To demonstrate an effective, alternative approach, Human Rights Watch partnered with Gerstein Crisis Centre, a community-based mental health crisis response center in Toronto that provides ...

World Health Organization (WHO) member states should push for clear commitments to human rights protections in the text of a draft “pandemic treaty” being negotiated on November 6-10, four ...

The first Trump administration denounced the United Nation’s hypocrisy on human rights, withdrawing from the U.N. Human Rights Council when the call for reforming its autocracy-heavy membership was ...

The Sixth Constitutional Convention Human Rights Committee, meeting earlier this week, addressed the placement of ...

The principles that will be announced on Dec. 13, 2024, are not binding, but they reflect and summarize widely accepted human rights standards. They are based on key concepts that urge ...

The latest issue of the Health and Human Rights Journal includes a special section on economic inequality and the right to health and an editorial by Amon on the importance of keeping the right to ...

As Nigeria joins the rest of the global community to commemorate the 2025 World Press Freedom Day, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has advocated for the establishment of ethical and ...

Joseph Amon, whose work focuses on neglected diseases and populations, has joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He ...

The Georgetown University Law Center hosted five justices from Latin American countries for a discussion on their experiences upholding the right to health within their judicial systems Nov. 12. The ...