Mass Shootings: Tracking Gun Violence in the U.S.

This article from The Lancet provides an updated estimate on the prevalence of hearing loss in 2019 and the conditions associated with the disability for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The authors conducted systematic reviews of population-representative surveys on hearing loss prevalence from 1990 to 2019, finding that an estimated 1.57 billion people globally had hearing loss in 2019. This statistic accounts for one in five people worldwide. Of the 1.57 billion people,…

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…

This brief report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines a policy framework for ending violence against women. Physical, sexual, and psychological violence against women is a major public health and human rights problem rooted in gender inequality, and affects the lives and health of millions of women and girls worldwide. The RESPECT framework builds on the 2015 United Nations Prevention of Violence Against Women Framework, along with new data, to facilitate the scaling up…