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Gender Abuses Omitted in the 2024 US Human Rights Reports

VIEWPOINT, 10 September 2025 Winona Xu Introduction: A narrowed human rights lens The United States State Department has reported annually on the state of human rights around the world since Congress mandated it to in the 1970s. But this year’s…

Are Women’s Rights Human Rights Once and for All?

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT 7 July 2025 Flavia Bustreo, Revati Phalkey, Rajat Khosla, and Kate Gilmore It has been 30 years since the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing platformed a remarkable consensus among United Nations…

Diverse Families Under Threat: Reproductive Conservatism

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 101-104, PDF Published 2 June 2025 Laura Dragnic Tohá, Paulina Macías Ortega, and Guillermina Pappier Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have played a transformative role in expanding the…

Health and Human Rights: Territories in Dispute

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 109-111, PDF Published 29 May 2025 Jacqueline Pitanguy Health and human rights are part of a political battlefield in which interpretations of religion, culture, science, and judicial systems are…

A Tax on the World’s Ultra-Rich to Fight Hunger and Disease

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 121-124, PDF Published 20 May 2025 Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin On April 1, 2025, Forbes published a list of a record 3,028 billionaires worldwide, including 902 in the United States,…