At the start of the 2022–2023 academic year, a group of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students approached me to ask whether I…
This chapter discusses the historically entrenched practice of minority scapegoating during epidemics, exemplified by the return of anti-…
Welcome. My name is Kathryn Sikkink. I am the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and I will be…
Douglas A. Johnson began his career as a human rights activist while earning his undergraduate degree in philosophy (1975) at Macalester…
An estimated 650 million girls and women alive today married before their 18th birthday. Referred to as girl child marriage, the formal or…
Aligned to the Lancet Migration Global Statement to include migrants and refugees in countries’ response to COVID-19, this update focuses…
When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights—and far less often the language…
This paper quantitatively examines the intergenerational effects of girl child marriage, or the developmental and health outcomes of…
With the expansion of antiretroviral treatment programmes, many children and adolescents with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa could expect to…
As we finalize this special section on Romani People and the Right to Health, a landmark ruling on Roma health rights has just been handed…