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By Jay Lemery, MD The Council on Foreign Relations has just released an educational reference on the history and current state of human rights protection worldwide. Part of the Global Governance Monitor series, the interactive online guide tracks the…

UNICEF released The State of the World’s Children 2012 last week, reporting on the serious risks children and pregnant women face in our rapidly urbanizing world. While cities historically offer greater access to infrastructure like schools, clinics, and…

John Tobin Oxford University Press, 2012 ISBN 978-0199603299 330 pages $140 Tobin offers readers a thorough and necessary discussion of the current meanings and legal obligations that stem from the global responsibility to “respect, protect, and fulfill”…

By Ronald Pies, MD As a psychiatric physician for nearly thirty years, I am always surprised when I hear politicians claim that the U.S. health care system is “the best in the world.” To be sure, we are among the most advanced nations when it comes to…

A new UN study reveals that a girl aged 1-5 is 75% more likely to die than a boy in India, marking the world’s most extreme gender disparity concerning child mortality. Infant and child mortality has been on the decline in recent years, with a large…

The Health Rights of Women and Children Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, is pleased to announce application and scholarship information for the Course on Health Rights Litigation. This one-week intensive course…

In a February 1 New York Times op-ed, Partners in Health co-founder and Health and Human Rights editor-in-chief Paul Farmer outlines the importance of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Read the op-ed here. Photo: By DFID – UK…

Richard Pierre Claude University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 (paperback 2011) ISBN 978-0-8122-2192-3 280 pages $24.95 In Science in the Service of Human Rights, Richard Pierre Claude examines the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between scientific…

By Rob Yates Virtually all countries are trying to achieve universal health coverage, meaning that their populations use appropriate levels of care without experiencing financial hardship. Governments are likely to come under increasing pressure to…

By Amanda Klasing Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch Sixteen-year-old Florence was an orphan doing domestic work when the January 2010 earthquake hit Haiti. She moved with the family she worked for to a displacement camp, where her…