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During a June 1 health conference held in Norway, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged their countries’ aid  to a new initiative, “Saving Mothers, Giving Life,” which supports maternal health and aims…

Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations Surya Deva Routledge (January 2012) ISBN 9780415668217 296 pages $145 Surya Deva’s new book on the humanization of business sets out to address three crucial and timely questions: Why companies and…

Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN 9780521146777 350 pages $62 Benatar and Brock explore the obligations and challenges surrounding the improvement of global health in their new textbook, Global Health and Global…

Gunilla Backman, ed. Studentlitteratur, 2012 ISBN 9789144067803 368 pages $50 The Right to Health, edited by Gunilla Backman, expounds on the central theme that a functioning, accessible, and non-discriminatory health system is necessary for the…

Child protection network ECPAT International recently released a report stating that countries around the globe are falling far short of efforts necessary to stop child sex trafficking. ECPAT evaluated and rated 42 countries for their efforts in fighting…

By Rachel Kelley and Charlotte Greenbaum Reproductive health care funding has captured the American limelight in recent months. Whether responding to health care legislation or nonprofit philanthropies’ funding decisions, advocates across the country…

By Angela Duger Health and human rights professionals have long considered food and nutrition to be underlying determinants of health, but the focus has largely been on undernutrition. That focus is now changing. The World Health Organization (WHO)…

Jonathan Wolff W. W. Norton & Company, 2012 ISBN 978-0393063356 208 pages $23.95 In The Human Right to Health, Jonathan Wolff explores all angles of the philosophical dilemma at the heart of establishing a human right to health: “On the one hand, the…

Chinese authorities hold periodic sweeps to detain sex workers, drug users, and other ‘social undesirables’ en masse in advance of national holidays and major government conferences. Sex workers, including feminist activist Ye Haiyan (also known as…

Kony 2012, the much-discussed short film about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, has received more than 100 million views in one week, making it the most viral video of all time. The film, created by Jason Russell and released by American charity Invisible…