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Health technology could make healthcare more accessible, but there are regulatory voids which threaten health rights.

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is confronted with a different type of outbreak—armed conflict wreak havoc on all facets of health.

UK health registrars call on UK govt to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to the bombardment of people with nowhere to escape to.

Over 100 US medical and health faculty write an open letter to President Biden calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to attacks on hospitals.

Harvard University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, co-publishers of the Health and Human Rights Journal, have announced the appointment of Drexel Professor…

The forthcoming high-level UK AI Safety Summit focuses on existential threats caused by the rapid growth and proliferation of AI systems, including to health

Sharifah Sekalala, Kevin Hearty, and Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa Interspersed between headlines of multiple crises in the United Kingdom such as leaving the European Union, COVID-19, successive changes of government, the war in Ukraine, and public sector…

Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion and Timothy Wafula Digital technology and its benefits and risks to the right to health are the focus of the latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the Special…

Hannah van Kolfschooten and Angela Hefti All over the world, individuals are taking governments to court for their role in climate change, or rather, their “climate inaction”. The 2022 Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation Policy Report shows…

Gautam Gulati and Brendan D. Kelly   On 5 October 2021, Ernest L. Johnson, a 61-year-old man, was executed in Missouri, United States. Johnson’s crime was heinous: in 1994 he killed three people in a convenience store. No words can describe the…