Viewpoints

VIEWPOINT Joseph J. Amon  On September 2, 2025, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “politicized science had corroded” the purpose of the Centers for Disease…

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…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Patrick Tang On September 5, 2023, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal delivered a landmark victory for LGBTQ rights in the semi-autonomous city state. In Sham Tsz Kit v. Secretary for Justice, the de facto supreme court…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT Yeon Jung Yu, Eojin Yi, Young Su Park, Martin McKee, and Jiho Cha On December 3, 2024, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in South Korea—the first such invocation since the country’s democratization in 1987 and…

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…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 105-107, PDF Published 10 June 2025 Fernande Álvarez-Molina, Magda Meneses, Andrés Camilo Restrepo Mora, Javier Guerrero, and Catalina González-Uribe Colombia is witnessing a period of significant…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 117-120, PDF Published 8 June 2025 Stuart Ssebibubbu, Denis Kibira, and Adriano Lubanga Introduction The right to health, enshrined in international human rights frameworks, remains elusive…

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…

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…

 FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 91-94, PDF Published 26 May 2025 Tlaleng Mofokeng The world is experiencing unprecedented attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) that threaten decades of progress.[1] From…