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Shambhavi Singh The Supreme Court of India has re-anchored the right to health within the constitutional framework of custodial dignity, holding that incarceration curtails liberty, not humanity. In its July 2025 decision of L. Muruganantham v. State…

Anubhuti Raje When the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) began mining in 1967, uranium was framed as a national security necessity. Environmental and health safeguards were absent; baseline studies were never conducted. For the…

Shambhavi Singh In trauma medicine, the “golden hour” is the first 60 minutes after a serious injury—the period when rapid intervention can be the difference between life and death. Countries have built emergency systems around this principle: in the…

Shambhavi Singh In August 2024, the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark ruling about silicosis (a preventable but incurable lung disease caused by silica dust exposure) finding failure to prevent the disease to be a violation of the…

Suhana Roy In July 2025, India’s Supreme Court made history. In a judgment that could reshape health rights jurisprudence, the Court declared that mental health is not just a matter of policy or welfare, it is a constitutional guarantee…

Fiona Campbell Israel’s military campaign is deliberately and systematically dismantling Gaza’s health and life-sustaining systems, says Physicians for Human Rights Israel, in a position paper released this week. PHRI’s health-centered legal analysis…

Ekrema Shehab and Bilal Hamamra In Gaza, the humanitarian crisis has led to the emergence of a desperate trade in pregnant women’s urine. This practice, which we first learned about through social media posts and subsequently verified through…

Ketan Tamirisa, Lara Kendall, Faraan O. Rahim, Paul Kim, Esraa Usman Eltayeb, and Nhial T. Tutlam On January 24, 2025, immediate stop-work orders from the Trump administration halted critical aid operations in Sudan, disrupting life-saving treatment…

Kaori Kawaguchi and Moon Hwan Lee The auction of identity This month, a federal judge in Missouri may authorize the sale of one of the most sensitive genetic archives ever assembled. Through the bankruptcy process of 23andMe, corporate bidders have…

Neiloy R. Sircar, Safura Abdool Karim, Roojin Habibi, and Benjamin Mason Meier On May 20, 2025, the World Health Assembly adopted the Pandemic Agreement. Together, with the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), these twin…