Health and Human Rights
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A peer reviewed open access journal promoting global health equity and the right to health. Published by the FXB Center, Harvard University, and the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.
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At least six ships have been boarded by the Israeli navy so far and more interceptions are expected to take place.
Israeli forces board Gaza-bound aid flotilla, detain activists
At least six ships have been boarded by the Israeli navy so far and more interceptions are expected to take place.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
At least six ships have been boarded by the Israeli navy so far and more interceptions are expected to take place.
#HHR latest blog: receiving post accident care within 60 mins becomes a constitutional right in India - read @28shambhavi.bsky.social blog here: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/09/30/s...
October 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
#HHR latest blog: receiving post accident care within 60 mins becomes a constitutional right in India - read @28shambhavi.bsky.social blog here: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/09/30/s...
Check out #HHR latest Viewpoint: editor and former #CDC epidemiologist @joeamon.bsky.social Joe Amon writes about attacks on CDC. He argues that RFK Jr says his job “is to eliminate politics from science,” but his actions are the opposite: Read full Viewpoint here www.hhrjournal.org/2025/09/18/p...
September 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Check out #HHR latest Viewpoint: editor and former #CDC epidemiologist @joeamon.bsky.social Joe Amon writes about attacks on CDC. He argues that RFK Jr says his job “is to eliminate politics from science,” but his actions are the opposite: Read full Viewpoint here www.hhrjournal.org/2025/09/18/p...
#HHR latest news here, every week. This week: where are the ministries of peace, while Trump creates the 'department of war', and fires at a suspected vessel carrying drugs in international waters. The flotilla carrying aid to Gaza also fired at by Israel... www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...
September 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
#HHR latest news here, every week. This week: where are the ministries of peace, while Trump creates the 'department of war', and fires at a suspected vessel carrying drugs in international waters. The flotilla carrying aid to Gaza also fired at by Israel... www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...
#HHR Read all the health and human rights news from around the globe every week, here: www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...
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August 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Hong Kong takes slow cautious moves toward equality for LGBTQ people - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint by Patrick Tang www.hhrjournal.org/2025/08/06/t...
The Uncertain Path to Legal Recognition and Health Equity for Sexual Minorities in Hong Kong
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT
Patrick Tang
On September 5, 2023, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal delivered a landmark victory for LGBTQ rights in the semi-autonomous city state. In Sham Tsz Kit v...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hong Kong takes slow cautious moves toward equality for LGBTQ people - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint by Patrick Tang www.hhrjournal.org/2025/08/06/t...
At #HHR @fionacampbell.bsky.social reports on PHRI's paper on A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/29/a...
July 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
At #HHR @fionacampbell.bsky.social reports on PHRI's paper on A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/29/a...
Desperate women in Gaza trading in urine to get food & supplements for their families. Ekrema Shehab & Bilal Hamamra write this "is evidence of systemic collapse, resulting from Israeli policies that deliberately undermine Gazans’ ability to survive with dignity." www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/17/p...
Pregnant Women’s Urine Trade in Gaza
Ekrema Shehab and Bilal Hamamra
In Gaza, the humanitarian crisis has led to the emergence of a desperate trade in pregnant women’s urine. This practice, which we first learned about through social ...
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July 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Desperate women in Gaza trading in urine to get food & supplements for their families. Ekrema Shehab & Bilal Hamamra write this "is evidence of systemic collapse, resulting from Israeli policies that deliberately undermine Gazans’ ability to survive with dignity." www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/17/p...
Latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint on doctors' successful fight against #humanrights violations & martial law in #SouthKorea - by Yeon Jung Yu, Eojin Yi, Young Su Park, @martinmckee.bsky.social & Jiho Cha www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/15/p...
Politics of Health in a State of Exception: Martial Law in South Korea
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT
Yeon Jung Yu, Eojin Yi, Young Su Park, Martin McKee, and Jiho Cha
On December 3, 2024, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in South Korea—the first such invoc...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint on doctors' successful fight against #humanrights violations & martial law in #SouthKorea - by Yeon Jung Yu, Eojin Yi, Young Su Park, @martinmckee.bsky.social & Jiho Cha www.hhrjournal.org/2025/07/15/p...
Check out this week's health & human rights news: UN in financial crisis, rights programs cut, trans youth medical records sought, US medical groups sue RFK Jr,
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Week ending 5 July 2025
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UNAIDS Director Winnie Byanyima has called the Seville Platform for Actio...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Check out this week's health & human rights news: UN in financial crisis, rights programs cut, trans youth medical records sought, US medical groups sue RFK Jr,
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#HHR Flavia Bustreo, Rajat Khosla @khosla.bsky.social 𝗗𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝘆, & Kate Gilmore showcase successes in women's rights despite the current pushback - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint: sites.harvard.edu/hhrjournal/2...
Are Women’s Rights Human Rights Once and for All?
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT 8 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 platfo...
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July 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#HHR Flavia Bustreo, Rajat Khosla @khosla.bsky.social 𝗗𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝘆, & Kate Gilmore showcase successes in women's rights despite the current pushback - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint: sites.harvard.edu/hhrjournal/2...
Deadline approaching (20 July) for #HHR special section Exploring Innovative & Effective Accountability Arrangements and #healthrights: guest eds Paul Hunt & Anuj Kapilashrami www.hhrjournal.org/submissions/...
