Health
Every country in the world is now party to at least one human rights treaty that addresses health-related rights. Yet, harmful laws, policies and practices routinely interfere with access to health care and increase vulnerability to ill health, particularly for poor, marginalized or criminalized populations. Our work examines the right to health and a healthy environment, the right to be free from discrimination and arbitrary detention, and the right to information, free speech, expression and assembly as critical means of achieving health. We work on infectious diseases, pollution and environmental health, sexual and reproductive health, and non-communicable disease, including access to palliative care for patients suffering with terminal illness.
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Hungary: Health Care Failures Endanger Lives
Ensure Access to Adequate, Quality Health Care, Provide Sufficient Resources
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Russia: Health Workers Face Retaliation for Speaking Out
Frontline Staff Raise Safety Concerns During Covid-19 Pandemic
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Australia: Harsh Police Response During Covid-19
Victoria’s Parliament Shouldn’t Broaden Police Powers
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Ecuador’s Assembly Approves Bill Furthering the Right to Health
Proposed Health Code Would Improve Protection for Women, Girls, LGBTI People
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Killings in Philippines Up 50 Percent During Pandemic
‘Drug War’ Deaths Rise Dramatically as Country Reels from Covid-19
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Indigenous Australian Boy’s Death and Inadequate Health Care
Report Documents ‘Significant Disadvantage’ to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
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Witness: A Mother’s Hungarian Hospital Hell
Sick Children Crammed Together as They Wait for Treatment
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Venezuelan Migrants Face Covid-19 Risk in Aruba Detention Centers
Migrants Held for Months in Dangerous Conditions Amid Pandemic
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Death Penalty Danger in the Philippines
Reinstating Capital Punishment Risks International Condemnation, Sanctions
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Hungary: Health Care Failures Endanger Lives
Ensure Access to Adequate, Quality Health Care, Provide Sufficient Resources
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First US Hospital Pledges to End Intersex Surgeries
Historic Apology a Step Toward Respect for Bodily Autonomy
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Malaysia: Free Outspoken Migrant Worker
Arrest of Bangladeshi in Documentary Violates Free Speech Rights
