Women’s Health Rights can Guide International Climate Litigation:...
Hannah van Kolfschooten and Angela Hefti All over the world, individuals are taking governments to court for their role in climate change, or rather, their “climate inaction”. The 2022 Global Trends in...
View ArticleUN Expert Addresses Privacy and Health Rights Concerns in Digital Technology
Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion and Timothy Wafula Digital technology and its benefits and risks to the right to health are the focus of the latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the...
View ArticleUK Cost-of-Living Crisis and Food Banks: A Right to Health Critique
Sharifah Sekalala, Kevin Hearty, and Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa Interspersed between headlines of multiple crises in the United Kingdom such as leaving the European Union, COVID-19, successive changes of...
View ArticleUK AI Safety Summit will Impact Global Health: Time to Strengthen...
Sara (Meg) Davis The forthcoming high-level UK AI Safety Summit focuses on existential threats caused by the rapid growth and proliferation of AI systems. Health goals—for example, the promise of more...
View ArticleHealth and Human Rights Journal Announces Amon as Editor-in-Chief
Harvard University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, co-publishers of the Health and Human Rights Journal,...
View ArticleHealth Faculty Call for Ceasefire in Gaza and Centering Palestine in the...
A. Kayum Ahmed, Bram Wispelwey, and Yara Asi In an open letter to President Biden more than 100 faculty from schools of public health and medical schools across the United States joined calls for a...
View ArticleUK Public Health Registrars Write Open Letter Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza
As of 7 December 2023, the World Health Organization reports that 17,487 Palestinians have been killed in more than two months of bombardment on Gaza, with a large proportion of them children. The...
View ArticleImproving Global Health Governance in Armed Conflicts: Lessons from COVID-19
Beier Nelson, Lucy Tu, and Fatima Cody Stanford As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the global community is confronted with a different type of outbreak—not of disease, but armed conflict....
View ArticleRegulating Health Apps to Comply with Health Rights
Lyla Latif Digital health apps can play a crucial role in fulfilling core components of the right to health: availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality (AAAQ) of health services. Their use...
View ArticleRight to Shelter Needed in California
Holly Wertman New York and California are states of deep contradiction, both housing some of the nation’s most wealthy and also a sizeable proportion of the poorest. According to recent counts,...
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