Human Rights

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

A displaced Syrian girl waves to theA Syrian girl waves to the camera at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on Feb. 17, 2019. Image: Aaref Wata/AFP/Getty camera at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on February 17, 2019. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP) (Photo credit should read AAREF WATAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Rise with Refugees: A GHN LIVE Event with the Stanford Refugee Research Project

Women painted a wall with eyes that stare back, and the message “We won’t be intimidated by your gaze."

For India’s Women, Safety in Numbers

Children play outside the Elder's Qammaq in downtown Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The Heavy Toll of Empty Calories: Nutrition as a Focus for Inuit Health

Operating tools are seen as pediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi performs a heart operation on 9-month-old Syrian refugee Amena al-Helou at the Hammoud Universal Hospital in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 2016.

Do We Have a Right to Surgery? The Case for Access to All

The Islamic University of Gaza after it was bombed in August 2014.

Unsafe Generation: Medical Students in Conflict Zones

A home care nurse (not seen) in New Delhi, India, offers a tin of nutritional supplement to the husband of a patient with cancer of the salivary gland in the terminal stages.

Palliative Pain Relief Woefully Inadequate Worldwide