What Are Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights? In a nutshell, these are your basic human rights to control your sexual and reproductive health. Laws where you live may or may not protect these rights ...

If you or a loved one has schizophrenia, you may have questions about mental health treatment rights. Can someone with schizophrenia be treated against their will? What decisions can they make about ...

The human right to health is set out in various international agreements. It is inseparable from other rights related to the right to attain a sufficient life, such as the right to access water, food, ...

In a recent position paper published in the Annuals of Internal Medicine, representatives of the American College of Physicians (ACP's) Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee highlight ...

While transgender people might be more culturally recognized in the U.S. than ever, visibility is not the same as justice. Transgender is an umbrella category that emerged in the U.S. in the 1990s to ...

Jacqueline Bhabha is Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also Director of Research at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for ...

Human Rights Watch would like to express our appreciation to the Special Rapporteur (SR) on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health for ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that an outbreak of the viral disease COVID-19 – first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China – had reached the level of a global ...

One of the most important intellectual strands in public health over the last century has been the development of a health and human rights approach. This approach reflects the understanding that ...