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EDITORIAL Health Rights and the Urgency of the Climate Crisis
Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 75-59 | PDF
Carmel Williams and Gillian MacNaughton
This special section on health rights and the urgency of the climate crisis could not be more timely. The world came together in Glasgow at the COP26…
Human Rights Must Guide a Pandemic Treaty
Timothy Fish Hodgson, Roojin Habibi, Benjamin Mason Meier, Sharifah Sekalala, Ian Seiderman, Tomaso Falchetta, Thomas Schwarz, Letta Tayler, Sean Tait, Gerald Staberock, and Sara (Meg) Davis
The World Health Assembly (WHA) will be…
A Healthy Environment Becomes a Human Right
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on states to take bold actions to give prompt and real effect to the right to a healthy environment, following a UN Human Rights Council’s landmark decision to recognise a clean,…
Johnson & Johnson, Vaccine Apartheid, and Human Rights
A. Kayum Ahmed, Achal Prabhala, Julia Greenberg, Ames Dhai, and Usuf Chikte
Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) decision to export COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in South Africa and India to Europe, ahead of supplying both countries or their respective…
Letter to the Editor: The Nicaragua Example
Lori Hanson
In Lies, Damned Lies, and “Official Statistics” authors Maria Gargiulo and Megan Price offer an important reminder of the inherent difficulty and potential danger in collecting data and providing information to the public during a…
Discrimination as WeChat deletes LGBTQIA+ accounts in China
Geeta Moni
Tencent’s WeChat social media network has blocked dozens of LGBTQIA+ university student profiles, saying that some had broken internet information guidelines, prompting worries of a crackdown on gay content online. The…
Ghosting Palestine: Hiding Health and Human Rights Violations
Alice Rothchild
Journals in the medical, social, and political sciences have begun to highlight an appreciation of structural racism, and the personal and public health costs of bigotry and chronic stress. For oppressed populations, understanding…
Respectful Care for Women and Newborns in Crisis Settings: A Human Right
By Caroline Kinsella
Maternal and newborn deaths must not be accepted as inevitable consequences of an armed conflict, natural disaster, or disease outbreak. This World Refugee Day, it is crucial that we listen to the displaced women and girls around…
Reshaping Global Health Law in the Wake of COVID-19 to Uphold Human Rights
Roojin Habibi, Tim Fish Hodgson, Benjamin Mason Meier, Ian Seiderman, and Steven Hoffman
The COVID-19 pandemic unequivocally reveals that human rights, the rule of law, democratic institutions and global solidarity are essential to effective public…
Advancing Women’s and Children’s Health: The Value of the Framework Convention on Global Health
Arachu Castro, Eric A. Friedman, Luiz Galvao, Martin Hevia, and Helia Molina
Historically, women in most parts of the world have been subject to deep discrimination which also harms children’s health in multiple ways. In this blog we argue that the…