A landmark report by the UN Commissioner for Human Rights documents serious human rights abuses perpetrated against sexual and gender minorities worldwide. This is a positive step forward and a victory for LGBT activists who risk their lives fighting for human rights in every corner of the globe.
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Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Brazil, Chile, David Scamell, El Salvador, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, law and health, LGBTI, public health, rape, sexual health and rights, Tonga, transgender, UN Human Rights Council, United States, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, violence against women
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Advocates scored a major legal victory when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that forced sterilization is a violation of the right to be free from torture or inhuman and degrading treatment. This groundbreaking judgment is a step forward for efforts to bring justice to the potentially...
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is set to review recommendations made by a high level panel. If adopted, the panel’s broad and far-reaching recommendations could fundamentally change the way the Global Fund does business.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Health
Topics: accountability, Global Fund, health financing, HIV/AIDS, human rights, malaria, men who have sex with men, public health, Public Health Program, sex workers, Shannon Kowalski, Swaziland, Thailand, tuberculosis, Uganda, Ukraine, Zambia
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Igor Kuzmenko chronicles how opioid substitution therapy can offer drug users in Ukraine the chance to stabilize their lives and start anew.
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The U.S. Congress prioritizes patent exemptions for Wall Street business methods. Why not for lifesaving medicines?
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On World Hepatitis Day, civil society groups are asking the World Health Organization to help save lives by demanding less expensive hepatitis C treatment medicines.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health
Topics: access to medicines, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, civil society, drug users, Georgia, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, human rights, India, Indonesia, Margaret Chan, public health, Thailand, Ukraine, Vietnam, viral hepatitis, World Health Organization, World Hepatitis Day
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Although hepatitis C is curable, most patients outside of the developed world are unable to access treatment, due largely in part to prohibitive pricing of lifesaving medicines.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, Brazil, drug users, Georgia, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, human rights, India, Indonesia, public health, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, United States, video, World Health Organization, World Hepatitis Day
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Cambodia's new drug law has human rights groups concerned that the country's abusive practices toward drug users will intensify.
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For too long, human rights organizations have shied away from making disability rights part of their mandate. This must change.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Council of Europe, disability rights, human rights, Interights, Ireland, Mary McAleese, Susan Treadwell, Thomas Hammarberg, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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