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Universal Health Care: A Moral Obligation?

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…

UN study: India Has World's Worst Gender Disparity in Child Mortality

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…

Upcoming Event: Course on Health Rights Litigation

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…

Why the Global Fund Matters

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…

Book Brief: Science in the Service of Human Rights

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…

Ending violence against women: A public health imperative

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…

Book Brief: A Plague of Prisons

Ernest Drucker The New Press, September 2011 ISBN 978-1-59558-497-7 240 pages $26.95 Reviwed by HHR editorial assistant Judith Fitzpatrick Ernest Drucker’s A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America analyzes a pressing social…