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...

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...

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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...

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...

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, www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

#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/...

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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...

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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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

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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. www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/09/b...

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/

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...

Our latest Viewpoint examines the far right tactic of binary narratives, good & evil, with the left & #healthrights #humanrights being the evil side - Jacqueline Pitanguy says never give up, & suggests strategies www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/29/h...

Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, brings a decolonial lens to #SRHR in a Fight for Rights Viewpoint: she examines power rooted in colonial legacies & structural racism at a time of attacks on abortion & criminalization of LGBTQIA+ ppl www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/26/r...

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This week's health & human rights news is out now: World leaders commit more $ to WHO to plug gaps left by US, increasing attacks on healthcare documented, Pandemic Treaty finally adopted, slow moves to avoid Gaza famine...Stay up to date here, every week: sites.harvard.edu/hhrjournal/h...

#HHR @ericfriedman.bsky.social & @gostin.bsky.social propose a tax on the ultrarich to feed & treat those starving & dying in humanitarian crises globally #healthrights #humanrights www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/20/a...

Viewpoint by Patrick Ndeba, Faraan O. Rahim, et al on humanitarian crisis in DRC following M23 Rebel invasion in #Goma They support UN call for humanitarian assistance & accountability to protect #humanrights, #healthrights of in DRC www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/18/g...

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#HHR #Taiwan's UHC & #healthrights protected by Constitutional Court ruling & public support that stopped unfair access & lack of fair contribution by expats - read our latest Fight for Rights Viewpoint by Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/13/m...

#HHR Involuntary commitment for addiction support likely to expand under new US administration despite lack of evidence to support its use. John Messinger & Leo Beletsky write this approach may increase deaths among people who use drugs: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/12/w...

#HHR Here's a Fight for Rights viewpoint that helped fulfil women's rights to reproductive health in Northern Ireland: access to first trimester screening - so important: @clairelougarre.bsky.social Suzie Heaney and Fiona Bloomer explain tactics: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/11/a...

”While there is much more to do and the work continues, the long-term, grassroots-led advocacy to recognize and honor the human right to water in Michigan has made a difference,” writes Professor Martha Davis in her latest blog for @hhrjournal.bsky.social.

#HHR Our latest editorial by @joeamon.bsky.social links attacks on free speech with #healthrights & genocide; Trump's crack down on universities & silencing debate on Gaza—where health rights are violated—is prelude for silencing debate at home www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/07/f...

#HHR paper by @brionyharden27.bsky.social et al examines natl dementia plans for #humanrights content: some rights fare well, those on non coercive practices less so. Read paper here: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/05/06/a...

Congratulations to Isabella Long, American University student, on her urgent and impactful article in Harvard's Health and Human Rights Journal: "From Forced Sterilization to Fertility Technology." @sisresearch.bsky.social @ausis.bsky.social @auwcl.bsky.social @hhrjournal.bsky.social

#HHR addressing reproductive health disparities in Puerto Rico requires redress for a long history of medical abuse: Read our latest blog by Isabella Long www.hhrjournal.org/2025/04/21/f...

#HHR Indian Supreme Ct rules to protect #humanrights #healthrights in landmark climate change & environment case which started over the Gt Indian Bustard - blog by Parth Chhapolia www.hhrjournal.org/2025/04/20/a...

#HHR this week's news includes Harvard's defence of its principles & rights, med journals under attack, deepening hunger & humanitarian crisis in Palestine & Sudan www.hhrjournal.org/health-and-h...

#HHR latest blog looks at the harassment & #humanrights violations that force #LGBTQ+ people to flee their home countries, but persists when they are refugees - Wazida Rahman & Manvitha Bangalore Shekar call for rights-based changes to legal & social processes www.hhrjournal.org/2025/04/09/p...

Fighting for rights has successes: Martha Davis presents the fight to have water recognised as a #humanright in Detroit - community activism resulted in affordable water plans for 000s of low income households. www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/16/l...

Viewpoint: Adriana Petryna urges broader consideration of emergency first responders in conflict zones under Intl Humanitarian Law: when conditions essential to civilian life are under siege, the life saving work of first responders must be recognised www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/11/t...

#HHR latest Viewpoint by Moses Mulumba, et al demands that states are held to account for health aid commitments: these are legally binding. Stopping aid is a failure of accountability, it imposes financial hardship & reinforces historical injustices www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/05/e...

Latest Viewpoint in Fight for Rights series Thomas Pogge proposes Let All Children Eat - fight aid freezes by joining a scheme for global school lunches: www.hhrjournal.org/2025/03/02/l...

Check out our Best Paper 2024: Esther Kamau & Gillian MacNaughton The Spirit of Human Rights: Universal Health Coverage in Makueni County, Kenya - www.hhrjournal.org/2024/11/18/t...

#HHR viewpoint Fight for Rights: on Uganda & its success with HIV, TB & malaria, Beatrice Were & Vanessa Okumu-McCarro: Trump's abrupt freeze on foreign aid represents a reckless abdication of international obligations.... & undermines decades of progress www.hhrjournal.org/2025/02/26/f...

Latest Viewpoint in our Fight for Right series by Beatrice Were & Vanessa Okumu-McCarron looks at impact on Uganda of Trump's health aid freeze - they urge Uganda to stop dependence on foreign $ for health www.hhrjournal.org/2025/02/26/f...