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Week ending 7 September 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Harvard wins legal victory in Trump’s power battle Harvard University (co-publisher of Health and Human Rights) has won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the…

Week ending 31 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Famine confirmed in Gaza An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis has confirmed that Gaza is experiencing a famine, with conditions projected to spread…

Week ending 23 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Physical punishment harms children’s health and development The World Health Organization has found that physical punishment remains ‘alarmingly widespread and causes…

Week ending 16 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now US public health experts fight Trump administration disinformation Defend Public Health, an organization of public health professionals and advocates in the United States,…

Week ending 9 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN accuses Trump administration of leaving the poorest to die… In a letter to the US government, UN experts Olivier De Schutter and Mihael Fakhri claim the abrupt suspension of…

Week ending 2 August 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Cuts feared to Gender, Equity and Rights Dept in WHO Academics and activists around the world have joined in a letter writing campaign to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,…

Week ending 25 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Nightmare in Gaza continues… The unending humanitarian crisis in Gaza has lead UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk to describe the misery perpetuated by Israeli displacement orders…

Week ending 19 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now US Senate passes $8 billion in foreign aid cuts… The US Senate passed a bill that will cancel about $8 billion that had been promised for foreign assistance programs. The bill…

Week ending 12 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN liquidity crisis hits human rights activities In response to High Commissioner Volker Türk’s announcement that the international aid funding crisis has placed the UN in a…

Week ending 5 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Financing for development outcomes include health… UNAIDS Director Winnie Byanyima has called the Seville Platform for Action a ‘remarkable leap forward’. This outcome document of…