Prospects for Children in the Polycrisis: A 2023 Global Outlook

Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit human rights organization that seeks to investigate and document human rights abuses, aiming to pressure governments, armed groups, and businesses for policy changes. The organization leads advocacy efforts and partners with organizations across the globe to empower citizens, hold perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable, and bring justice to victims. The Human Rights Watch is covering some of the world’s gravest crises including Syria’s civil war, the Rohingya refugee…

This report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) asserts that all people have the right to quality health care, especially individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS. The report includes a “right to health” timeline and outlines the essential elements of good health care to highlight the intersection of health and human rights. Access of HIV treatment is a central topic of this report, which specifically highlights the voices of patients from typically marginalized communities:…

This article from The Lancet discusses the intersection of global responses to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and reproductive health and justice. Women, girls, and vulnerable populations are likely to experience a heavier burden of the effects of the pandemic, which exacerbates existing sexual and reproductive health inequities. The authors discuss the effects of the pandemic on reproductive health thus far, noting that a disruption of services worldwide—from contraception supply to access to health providers and…