HHR Journal

VIEWPOINT Júnia Aparecida Laia da Mata and Sayed Abdul Basir Samimi The attack on a girls’ school in Minab On February 28, 2026, during coordinated US–Israeli air strikes against Iran, a girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, was struck with…

News to 16 May 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now 79th World Health Assembly this week This week (18–23 May 2026) global leaders meet in Geneva to debate pandemic preparedness, digital health, and expanding Universal Health Coverage…

Benjamin Mason Meier and Darby McBride  Abstract The United States stands apart from other nations in opposing the right to health under international law, with longstanding conservative opposition to a human right to health holding back policy…

Governing Difference: Traditional Peoples’ Rights and the Institutionalization of Traditional Medicine in South America Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi, Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, and Islândia Maria Carvalho de Sousa   Abstract Since the 1970s,…

BOOK REVIEW Audrey R. Chapman Social Injustice and Public Health, fourth edition, edited by Barry S. Levy (Oxford University Press, 2026) Social Injustice and Public Health is a comprehensive collection of 31 essays, each written by leading…

News to 8 May 2026 Authoritarianism is speeding up the climate crisis The global expansion of authoritarian rule is accelerating the climate crisis, as these leaders recommit to fossil fuels, cut global funding for climate mitigation and…

News to 1 May 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now WHO reports improvements despite funding crisis The World Health Organization’s 2025 Results Report highlights measurable improvements in people’s health worldwide in 2025,…

VIEWPOINT, 6 May 2026 Jessica Oga, Moses Mulumba, Stuart Ssebibubbu, Fatina Mwebe, and Nimrod Muhumuza On April 24, 2026, the Kenyan Court of Appeal at Malindi reinstated criminal proceedings against a 17-year-old girl who had received…

Ugnė Grigaitė, Gintaras Šumskas, Eglė Šumskienė, Karilė Levickaitė, Jurga Mataitytė-Diržienė, and Jūratė Charenkova Abstract This study explores the attitudes of mental health care professionals in Lithuania toward human rights principles,…

News to 24 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Humanity under attack from global anti-rights movements Amnesty International is calling on states to reject the backslide on human rights identified in its latest annual report, The…

News to 17 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now WHO convenes first global forum of leading institutions The first Global Forum of Collaborating Centres brought together over 800 institutions from 80 countries to discuss global…

Michelle Wazan, Tatyana Sleiman, Dima El Hajj, and Ramzi Haddad Abstract In Lebanon, the criminalization of drug use and the misapplication of ministerial directives have led hospitals to report overdose cases to law enforcement, deterring people…

VIEWPOINT, 16 April 2026 Mira Younes, Samirah Jarrar, Sahar Saeidnia, Malak Makki, and Nizar Hariri On March 13, 2026, amid Israeli preparations for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, an airstrike killed two paramedics at a health facility in…

News to 10 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Human Rights health groups demand an end to all fighting Physicians for Human Rights, Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear…

VIEWPOINT 15 April 2026 Felipe Agudelo-Hernández and Javier Díaz-Amaya When a conflict-affected adolescent appears before a juvenile judge in Colombia, the hearing often comes at the end of a much longer trajectory of harm. Many adolescents…

VIEWPOINT 9 April 2026 Richard Pearshouse Air pollution rarely appears on death certificates. With a notable exception from a London coroner’s report following the death of a nine-year-old girl in 2013, individual deaths are not typically…

News to 3 April 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now World Health Day: Stand with science on 7 April World Health Day 2026, 7 April, calls on people everywhere to stand with science. Under the theme “Together for health. Stand with…

Tonia Frame, Fred Nunes, and Dana Repka In Grenada, as across much of the English‑speaking Caribbean, many adolescents begin navigating sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs well before adulthood, often in contexts shaped by stigma and limited…

Sex testing all women athletes is a discriminatory rights violation Kyle Knight and Alex Müller The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced last week that they are going to genetically sex test all women athletes. The newly announced policy follows a secret process the IOC initiated last year, ostensibly to “protect the female category.” Sex testing has a sordid history of use by sporting…

Health and Human Rights News News to 27 March 2026 Global supply chain disruption hardest on the world’s poorest people The consequences of war in the Middle East are only just beginning to unfold, said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk, adding that Iran’s strikes on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz will have a severe toll if conflict is not quickly brought to an end. “Fossil fuels, medicine, foo…