Week ending 7 June 2025
Scientists sign up to fight censorship
Over 6000 scientists have signed an “Open letter in support of science” in protest against President Trump’s 23 May executive order which called for political appointees to…
Week ending 24 May 2025
World leaders commit extra funding to WHO…
The 78th World Health Assembly, convening this week under the theme “One World for Health”, saw member states voting to increase their dues by 20% thereby helping to plug…
Week ending 11 May 2025
Editorial links free speech, health rights, and genocide
Health and Human Rights editor-in-chief Joseph Amon explains the links between the Trump administration’s attack on universities-“the professors are the enemy” says…
Wendy Chavkin, Laurel Swerdlow, and Jocelyn Fifield
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Since abortion laws were liberalized in Western Europe, conscientious objection (CO) to abortion has become increasingly contentious. We investigated the efficacy and acceptability…
Everaldo Lamprea and Johnattan García
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This paper explores Colombia’s road toward universal health care coverage. Using a policy-based approach, we show how, in Colombia, the legal expansion of health coverage is not sufficient and requires…
Sarah Mares
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This paper describes secondary analysis of previously unreported data collected during the 2014 Australian Human Rights Commission Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. The aim was to examine the mental health of…
Thomas Nicholson, Catherine Admay, Aaron Shakow, and Salmaan Keshavjee
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The human rights arguments that underpinned the fight against HIV over the last three decades were poised, but ultimately failed, to provide a similar foundation…