Plant Innovation in Europe: Patents and GMO Regulation
Recently three key areas have attracted special EU attention: sustainability, biodiversity, and food supply and security.
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Read more: Solidarity on Trial: The Criminalization of Abortion Activism in Poland Solidarity on Trial: The Criminalization of Abortion Activism in Poland
The prosecution of Justyna Wydrzyńska, a Polish abortion rights activist who sent abortion pills through the mail, marks a pivotal moment in the global struggle for reproductive justice.
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Read more: The Global Risks of America’s “Most-Favored-Nation” Drug Pricing Policy The Global Risks of America’s “Most-Favored-Nation” Drug Pricing Policy
The U.S. government’s reliance on the most-favored-nation (MFN) pricing model — tying drug costs to the lowest price paid by other countries — is a politically appealing but structurally flawed solution.
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Read more: Africa Must Lead the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance Through Hospital-based Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiatives Africa Must Lead the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance Through Hospital-based Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiatives
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health threat, but its impact is particularly severe in Africa, where resistance infection rates and death are highest.
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Read more: Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers for 2025-26 Academic Year Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers for 2025-26 Academic Year
The Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP) welcomes four affiliated researchers from Argentina for academic year 2025-26.
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Read more: COP29 and the UNFCCC’s Health Turn: Progress or Peril? COP29 and the UNFCCC’s Health Turn: Progress or Peril?
Conclusion of the Digital Symposium Climate Change and Health
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Read more: Reproductive Health at Risk: Climate Change and Agrotoxins in Latin America Reproductive Health at Risk: Climate Change and Agrotoxins in Latin America
By Cristina Rosero-Arteaga The climate emergency in Latin America is intensifying a long-standing yet underrecognized health crisis: reproductive harm due to agrochemical exposure, particularly for rural women. As shifting climate patterns threaten to exacerbate these harms, it is crucial to bring these issues into the focus of climate action. The region’s human rights framework —…
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Read more: Life rights for reproduction: Voices from the climate-affected rural subalterns Life rights for reproduction: Voices from the climate-affected rural subalterns
Women queue to fill their buckets, Bolangir, Odisha, India 18.1.2022. ©Nairita Roy Chaudhuri By Nairita Roy Chaudhuri Most small farmers in rural India directly depend on rainwater…
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Read more: Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: The Urgent Need for Intersectional Approaches in Climate Change Policy and Governance Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: The Urgent Need for Intersectional Approaches in Climate Change Policy and Governance
Photo credit: @wambuigichobi | SMA A Masai woman raises her fist as other women leaders look on at COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt during one of the debriefs by the Women and Gender Constituency. by Faith Lumonya, Esther Wambui, and Eunice Musiime As global temperatures rise and the frequency of extreme weather events…
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Read more: Lula’s environmental foreign policy, the global far-right, and the climate agenda Lula’s environmental foreign policy, the global far-right, and the climate agenda
By Danielle Hanna Rached and Denise Vitale Donald Trump’s second term in office promises to bring turmoil to the global climate agenda. Against the scientific consensus that fossil fuel is leading the world to a climate breakdown, Trump has managed to impose his opportunistic views on the rest of the world. For the amount of $1…
