Opinion & Analysis:  Health and Human Rights

Opinion & Analysis

June 11, 2020

Civil Society Steps Up in the Context of COVID-19: Lessons From the Push for Transparency and Accountability in Brazil

April 17, 2020

COVID-19 Incites Policy Change Surrounding Access to Reproductive Health Services

April 10, 2020

The Invisible Pandemic of NCDs May Now Come To Light

March 13, 2020

The Role of Marketing Campaigns in the Beat of Non-Communicable Diseases

March 6, 2020

Back to Labels

February 27, 2020

Food Banks, Hunger and the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases

February 21, 2020

From Mining to Food and Beverage, Corporations Dictate the Rules of the Game

February 7, 2020

What Does the Super Bowl Have to Do with Noncommunicable Diseases?

January 31, 2020

Would Argentina Benefit From a Soda Tax?

January 23, 2020

Pesticides and Human Rights

January 17, 2020

No Room for Reproductive Choices: Forced Contraception Within the FARC in Colombia

December 7, 2019

All Eyes on Coca-Cola

November 25, 2019

Informed Consent and Early Motherhood

November 8, 2019

Mexico to Adopt Front-of-package Warning Labels in the Fight for Healthy Foods

August 29, 2019

The Other Confidentiality

August 21, 2019

Human Duties, Populism and Hope for Global Health

August 15, 2019

Two Sides to Every Coin: India’s New Ban on Commercial Surrogacy

August 9, 2019

Obesity and the Weight of Inequality in Brazil

August 4, 2019

The Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela and the Burden on Girls and Women

March 22, 2019

Tobacco Industry, Bribery, and Anticorruption

April 7, 2019

Submission of an Amicus Brief to the Inter-American Court in the Case of Indigenous Communities Belonging to the Lhaka Honhat Association v. Argentina

April 1, 2019

Birth Plans and Obstetric Violence: The Question We Should Be Asking

January 23, 2019

The Situation of Access to Health Services in El Salvador

January 2, 2019

Taxes, Development, and Human Rights: Reflections from Colombia

December 10, 2018

International Human Rights Day: “The Right to Health in National Courts”

April 11, 2018

Rethinking Obstetric Violence: Is Criminalization Really the Only Way Forward?

May 17, 2019

Epidemiology Makes It to Court: From Tobacco to Herbicides

May 31, 2019

World No Tobacco Day 2019

September 20, 2018

The FDA Comes Down on E-Cigarettes: Balancing Harm Reduction and Youth Protection

February 21, 2020

A Framework Convention on Alcohol Control? Part 1

July 2, 2020

A Framework Convention on Alcohol Control? Part 2

September 5, 2018

Argentina: Alarming regressive measure on the right to health

May 18, 2017

The fight against hidden suffering: El Salvador to decriminalize abortion

January 24, 2017

Informed Consent, Gendered Power Relations and the IACHR: the I.V. vs. Bolivia Case

January 17, 2017

Reproductive Health & Zika in Venezuela

October 27, 2016

El Salvador’s Lawmakers at a Crossroads

July 28, 2020

UN Experts Call for Decisive Measures to Tackle NCDs: Front-of-Package Warning Labelling

September 1, 2020

Big Soda Sanctioned for Deceptive Advertising in Landmark Decision in Colombia

June 20, 2017

A Tale of Two Cities: Victories for Soda Taxes in Philadelphia and Seattle

April 12, 2017

Colombia Orders Sweetened Beverage Commercial off the Air

March 27, 2017

World Salt Awareness Week: innovative regulations to reduce salt intake

February 24, 2017

Let’s Get Physical: WHO’s Renewed Focus on Promoting Physical Activity

January 30, 2017

Banning free soda refills: building on soda taxes to reduce obesity

November 21, 2016

Some good news from Election Day: four U.S. cities vote in taxes on sugary drinks

October 17, 2016

A popular tax? Philadelphians support soda tax, especially millennials

September 19, 2016

More sugar industry interference: this time with ads warning of the health effects of soda

June 24, 2016

Philadelphia’s soda tax: a win for public health (and the city’s budget)

May 20, 2016

Ending tax subsidies for junk food advertising to children

October 21, 2022

Health Over Corporate Interests: A Remarkable Decision on Tobacco Control in Uruguay

October 21, 2022

La Salud Sobre Intereses Corporativos: Una Decisión Notable Sobre Control De Tabaco En Uruguay (Health Over Corporate Interests: A Remarkable Decision on Tobacco Control in Uruguay)