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Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache, and Teresa Sordé Martí Wherever they live, whether in low- or high-income regions, Roma populations experience significantly greater difficulty accessing health rights than the majority population.  A…

Khadija Sharife When it comes to health, data matter: it can tell us when, where, and how global health is affected, for better or worse. But not only is some important data hard to access, it is rarely analyzed in a way that can truly provide us with…

Sara L.M. Davis Now that members of the UN have adopted the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the next question is: how to pay for it all? The answers raise questions about aid eligibility, transparency and accountability. For SDG 3…

Image Credit: James Gathany/CDC By Beatriz Galli and Christine Ricardo Like other mosquito-borne viruses, Zika thrives in areas with substandard sanitation and infrastructure—which are directly linked to state failures to ensure the basic human…

By Neha Acharya and Benjamin Mason Meier Where human rights are central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accountability frameworks are necessary to assure the progressive realization of the human right to health. In creating accountability…

Alison Hosie National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are independent bodies set up with a mandate to promote and protect and human rights in their country. There are over 100 of these institutions in the world and each acts as a bridge between…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Audrey R. Chapman Writing in 2014, Alicia Ely Yamin and Vanessa Boulanger showed how the global approach to women’s sexual and reproductive health was skewed by the selection of targets and indicators chosen to measure…

By Ciara O’Connell The judicialization of the right to health has been lauded and critiqued as both a positive and negative in bringing justice to health care. Litigating the Right to Health in Africa*, a volume edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, begins…

Fran Quigley Full disclosure: initially, I was not very excited about the announcement of the convening of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. Every human rights advocate has learned to approach with…

Nicholas Caivano Global markets channel food—with ruthless efficiency—to the highest bidder, rather than to those who are most in need.1 While multinationals exercise unprecedented influence over the world’s food systems, there are few effective…