Turkey's Health System: Lessons for Universal Coverage

This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) seeks to promote ear and hearing care, serving the Sustainable Development Goal agenda as well as the global population regardless of age, nationality, or hearing status. According to the report, more than 1.5 billion individuals globally have experienced some decline in hearing over their life course. Nearly one-third of these individuals will require care. Hearing loss has far-reaching consequences, developmentally for the individual and fiscally for society.…

This report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) describes the gender gaps and obstacles to decent work for women, as well as promising approaches to address these issues. Though the majority of women prefer to have a job, the difference in employment rates between men and women has hardly shrunk in the last 27 years, women remain underrepresented in leadership roles, and women are still paid less than men. The report notes that caregiving—unpaid care…

This report from the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights explores the current dangers facing migrant and displaced children in Greece. It identifies patterns of abuse and exploitation among children as young as 11, exacerbated by the absence of any sort of child protection system. The report examines factors and circumstances that place children at risk for exposure to long term sexual exploitation. The report contains testimonies by such children, as well as…