Human Rights

Three female volunteers, wearing cloth face masks, pose with leaflets about sexual health in Athens, Greece, on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 2021.

A Vote for Zero Discrimination Is a Vote for Human Dignity and Health

Blessing Abosede with her son Iyanu. Abiodun Jamiu

Maternal Health

In Nigeria, Hospitals Are Unlawfully Detaining Newborns to Force Payment of Medical Bills

A psychologist with Living with Dignity in Tajikistan looking into an open window into a room with a sewing machine on a table.

Living with Dignity in Tajikistan: Mental Health and Violence Against Women and Girls

Staff care for a pregnant patient in the Trocaire Doolow Hospital in Doolow, Somalia, October 15,2022. Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA/Getty.

Bridging the Gender Gap around Diagnostic Testing to Embrace Health Equity

A woman speaks into a microphone, addressing a crowd behind a banner reading "Rise up for Reproductive Justice" at a January 22 protest in Washington, DC.

Reproductive Health

Reproductive Risks and Rights in the Age of Dobbs

Akol Anna Grace, an assistant nursing officer of Kopoth Health Centre, poses between houses during a home visit in Kopoth, Karamoja region, Uganda, on May 25, 2022. Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty

Breaking the ‘XX Paradox'

People protesting the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini and the government of Iran on October 2, 2022, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Woman. Life. Freedom: The Heartbeat for Human Rights in Iran

Zahoor Ahmed Bhat stands outside his house in the Anantnag district of South Kashmir with the stretcher that his wife, Shakeela AkhterAkhter died on before she could get to an emergency maternal health care center. Image by Aliya Bashir.

Maternal Health

In Kashmir, Coronavirus Pushed Already-Broken Maternal Health over the Brink

Russian drug police burn bags of Methadone on December 23, 2014 in Simferopol, Crimea—a possible approach in newly occupied areas in Ukraine. Image: Yuriy Lashov/AFP via Getty Images

No Safe Place: Substance Use Therapy in Wartorn Ukraine

An injured resident of Togoga arrives at the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 23, 2021. Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images

Tigray (and Its Health Care System) Under Siege

A Ukrainian girl draws in a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet Children's Hospital on March 01, 2022 in Kyiv. Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Attacks on Health Care: Responding to the Brutal Reality

A girl finds her way to school on an early morning in Kibera Slums. Image: Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty

Child & Adolescent Health

Rights Denied: Adolescent Girls and Sexual Health: Our Untold Stories Contest Winner