The World Health Organization (WHO) violated sound standards of medical care and human rights by nudging poorer countries to follow less expensive, untested and largely ineffective treatment protocols for tuberculosis patients, ...
Jun 23, 2016
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Thirty-one academic experts in children's health argue that absent urgent action by international aid agencies, 200 million children around the world could sustain serious, lifelong cognitive impairment. The National Academy ...
Jun 16, 2016
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Ireland's abortion ban subjects women to discriminatory, cruel and degrading treatment and should be ended immediately for cases involving fatal fetal abnormalities, U.N. human rights experts said Thursday.
Jun 9, 2016
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There's a buzz penetrating the political scene this election year and it's coming from the world's largest minority group: people with disabilities.
May 27, 2016
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The lack of access to reproductive rights in Latin America can have unanticipated consequences. The Zika virus outbreak, for example, highlights the need for reproductive rights. So does the alarming number of triplets, quadruplets, ...
Mar 31, 2016
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Fifty years of drug policies aimed at restricting and criminalizing drug use and minor possession have had serious detrimental effects on the health, wellbeing and human rights of drug users and the wider public, according ...
Mar 24, 2016
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Compliance with the international human rights framework to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is a complex process requiring a lot of time and effort, concludes human rights lawyer Annemarie Middelburg on ...
Mar 14, 2016
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When a diamond miner named Sahr arrived at the Ebola treatment unit in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in December 2014, he saw red fences surrounding the area where people with suspected and confirmed cases of the disease were to ...
Mar 7, 2016
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Refugees seeking asylum in the United States are twice as likely to be granted protection if their application is supported by medical documentation of torture, writes Jules Lipoff, MD, an assistant professor of Clinical ...
Mar 7, 2016
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When many people hear the word "surrogacy" their immediate reaction is to think of the plight of Baby Gammy, abandoned in Thailand by his intended parents.
Feb 25, 2016
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