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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…

By Rob Yates Virtually all countries are trying to achieve universal health coverage, meaning that their populations use appropriate levels of care without experiencing financial hardship. Governments are likely to come under increasing pressure to…

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…

By Evan Lieberman Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University http://evanlieberman.org/ People in South Africa overwhelmingly believe that addressing HIV/AIDS is firstly the responsibility of national government, in contrast with…

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…

By Karyn Kaplan Policy and Development Director, Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group, Bangkok This post is excerpted from a plenary speech given at the International Conference on AIDS in Asia/Pacific (ICAAP), Busan, South Korea, August 27, 2011 Here in…

IRIN, the humanitarian news service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, cites a preliminary Nepal Demographic Health Survey finding that gender discrimination and neglect are fueling malnutrition in the isolated mid-western…

Children in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia suffer from chronic zinc deficiency, says Dr. Fernando Sempértegui, leader of several landmark studies on the effects of zinc deficiency. He tells IPS that the deficiency “is related to chronic infections like…

One hundred and forty million women around the world are presently living with the effects of female genital mutilation, a practice that has proven difficult to abolish. In Senegal, however, intervention strategies are in place that are proving…

In an August 4 article, Trustlaw’s Lisa Anderson exposes the “silent health emergency” faced by child brides around the globe. According to Plan UK, a children’s rights organization, the marriage of a girl under 18 occurs every three seconds. This means…