Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi, Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, Islândia Maria Carvalho De Sousa
{"title":"Governing Difference: Traditional Peoples' Rights and the Institutionalization of Traditional Medicine in South America.","authors":"Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi, Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, Islândia Maria Carvalho De Sousa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the 1970s, the World Health Organization (WHO) has advanced \"traditional medicine\" as a global policy category for culturally grounded health care. In South America, this framework has encountered a distinct political landscape in which traditional peoples have emerged as collective subjects mobilizing around rights, territorial claims, and expanding conceptions of citizenship. This paper examines how the codification of \"tradition\" from an identity category into a health regulatory term reconfigures the conditions under which difference can be expressed, claimed, and sustained. Drawing on archival research across 10 South American countries, as well as WHO and United Nations documentation, the study traces how the global framework has been incorporated, requalified, or displaced across distinct national contexts. The analysis reveals a spectrum of regulatory arrangements in which institutional incorporation and the political force of collective difference are not commensurate, ranging from frameworks that engage with the political projects through which traditional peoples have sought to reshape citizenship to those in which \"tradition\" operates as a market authorization criterion detached from the subjects who sustain it. The codification of tradition into governable categories does not simply extend recognition to those who bear it; it reconfigures the terms under which they can act as political subjects.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"167-178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334852/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trump's War on Clean Air.","authors":"Richard Pearshouse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"47-50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334986/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intentions to Care, Structures That Restrain: The Reality of Secure Units in Residential Social Care Institutions in Slovenia.","authors":"Juš Škraban, Andraž Kapus","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite ongoing criticism, the practice of involuntary admissions to locked units remains widespread globally. In this paper, we focus on secure units within residential social care institutions in Slovenia, which are intended to provide special protection for individuals deemed dangerous to themselves or others. We conducted semi-structured individual and group interviews with institutional management, secure unit staff, and residents in all secure units across the country. The findings reveal three key issues. First, the spatial congregation of residents within secure units tends to exacerbate, rather than reduce, risk. Second, instead of addressing the specific risks that prompted admission, secure units often implement generalized restrictions aimed at maintaining internal safety. Third, the overall institutional structure significantly limits the provision of individualized care and constrains both staff and resident agency. Although secure units are formally defined as protective environments, the study suggests that they function primarily as institutional containers. As such, they are not only in violation of human rights but are also ineffective in fulfilling their intended purpose due to inherent institutional limitations. We argue that secure units should be abolished and replaced by community-based services.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"113-124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334719/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accountability, Resistance, and Dissent in Public Health.","authors":"Joseph J Amon, Carmel Williams","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"41-46"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334722/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica Oga, Moses Mulumba, Stuart Ssebibubbu, Fatina Mwebe, Nimrod Muhumuza
{"title":"The Frame That Kills: Post-Abortion Care, Colonial Penal Law, and the Right to Health.","authors":"Jessica Oga, Moses Mulumba, Stuart Ssebibubbu, Fatina Mwebe, Nimrod Muhumuza","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"63-66"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334784/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle Wazan, Tatyana Sleiman, Dima El Hajj, Ramzi Haddad
{"title":"Expanding Safe Hospital Access AM for Overdose Care in Lebanon.","authors":"Michelle Wazan, Tatyana Sleiman, Dima El Hajj, Ramzi Haddad","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Lebanon, the criminalization of drug use and the misapplication of ministerial directives have led hospitals to report overdose cases to law enforcement, deterring people who use drugs from seeking urgent medical care and increasing the risk of preventable death. This paper examines overdose response as a right to health issue, using civil society advocacy in Lebanon to illustrate how law enforcement involvement in health care settings undermines access to emergency care. Drawing on repeated nationwide mappings of hospital practices when receiving overdose cases conducted between 2016 and 2024, the paper documents patterns of compliance and noncompliance with Ministry of Public Health directives prohibiting the reporting of overdoses to the police. While sustained advocacy has contributed to multiple policy milestones, including ministerial and syndicate circulars reaffirming hospitals' duty of care without police involvement, implementation has remained uneven. Although more hospitals have stopped reporting overdose cases to the police, continued reporting remains tied to limited staff awareness, fear of liability, and stigmatizing attitudes toward people who use drugs. The Lebanese case highlights both the critical role and the structural limits of civil society monitoring in safeguarding access to emergency medical care under conditions of criminalization, crisis, and weak accountability. We argue that incremental protective policies are insufficient where emergency care remains entangled with punitive drug policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"105-112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334720/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaster Epidemiology: Human Rights and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Siege of Minneapolis.","authors":"Joseph J Amon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"51-54"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334758/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JÚnia Aparecida Laia Da Mata, Sayed Abdul Basir Samimi
{"title":"Schools Under Fire: Armed Conflict and the Vulnerability of Childhood.","authors":"JÚnia Aparecida Laia Da Mata, Sayed Abdul Basir Samimi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"15-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334912/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sameena Azhar, Atmaja Acharya, Imtyaz Ahmad, Muhammad Arshid, Md Saimum Islam, Dania Malik
{"title":"Religious Leaders' Views on Rights of Khwaja Sira in Pakistan.","authors":"Sameena Azhar, Atmaja Acharya, Imtyaz Ahmad, Muhammad Arshid, Md Saimum Islam, Dania Malik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, religious leaders play a significant role in shaping public attitudes toward khwaja sira, people who identify as third gender. This study explores the perspectives of Muslim religious scholars and leaders in District Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the human rights of khwaja sira. Applying a rights-based framework, we conducted 40 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Muslim religious scholars and leaders. Through abductive analytical techniques, we identified three key themes: (1) perceptions of human rights for khwaja sira in Pakistan; (2) third gender recognition in Islam; and (3) third gender recognition by the state. Our findings illuminate tensions between human rights frameworks and local religious understandings, while also suggesting that the views of religious scholars and leaders may be leveraged to shape public opinion on cisheteronormative notions of gender and sexuality in the Pashtun context.</p>","PeriodicalId":46953,"journal":{"name":"Health and Human Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"141-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334987/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}