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Dainius Pūras In my final report as Special Rapporteur on the right to health, presented to the UN General Assembly this week, I stress that the most effective “vaccine” for global health challenges has been, and will always be, the full realization…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 329 – 332 PDF Audrey Chapman The COVID-19 epidemic has shone a bright light on structural racism in US society and on the inadequacies of a health care system that has significantly disadvantaged racial and…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 313 – 316 PDF Sara Wallach, Alex Garner, Sean Howell, Tyler Adamson, Stefan Baral, and Chris Beyrer As of August 12, 2020, there are over 20 million confirmed cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…

Viewpoints Denying Pediatric Gender‑Affirming Health Care Is a Human Rights Violation, Swarupa Deb, 17 February 2026 Disaster Epidemiology: Human Rights and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Siege of Minneapolis, Joseph J. Amon, 28…

Lisa Forman As a graduate student in the early 2000s coming to grips with the meaning and interpretation of the right to health, few publications had as great an impact on me as the Harvard Law School and Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center’s 1993…

Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 253 – 265 PDF Richard Long, Courtney Heffernan,* Melissa Cardinal-Grant, Amber Lynn, Lori Sparling, Dorilda Piche, Mara Nokohoo, and Diane Janvier Abstract The Two Row Wampum belt is a symbolic record of the…

Citizens in Singapore benefit from government funded health care, but migrant workers often do not (image credit John Siegel) CHAN Chee Khoon In recent years, WHO Member States have been urged to speed up reforms to ensure that all persons can have…

Andrea Boggio, Matteo Zignol, Ernesto Jaramillo, Paul Nunn, Geneviève Pinet, and Mario Raviglione Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract Tuberculosis, in all its forms, poses a serious, demonstrable threat to the health…

Tim Anderson Health and Human Rights 11/1 Published June 2009 Abstract The common assertion that Cuba’s achievements in HIV/AIDS control have come at a cost in human rights is reinforced by US hostility toward its small neighbor.…