Upcoming Special Sections
All issues include general papers in addition to Special Sections
We are currently calling for submissions to two sections:
1 A Viewpoint Series, “Fight for Rights” for immediate publication an...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Deadline approaching (20 July) for #HHR special section Exploring Innovative & Effective Accountability Arrangements and #healthrights: guest eds Paul Hunt & Anuj Kapilashrami www.hhrjournal.org/submissions/...
Stay up with health & human rights news from around the globe: every week www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...
Health and Human Rights News
Week ending 5 July 2025
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Financing for development outcomes include health…
UNAIDS Director Winnie Byanyima has called the Seville Platform for Actio...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Health and Human Rights News
Week ending 21 June 2025
Civilian deaths in conflict surged in 2024
Civilian deaths in conflict surged by 40% last year, according to new data released by the UN human rights offic...
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June 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Corporates bid to own your DNA following the bankruptcy of 23andMe! Kaori Kawaguchi and Moon Hwan Lee examine the #humanrights #healthrights implications of treating this database as an asset www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/27/d...
DNA For Sale: The Human Rights Crisis in the 23andMe Bankruptcy
Kaori Kawaguchi and Moon Hwan Lee
The auction of identity
This month, a federal judge in Missouri may authorize the sale of one of the most sensitive genetic archives ever assembled. Through the...
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June 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Corporates bid to own your DNA following the bankruptcy of 23andMe! Kaori Kawaguchi and Moon Hwan Lee examine the #humanrights #healthrights implications of treating this database as an asset www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/27/d...
Although #humanrights were scaled back in #PandemicTreaty negotiations, in our latest blog @sircarn.bsky.social Safura Abdool Karim, @roojinhabibi.org & @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social urge states to incorporate rights in implementation www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/25/b...
Building Rights-Based Implementation After the Pandemic Agreement
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 I...
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June 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Although #humanrights were scaled back in #PandemicTreaty negotiations, in our latest blog @sircarn.bsky.social Safura Abdool Karim, @roojinhabibi.org & @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social urge states to incorporate rights in implementation www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/25/b...
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Health and Human Rights News
Week ending 14 June 2025
Scientists sign up to Bethesda Declaration
A letter to US NIH director Jay Bhattacharya signed by hundreds of NIH staffers has been supported by more than 22,000 oth...
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June 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This week's health & #humanrights news now online: www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...
When taking academic action helps cope with the horrors of war: blog by Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain and Bilal Irfan www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/19/a...
A Doctor’s Resistance in Gaza: Academic Action
Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain and Bilal Irfan
In January 2024, I (AA) received the headless body of my cousin, Islam Abo Riala, while I was on duty at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hosopital. He was a volunteer ambul...
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June 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
When taking academic action helps cope with the horrors of war: blog by Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain and Bilal Irfan www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/19/a...
Check out our June 2025 issue: read @joeamon.bsky.social editorial and entire Fight for Rights Viewpoint series www.hhrjournal.org
June 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Check out our June 2025 issue: read @joeamon.bsky.social editorial and entire Fight for Rights Viewpoint series www.hhrjournal.org
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June 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Read our Fight for Rights Viewpoint where a campaign for trans' peoples' rights successfully brought a bill before the Colombian senate when discrimination & violence were worsening; it illustrates power of social movements when #humanrights are threatened.
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Bodies That Resist: Transgender People’s Health and Rights in Colombia
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES
Fernande Álvarez-Molina, Magda Meneses, Andrés Camilo Restrepo Mora, Javier Guerrero, and Catalina González-Uribe
Colombia is witnessing a period ...
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June 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Read our Fight for Rights Viewpoint where a campaign for trans' peoples' rights successfully brought a bill before the Colombian senate when discrimination & violence were worsening; it illustrates power of social movements when #humanrights are threatened.
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Manufacturing medicines in sub-Saharan Africa would stop dependence on an unjust global health order - read our latest Fight for Rights viewpoint by @Stuart Ssebibubbu, Denis Kibira, and Adriano Lubanga #healthrights www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/08/b...
Breaking Barriers: Strengthening Health Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Improved Local Pharmaceutical Production
Stuart Ssebibubbu, Denis Kibira, and Adriano Lubanga
Introduction
The right to health, enshrined in international human rights frameworks, remains elusive for millions in sub-Saharan ...
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June 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Manufacturing medicines in sub-Saharan Africa would stop dependence on an unjust global health order - read our latest Fight for Rights viewpoint by @Stuart Ssebibubbu, Denis Kibira, and Adriano Lubanga #healthrights www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/08/b...
Our latest health & human rights news to 7 June: thousands of scientists sign letter fighting political oversight, civilians & medical facilities targeted by Russian drones, #humanrights needed in climate crises says Túrk, and more...https://www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-human-rights-news/
June 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Our latest health & human rights news to 7 June: thousands of scientists sign letter fighting political oversight, civilians & medical facilities targeted by Russian drones, #humanrights needed in climate crises says Túrk, and more...https://www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-human-rights-news/
Latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint looks courts & legislatures globally that are embracing reproductive conservatism— reinforcing boundaries about who can become a parent & who can't - limiting #reproductiverights for #LGBTQI+ - by Laura Dragnic Toha et al, www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/02/d...
Diverse Families Under Threat: Reproductive Conservatism
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES
Laura Dragnic Tohá, Paulina Macías Ortega, and Guillermina Pappier
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have played a transformative role in exp...
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June 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint looks courts & legislatures globally that are embracing reproductive conservatism— reinforcing boundaries about who can become a parent & who can't - limiting #reproductiverights for #LGBTQI+ - by Laura Dragnic Toha et al, www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/02/d...