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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…

PERSPECTIVE Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 13-17  PDF John C. Messinger and Leo Beletsky Introduction The recent confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has raised numerous concerns…

Week ending 3 May 2025 Authoritarians and corporate greed create a global crisis Amnesty International’s annual report The State of the World’s Human Rights claims the Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful…

EDITORIAL Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 1-11  PDF Joseph J. Amon Introduction The right to health is not usually realized through the benevolence of governments as much as the demands of populations. A critical part of those demands is manifest…

Week ending 7 April 2025 World Health Day, 7 April Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures: today starts a year focusing on maternal and newborn health. The World Health Organization is indeed hopeful this focus will urge governments to ramp up…

Week ending 21 March 2025 Philippines’ Duterte faces crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court Former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested and extradited on 11 March following the ICC’s warrant and…

Week ending 7 March 2025 International Women’s Day 2025: For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment As the world celebrates 30 years of achievement on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, gender discrimination…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 129-131, PDF Published 17 March 2025 Martha F. Davis In 2014, in the midst of the financial crisis in the US city of Detroit, the city began systematically shutting off water service to tens of…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 87-90, PDF Published 2 March 2025 Moses Mulumba, Jessica Oga, Juliana Nantaba, and Ana Lorena Ruano The recent shifts in global health policy, particularly the United States’ sudden retreat from…

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…