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Jekhipe Beyond the Nation-State: Collective Life in Matache’s The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism

Bram Wispelwey

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

The Frame That Kills: Post-Abortion Care, Colonial Penal Law, and the Right to Health

Jessica Oga; Moses Mulumba; Stuart Ssebibubbu et al.

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Well-Being Under Structural Constraints of Political Instability in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank: A Cross-Sectional Study

Rula Ghandour; Abdullatif Husseini; Shiraz Nasr et al.

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

The well-being of Palestinians living under prolonged Israeli occupation is deeply conditioned by the structures of deprivation and control that shape daily life. Using data from 3,000 adults residing in refugee camps and surrounding urban areas of the West Bank, this study examines how…

Political Contestation of the Right to Health in the United States: Eighty Years of Conservative Opposition to Health and Human Rights

Benjamin Mason Meier; Darby Mcbride

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

The United States stands apart from other nations in opposing the right to health under international law, with longstanding conservative opposition to a human right to health holding back policy efforts to realize health care and underlying determinants of health—at home and throughout the world…

Social Injustice, Public Health, and Human Rights

Audrey R. Chapman

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Disaster Epidemiology: Human Rights and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Siege of Minneapolis.

Joseph J. Amon

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Balancing Protection and Autonomy: Adolescent Sexual Rights and the Limits of Criminal Law in Kenya

Mourice Onyango Okuon; Rita Babirye

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Religious Leaders’ Views on Rights of Khwaja Sira in Pakistan

Sameena Azhar; Atmaja Acharya; Imtyaz Ahmad et al.

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, religious leaders play a significant role in shaping public attitudes toward khwaja sira, people who identify as third gender. This study explores the perspectives of Muslim religious scholars and leaders in District Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the human rights…

A Decade of Failure: Attacks on Health Care Ten Years After Resolution 2286

Joseph J. Amon; Rohini J. Haar

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Evaluation of the United States’ Permitless Concealed Carry Laws and Child Health in the ECHO Cohort

Marie L. Churchill; Emily A. Knapp; Alexander D. Mccourt et al.

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Firearms are the leading cause of death among children in the United States (US). As of 2023, half of US states had enacted laws allowing permitless concealed carry of firearms. Our cross-sectional study evaluated the association between permitless concealed carry laws and child general health…

Trump’s War on Clean Air

Richard Pearshouse

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Crime Is Not the Beginning: Health Rights and Adolescent Criminalization in Conflict-Affected Colombia

Felipe Agudelo-Hernández; Javier Díaz-Amaya

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Accountability, Resistance, and Dissent in Public Health

Joseph J. Amon; Carmel Williams

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Intentions to Care, Structures That Restrain: The Reality of Secure Units in Residential Social Care Institutions in Slovenia

Juš Škraban; Andraž Kapus

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Despite ongoing criticism, the practice of involuntary admissions to locked units remains widespread globally. In this paper, we focus on secure units within residential social care institutions in Slovenia, which are intended to provide special protection for individuals deemed dangerous to…

Expanding Safe Hospital Access for Overdose Care in Lebanon

Michelle Wazan; Tatyana Sleiman; Dima El Hajj et al.

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

In Lebanon, the criminalization of drug use and the misapplication of ministerial directives have led hospitals to report overdose cases to law enforcement, deterring people who use drugs from seeking urgent medical care and increasing the risk of preventable death. This paper examines overdose…

Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: A Global Index to Monitor Government Action

Janani Shanthosh; Georgia White; Emma Feeny et al.

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Globally, gender inequality is deepening, with nearly 40% of countries experiencing regression between 2019 and 2022 and significant backlash against women’s rights in 2025. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) provides a legally binding framework…

Health Data Protection and Governance Under the Kenya–US Health Agreement

Allan Maleche; Sharifah Sekalala; Timothy Wafula

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Foreseeable Harms and Children’s Right to Health

Michael Garcia Bochenek

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Governing Difference: Traditional Peoples’ Rights and the Institutionalization of Traditional Medicine in South America

Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi; Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido; Islândia Maria Carvalho De Sousa

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Since the 1970s, the World Health Organization (WHO) has advanced “traditional medicine” as a global policy category for culturally grounded health care. In South America, this framework has encountered a distinct political landscape in which traditional peoples have emerged as collective subjects…

Defending Informed Consent: Civil Society’s Victory Against Emergency Research Deregulation in South Korea

Young Su Park; Doris Schroeder; Orla Drummond et al.

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 28 No. 1 · 2026 · English · DOAJ Scopus

Informed consent is both a foundational principle of research ethics and a human right grounded in self-determination and bodily integrity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, legislative attempts were made in South Korea to bypass informed consent and ethics review requirements for research involving…