right-to-health

The United States has a large degree of economic inequality. Twenty percent of low-income families get only 3.8 percent of the country’s income and one fifth...

Across the globe many women and girls still face discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. Gender inequality underpins many problems which...

Saudi Arabia’s continued violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the deteriorating situation in the kingdom through its sustained campaign of...

Britain’s early handling of the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst public health failures in UK history, with ministers and scientists taking a...

Like wars, climate change, and economic disruption of all kinds, sanctions do tremendous damage to vulnerable people. The difference is that economic...

Although more than 700 million vaccine doses have been administered globally, richer countries have received more than 87 per cent, and low-income countries...

Systemic injustice has intensified and political repression targeting dissidents, human rights defenders, clerics and independent civil society have...

Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine programme highlights the institutionalized discrimination that defines the Israeli government’s policy towards Palestinians.

The UAE’s human rights record has been sharply deteriorating in 2020. For any real improvements to be made in 2021 the UAE must seek to address its...

Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing back on the Trump administration’s plan to unveil stepped-up sanctions against Iran urging the outgoing president to...

U.S. News and World Report ranks Canada’s public health-care system as the most well-developed in the world. And yet, Indigenous communities are still not...

It is really sad to see that recent welfare reforms have pushed more children into poverty in a rich country like the UK. We are also concerned about...

UAE prison authorities should take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners amid reported Covid-19 outbreaks in at least three...

“Migration status is irrelevant to every human being’s dignity and their right to live. Instead of putting people’s health at increased risk, governments...

As coronavirus cases explode in Iran, U.S. sanctions hinder its access to drugs and medical equipment.

More than 300 non-governmental organizations refer to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Iran and the death of citizens as well as a number of doctors,...

Responding to an epidemic is not a question of balancing public health and human rights but rather that a successful and effective response requires us to...

Prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers should also take steps to ensure they are appropriately coordinating with public health departments and...

The Islamic Republic is one of only a few countries to provide comprehensive medical insurance for refugees on the same basis as its own citizens.

NDP health critic Don Davies warned Canada is at the "very cusp" of uncovering serious human-rights abuses affecting vulnerable women including those who are...