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By Jacqueline Bhabha Image: A UNICEF-sponsored project is seeing youth in Liberia take the lead in community mobilization against Ebola. Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret. June 8, 2015. Last week I attended a two-day colloquium at the United Nations…

Harvard FXB, by invitation from Open Society Foundations (OSF), has developed the 5th edition of the Health and Human Rights Resource Guide. The Resource Guide has been designed to be a user-friendly, multi-purpose tool in advocating for health and human…

Program Goals A photo taken of a woman and child in Ethiopia in connection with our study on the impacts of maternal mortality on children. The Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice program, founded and directed by Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH, is…

Program Goals Program Director Jacqueline Bhabha and Research Associate Orla Kelly at a school in Rajasthan, India. The Gender and Adolescent Agency program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights investigates the factors impinging on…

Program Goals The Social Justice and the Right to Health program, founded and directed by Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH, is informed by the view that the lack of global progress on women’s and children’s health is not principally due to technical…

June 3, 2015. We now know that the toll of maternal death is far higher than generally assumed. This means that the drop in maternal mortality seen in some countries over the past decade is not by itself sufficient measure of the success of efforts to…

by Margareta Matache and Arlan Fuller “The Roma movement has not been yet ready to…use protest, as a strategic pressure tactic.” May 27, 2015. School segregation stands as a stark expression of historic and current injustice…

By Rima Jolivet May 18, 2015. In an important development for the global maternal health community, the long-awaited Strategies toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) will be launched at the 68th World Health Assembly, at an event hosted by…

by Tezeta Tulloch “For many girls, the only viable options that remained were early marriage and early motherhood.”* May 6, 2015. What happens when a mother dies? In the West, the most ready and obvious answer is grief – the harrowing…

By Emelia Allan “I know this not only because the research says so, but because of my own experience as a Ghanaian woman…” May 6, 2015. As a member of the Kassena-Nankani ethnic group in Ghana, I grew up seeing my cousins and…