HHR Journal

News to 28 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Meta settles in US child harm lawsuit Meta agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit…

News to 21 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now ICE awards itself a superior grade Despite 23 people having died in its US detention centers so far this year—the highest rate in over 20 years—the Immigration and Customs…

Paper in Press, 27 August 2026 Maria Teresa Moreira, Andreia Lima, Christina César Praça Brasil, Vânia Peixoto, and Rita Alegria Abstract Autistic people experience systematic exclusion within health care systems organized around neurotypical…

VIEWPOINT Sebastian León-Giraldo, Juli Salamanca, and Lina Quevedo Introduction The fight over gender is also a fight over data. Anti-gender politics operate through laws, speeches, and restrictions on care.[1] But they also reach census…

News to 14 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Public health research for accountability in Gaza Public health researchers who have been documenting Israeli actions against the health system in Gaza since October 2023, write…

News to 7 August 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now AIDS 2026: Decades of progress threatened Throughout last week’s AIDS 2026 conference there was an inescapable theme of continuing, and escalating, threats facing key…

News to 31 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Türk secures reappointment as Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has been reappointed as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights by an overwhelming 144-10 margin, with the United States,…

VIEWPOINT Joseph J. Amon Woven throughout the presentations and poster sessions at AIDS 2026 was an inescapable theme of continuing, and escalating, threats facing key populations, including criminalization, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, and funding…

Edwin J Bernard AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.27 July 2026.OP01. Openning Session.In the photo: Protests AIDS 2026, the biennial global conference on all things HIV, closed on July 31 after a week of…

News to 24 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Increasing Ebola deaths among health workers in DRC The World Health Organization confirms 2124 cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been reported with 830 deaths.…

STUDENT ESSAY Noor Abbasi Abstract Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) occupy a central yet largely unaccountable role in the United States’ pharmaceutical supply chain, controlling access to essential medications for over 275 million Americans.…

VIEWPOINTSamar Al-Hajj and Rakan Nassereldine In the early months of 2026, renewed hostilities in Lebanon once again placed the country’s emergency medical services directly in the line of fire. Figure 1 shows a Lebanese Civil Defense ambulance,…

News to 17 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Latest US-Iran strikes pose grave risks to human rights Following escalating military strikes and the reported closure of the Strait of Hormuz this week, UN Human Rights High…

Param Khandekar Prominent Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has been on a hunger strike in Delhi since 28 June 2026 demanding the resignation of the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in examinations to study medicine.…

News to 10 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Mariângela Simão: Next Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr Mariângela Simão of Brazil has been appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as the fifth Special Rapporteur on the…

News to 3 July 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN, PHM call for solidarity to support Venezuela A week on from the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, the deaths of more than 1,719 individuals have been confirmed. Around 12,000…

VIEWPOINT Grace Lee The World Health Organization defines attacks on health care as “any act of verbal or physical violence or obstruction or threat of violence that interferes with the availability, access, and delivery of curative and/or preventive…

News to 27 June 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now UN: Israeli targeting of Palestinian children called genocide Israeli authorities have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and…

News to 20 June 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Human Rights chief calls for report on school attack to be made public In welcoming the announcement that the United States and Iran have agreed on a peace deal, UN Human Rights High…

News to 13 June 2026 Stay up-to-date: join our email list now Health as an enabler of dignity In her final report to the HRC Special Rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng Mofokeng returns to the issue she identified at the start of her…