Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Health Issues

Polio Remains Endemic in Pakistan

The campaign is aiming to vaccinate more than 6M children, from April 21.

Published on: 21 April, 2025

Sudan’s Health Crisis Amid Ongoing Conflict

For many, this prolonged period of unrest has meant waiting for urgent medical care that has remained out of reach, leaving individuals in desperate need ..

Published on: 13 April, 2025

A Personal Reflection on the Global Call for Health Equity

The figures speak for themselves. WHO’s latest report reveals that, in 2022, 141 countries spent less than 5% of their GDP on healthcare—a figure that ..

Published on: 10 April, 2025

Unidentified Epidemic Strikes Congo, leaving 74 Dead and Hundreds Affected

Public health officials from the Africa CDC said they had collected samples and would know more later in the week.

Published on: 8 December, 2024

Libya Launches National Vaccination Campaign to Protect Children Amid Growing Health Risks

This campaign is organized by the National Center for Disease Control and aims to vaccinate children from one day old to six years old to ..

Published on: 10 November, 2024

A Clean Water Crisis in the UK

The water companies say they need more money from their customers in order to invest in the infrastructure required to clean up these problems.

Published on: 4 November, 2024

Addressing the Malnutrition Crisis in Northeast Nigeria

The organization’s findings underscore a grim reality: approximately 32 million people across Nigeria are currently grappling with food insecurity, exacerbated by a combination of persistent ..

Published on: 4 November, 2024

Controversial Assisted Dying Bill Heads to UK Parliament

In Europe, euthanasia is legal in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and Spain. Assisted dying, where someone is given the means to end their life themselves, ..

Published on: 16 October, 2024

WHO/Humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory

In September, Ministry of Health with WHO and partners was able to vaccinate around 560,000 children under ten years during the first round of a ..

Published on: 15 October, 2024

Rwanda Faces First Marburg Virus Outbreak: Six Lives Lost

In 2023, neighboring Tanzania reported cases of the disease, while Uganda faced its last outbreak in 2017.

Published on: 30 September, 2024

Gaza polio vaccination

Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters that it had vaccinated more than 161,000 children under 10 in the central area ..

Published on: 4 September, 2024