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By Alison Blaiklock Health and humanitarian workers in Australia’s immigration detention centers now face imprisonment under Australia’s Border Force Act for talking about human rights abuses that they observe in detention centers. The Act,…

By Antonia Chan  The weapons industry is proverbially up in arms over Pope Francis’s recent declaration that weapons manufacturers—and their investors —are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian. At a rally in Turin, Italy, he noted that…

Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia Siân M. Griffiths, Jin Ling Tang, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Editors Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014 ISBN 978-0-4156-4382-5 786 pages $225 By Kai Chen The Routledge Handbook of Global…

By Antonia Chan Public health officials from California’s San Diego and Imperial counties have signed a deal with the Mexican state of Baja California, as well as the nonprofits International Community Foundation and Puentes de Esperanza Contra…

By Antonia Chan and Jessica Moore Kaplan  Pope Francis issued a call on Thursday for politicians, corporations, and individuals to confront climate change and environmental exploitation, setting the stage for science and religion to work together…

By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson In an article published in the May 21 edition of The London Review of Books, Health and Human Rights Journal editor-in-chief, Paul Farmer, illuminates the…

By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson The Post-2015 Development Agenda is under way and while many of the new Sustainable Development Goals will likely remain the same as for the MDGs, there is a need for a more…

The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide Colleen M. Flood and Aeyal Gross Cambridge University Press, 2014 ISBN 9781107038301 492 pages $120 By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson Published April 7,…

By Katrina Geddes When I first meet Northeastern University law professor Brook Baker, it’s a bitterly cold day in Boston. It’s a relief to escape into the warmth of Baker’s office, tucked away inside Northeastern’s Cargill Hall, where I am to meet…

By Theresa Cheng The global health community has been debating when we will reach the end of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 1 As of 2012, 96% of governments had stepped up to the challenges of managing the epidemic within their own borders by redoubling…