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Week ending 19 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now US Senate passes $8 billion in foreign aid cuts… The US Senate passed a bill that will cancel about $8 billion that had been promised for foreign assistance programs. The bill…

Week ending 12 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN liquidity crisis hits human rights activities In response to High Commissioner Volker Türk’s announcement that the international aid funding crisis has placed the UN in a…

Week ending 5 July 2025 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Financing for development outcomes include health… UNAIDS Director Winnie Byanyima has called the Seville Platform for Action a ‘remarkable leap forward’. This outcome document of…

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…

Neiloy R. Sircar, Safura Abdool Karim, Roojin Habibi, and Benjamin Mason Meier On May 20, 2025, the World Health Assembly adopted the Pandemic Agreement. Together, with the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), these twin…

Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 73-82  PDF STUDENT ESSAY Aubrienne Krysiewicz-Bell Abstract In today’s world of stark inequalities, medical education is increasingly recognizing the importance of exposing future physicians to topics such as health…

Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 27-41 PDF George Drazenovich  Abstract This scoping review examines systemic and direct health care discrimination in Ontario, Canada, from 2021 to 2024, analyzing claims, contexts, affected groups, interventions, and…

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…

Week ending 31 May 2025 Financial commitments and new campaigns at WHA At this year’s World Health Assembly member states not only committed to the landmark Pandemic Agreement but also approved significant increases in assessed contributions 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…