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Are Opioid Settlement Funds Underwriting the US Surveillance State?
VIEWPOINT Roxanne Saucier, Diederik Lohman, and Kasia Malinowska Companies accused of catalyzing the United States’ overdose crisis are paying nearly US$60 billion dollars in settlements to jurisdictions across the country for “opioid…
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Violations of Women’s and Children’s Health Rights in Iranian Prisons
Babak Khatti, Hamed Farmand, and Marie Claire Van Hout Escalation of military conflict is intensifying an already profound human rights and public health crisis inside Iran’s prisons. The UN has documented the lack of evacuation plans in prisons…
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Negotiating Mental Health in the Lithuanian Parliament: Human Rights, Social Control, and Moral Regulation
Daumantas Stumbrys and Dainius Pūras Abstract Mental health is increasingly recognized as a human rights issue, yet little is known about how mental health is debated within political institutions, particularly in post-socialist societies. This…
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Prohibited Crops, Coping Economies, and the 2029 Review
Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Eric D. U. Gutierrez and Pedro Arenas Introduction: Starting with the people who live from prohibited crops The 2029 global review of the international drug control…
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From Criminalization to Reproductive Rights: Abortion-Related Hospitalizations and Clinical Coding Across Mexico’s Staggered State Decriminalization, 2010–2024
Sofía Gutiérrez Pérez and Raúl Bermúdez Camarena Abstract Between 2019 and 2025, more than two-thirds of Mexican states decriminalized voluntary abortion, and in September 2023 the Supreme Court removed abortion from the Federal Penal Code. No…
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Donor Withdrawal as a Human Rights Event: HIV Care After the 2025 US Foreign Assistance Freeze
Mnotho Ngcobo Abstract The 2025 US foreign assistance freeze exposed the extent to which the continuity of HIV care in donor-dependent health systems can rest on financing arrangements that remain legally and institutionally fragile. Focusing on…
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Human Rights and Harm Reduction 2.0: Beyond HIV and the Evidentiary Double Standard in Drug Policy
Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Daniel Wolfe Introduction Focused on reducing negative consequences of drug use without requiring abstinence, harm reduction advocates have long worked at the…
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The Broken Promise of Gaza’s Health System Reconstruction
VIEWPOINT Isabella Frigerio, Mohamed Abu Hilal, Andrew Gumbs, Umberto Cillo, Gaya Spolverato, and Alessandro Vitale On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire in Gaza was greeted as a promise that the work of rebuilding could finally begin. Nine months…
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Health and Human Rights News – September 2026
News to 25 September 2026 UN human rights funding crisis UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned this week that severe funding cuts are causing the entire human rights treaty body mechanism to face collapse. The budget crunch has…
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The World Health Organization Coca Review: A Post Mortem
Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Martin Jelsma Introduction For thousands of years, coca has been a cornerstone of the cultural, spiritual, and medicinal traditions of Indigenous Peoples in the…