Human Rights

A Xilotepec cemetery worker in Mexico City prepares to receive corpses of COVID-19 victims. May 8, 2020. Image: Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty

Top Global Health Moments of 2020

COVID-19 made the future even more uncertain for many vulnerable undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts, including this family who arrived from South America 6 years ago, photographed Mar. 24, 2020 in East Boston

COVID-19’s Impact on Undocumented Immigrants in Western Massachusetts

People in Minneapolis attend a candlelight vigil in memory of George Floyd and others on June 7, 2020. Image: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

The Racism Pandemic: Thoughts from an African Student

A maternity matron holds 2 baby girls, the first children conceived through IVF in Kenya, May 2006. Image: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty

Infertility as a Neglected Disease

Allison Bracy of Fontana hugs her daughter Brielle Bracy, 10, while attending a rally with hundreds of demonstrators to protest the death of George Floyd during the coronavirus pandemic in Riverside, California, June 4, 2020.

Lisa Cooper on Why the Racism Roiling America Is a Public Health Issue

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Baltimore Protesters Weigh the Risks—and Take to the Streets

Costa Rican farmworker harvesting bananas covered in insecticidal bags.Costa Rican farmworker harvesting bananas covered in insecticidal bags. Image: Madison Stewart

The Deadly Side of America’s Banana Obsession

Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca Morocco. Getty Images

Virginity Testing in Morocco: Assault on Dignity, or a Shield Against Assault?

Closing plenary of Women Deliver 2019

Delivery in Progress: Gender Equality

Attendees at a Women Deliver Power Stage event

Women Deliver 2019: Power, Progress and Change

Goodwill ambassador for UNHCR Emtithal Mahmoud delivered a captivating spoken-word performance for the GHN LIVE at Stanford audience on April 10, 2019.

GHN LIVE at Stanford: Awakening Empathy for Refugees

An inside view of es-Sevre (Revolution) hospital after it was attacked by Houthis in Taiz, Yemen on December 31, 2015.

Overdue Action Needed to Stop Attacks on Health Care