UK Public Health Registrars Write Open Letter Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza
UK health registrars call on UK govt to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to the bombardment of people with nowhere to escape to.
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Health Faculty Call for Ceasefire in Gaza and Centering Palestine in the Classroom
Over 100 US medical and health faculty write an open letter to President Biden calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to attacks on hospitals.
Health and Human Rights Journal Announces Amon as Editor-in-Chief
Harvard University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, co-publishers of the Health and Human Rights Journal, have announced the appointment of Drexel Professor…
UK AI Safety Summit will Impact Global Health: Time to Strengthen Rights-Based AI Governance
The forthcoming high-level UK AI Safety Summit focuses on existential threats caused by the rapid growth and proliferation of AI systems, including to health
UK Cost-of-Living Crisis and Food Banks: A Right to Health Critique
Sharifah Sekalala, Kevin Hearty, and Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa
Interspersed between headlines of multiple crises in the United Kingdom such as leaving the European Union, COVID-19, successive changes of government, the war in Ukraine, and public sector…
UN Expert Addresses Privacy and Health Rights Concerns in Digital Technology
Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion and Timothy Wafula
Digital technology and its benefits and risks to the right to health are the focus of the latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the Special…
Women’s Health Rights can Guide International Climate Litigation: KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland before the European Court of Human Rights
Hannah van Kolfschooten and Angela Hefti
All over the world, individuals are taking governments to court for their role in climate change, or rather, their “climate inaction”. The 2022 Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation Policy Report shows…
It Is Time to Abolish the Death Penalty for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Gautam Gulati and Brendan D. Kelly
On 5 October 2021, Ernest L. Johnson, a 61-year-old man, was executed in Missouri, United States. Johnson’s crime was heinous: in 1994 he killed three people in a convenience store. No words can describe the…
Breakthrough on Loss and Damage Funding at COP27: A Need to Incorporate Human Rights Principles
A. Karim Ahmed
It is not entirely clear what finally broke the logjam on loss and damage funding at the COP27 meeting held in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (November 6-18, 2022).
Was it the threat made by European Union…
Power, Privacy, and the People at the AIDS 2022 Conference
Sara (Meg) Davis
The International AIDS Conference is a biennial litmus test for the global HIV response: a moment to celebrate progress in research and practice, forge new connections and reconnect with allies. Human rights has long been a central…