Human Rights

Older adults want more input in the technology related to their care, including companion robots and location trackers, two papers find.

Over one million women are controlled by the criminal justice system and over 741,000 women are in prison worldwide. Globally, the number of women in prison is estimated to have increased by about 59…

A scholar who has studied imprisonment explains why the promise of sentence reductions in return for organ donation raises ethical issues about whether inmates can ever consent freely.

Efforts to curb bullying of kids with disabilities should not take a one-size-fits-all approach, researchers say.

Indigenous communities in the Global South practice reciprocal assistance to strengthen mutual trust, pool assets, and build capacity.

Kelli Dillon was only 24 when a surgeon at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla decided that she was not fit to be a parent and intentionally sterilized her…

Women and people of color are largely missing from movie roles depicting physicians, a new study finds.

A CMS pilot project will test a low-cost way to help families support a suffering loved one. It’s more promising than ultra-expensive drugs that offer little payoff.

How rural women are unbraiding borders to reclaim power in agrarian India…

Kat Sánchez shares the impact of Bold Futures NM’s work for bodily autonomy and self-determination: “In New Mexico, we are already absorbing many people who are coming here for access, for…

Acts of protest and revolution have historically been powered by ordinary-but-extraordinary Black women like Gilmore: leaders and strategists, some formally educated, most not, the majority whose names aren’t instantly recognizable…

The Standing Rock Sioux reservation near the border of North and South Dakota has some of America’s most powerful winds, with 20 mile an hour (mph) gusts regularly scouring its vast plains.