Critical public health experts face rising maltreatment and corporate intrusion
Critical public health is under attack by both corporate sector and authoritarian regimes, warned panelists at International Association of Health Policy Europe conference, citing examples of Palestine, Turkey, and Australia
Israeli repression harms Palestinian health as world marks Human Rights Day
Israel is targeting health and social organizations in Palestine and deliberately disrupting their work. The impact on the health of Palestinians is enormous
11 months in Israeli prison: Shatha Odeh’s struggle for basic rights
Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh who was released recently after spending months in Israeli prisons describes the struggle for basic rights while incarcerated
Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh released from Israeli imprisonment
60-year-old Odeh has been freed after spending 11 months in arbitrary detention following her arrest by Israeli Occupation Forces in July 2021
Global South in solidarity with Palestine at World Health Assembly
Delegates from the Global South expressed solidarity with Palestine during a discussion on a report on the health status in occupied Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan
Israel sentences Palestinian nurse and health activist Shatha Odeh to 16 months in prison
On International Nurses Day, an Israeli military tribunal gave nurse and health activist Shatha Odeh a 16-month prison sentence. was given a 5 year suspended sentence on the condition that she does not provide health servicesfeat
Imprisoned Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh is a beacon of resistance globally
Imprisoned health activist Shatha Odeh continues to persist in the struggle for the right to health and women’s rights as she sends letter from prison for International Women’s Day
7 months after her arrest, Shatha Odeh’s case is emblematic of Israeli attack on Palestinian civil society
Shatha Odeh, the director of the Health Work Committees, has been in jail since July 2021 during which time she contracted COVID-19. Her case is a microcosm of Israel’s attempts to eliminate all voices critical of its discriminatory policies
Drivers demand debt relief for crushing taxi permit loans in the US and other stories
Today we look at the protest for debt relief by taxi drivers in New York City, the 19 year long wrongful imprisonment of Ahmed Rabbani by the U.S., and more
Protests against violent crackdown on Palestinians in Israeli jails and other stories
Today we look at protests against the violence faced by Palestinians in Israeli jails, protests held at the South African border in solidarity with Swaziland, and more
The cost of being a Palestinian: Shatha Odeh’s ordeal in prison
Shirin Abu Fannouneh, Shatha Odeh’s daughter, recounts her mother’s ordeal to Dr. Delen De la Paz from the People’s Health Movement
The arrest of Shatha Odeh undermines access to health care in Palestine
On 7 July, Israeli Occupying Forces detained 10 Palestinian activists including Dr Shatha Odeh from Health Work Committees. Odeh’s work is an important contribution to the right of health in Palestine
- Edmundo González has left Venezuela.
- 300,000 march against Macron’s appointment of conservative prime minister
- Right-wing fear mongering over gangs in Colorado obscures larger issue of landlord neglect
- Macron faces protest over appointment of right-wing PM
- Cry of the Excluded marks 30 years defending “true independence” in Brazil
