of information…

Jonas Bagas Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte repeatedly declares that the government is winning the ‘war on drugs’. Despite criticism from home and abroad, he insists that the bloody war is delivering results: ‘overall crime rate is down’; ‘close…

Fran Quigley In the interview that accompanied President-elect Donald Trump’s Time magazine Person of the Year story, he said, “I’m going to bring down drug prices. I don’t like what has happened with drug prices.” If you don’t find yourself…

Magda Matache, Guest Editor: Romani Global Diaspora: Implementation of the Right to Health, in Health and Human Rights, December 2017 The Health and Human Rights Journal is calling for papers for a special section on Romani Global Diaspora:…

Fran Quigley The long list of complaints about the current system of medicine access and pharmacological research is well-known and well-documented, including in the Health and Human Rights Journal. Those complaints start with patients facing…

By Sharifah Sekalala They say, ‘that what gets measured gets done!’1 On 26 August 2016 all 54 African leaders agreed to create a scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health. This scorecard will collate and publish data from all African countries on…

David Line and Allen Line This summer has intensified the discussion in the United States about “Black Lives Matter”. This motto and movement became more prominent after the shooting of a Black man in Ferguson, Missouri, in July…

By Fran Quigley The United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines has issued its widely anticipated report. Previously in this space, I had expressed optimism about the likely substance of the panel’s likely findings. I…

Donna Perry, Christian Guillermet Fernández, and David Fernández Puyana The Declaration on the Right to Peace was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016. Ambassador Christian Guillermet of Costa Rica had led the three years of work in…