Articles in ‘Human Rights’

What should have been a straightforward yes-or-no question instead turned into a revealing display of ideological evasion on Wednesday, when Josh Hawley pressed an OB-GYN testifying before Congress to answer whether men can get pregnant. *MXM Exclusive* The witness, Nisha Verma, repeatedly declined to answer directly, despite presenting herself as a voice of science during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing …

Forecasting is a thankless business and often one that appears, at first glance, only partly rational. Yet it remains indispensable. Without an effort to look ahead, it is impossible to craft strategy or design public policy in a way that reduces information asymmetry and uncertainty. !Image Text *By* ***Murad Sadygzade****, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).*…

A cyberattack on the ManageMyHealth patient portal may have exposed sensitive personal health information of about 126,000 New Zealanders. Health Minister Simeon Brown said affected patients should be notified as quickly as possible, as authorities work with the privately operated platform to assess the damage and contain further risk. The breach occurred on December 29, when attackers calling themselves “Kazu” gained unauthorised access to…

The High Court has ordered the government to temporarily suspend its planned ban due to take effect this week on new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria, pending further court orders. The case arose after Cabinet agreed last month to stop all new prescriptions of puberty blockers, formally known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, until the results of a major United Kingdom clinical trial expected…