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Tag: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
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Nation & World
Will inequality worsen the toll of the pandemic in the U.S.?
America’s ragged social safety net and large inequity between rich and poor may set it up for a rough road ahead as it deals with the coronavirus epidemic, a Harvard Chan School professor said Tuesday.
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Stigma of opioids a hurdle to solving crisis
“Can you think of all the tax dollars it’s cost for you to go to detox?” the doctor asked Raina McMahan when she arrived at the clinic in Revere seeking…
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Nation & World
Another climate change concern: Forced migration
Experts trace the fingerprints of climate change in the world’s mass migration crises, saying that the effects of shifting norma appear to play a role.
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A siren call to action
Professor Jessica E. Stern, a leading terrorism expert, talks about the growing number of young, middle-class Westerners leaving home to join the Islamic State.
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Nation & World
Defining rights
Researchers from around the world came to Harvard to examine the rise of international court cases on issues of sexual and reproductive rights.
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Nation & World
Handmade horrors
A new study has documented “slavelike” conditions in India’s handmade carpet industry, the largest single source of carpets sold in some of the most well-known U.S. retailers.
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Nation & World
21 million in slavery
Experts on forced labor and sexual slavery outlined what remains a large-scale problem.
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Tracking disease in a tent city
At India’s Kumbh Mela, the largest temporary city in the world, public health researchers from Harvard and beyond staged a small but nimble operation to follow health measures and disease outbreaks. The results will hold lessons not just for future Harvard students, but for urban health planners in India and elsewhere.
