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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,…

Goma Under Siege: A Humanitarian and Health Catastrophe

VIEWPOINT PDF published 18 May 2025 Patrick Ndeba, Faraan O. Rahim, Meriem Boukaabar, Mohamed Shilleh, Omar Shilleh, Alaa Shilleh, and Dang Nguyen On January 27, 2025, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic…

Maintaining the Right to Health: A Democratic Process in Taiwan

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 125-128, PDF Published 13 May 2025 Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee Taiwan, with a population of 23.56 million, implemented a nationwide single-payer health care system in 1995—the National Health…

Let All Children Eat

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 133-136, PDF Published 2 March 2025 Thomas Pogge The billionaires fight a two-front war. Within the United States, they fight to convert the country into an enduring plutocracy in which their…

From Dependency to Sovereignty

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 137-140, PDF Published 26 February 2025 Beatrice Were and Vanessa Okumu-McCarron Uganda has been a pioneer in combating HIV, spearheading a multi-sectoral response coordinated by the Uganda AIDS…