Format: Articles & Briefs

Primates in Medical Research: A Matter of Convenience, Not Sound Science
This op-ed highlights the translational and moral failures in medical research caused by focusing on using animals in research.

Pesticide Exposure and Poisoning in Children: A Case Study of India
This paper uses the case study of India to highlight failures in protecting children from pesticide poisoning and calls for taking children’s right to life and health seriously.

Shifting the Moral Burden: Expanding Moral Status and Moral Agency
Who matters enough to warrant a right to health? This paper proposes a broad and inclusive view of moral status, moral agents, and moral responsibility.

One Health, COVID-19, and a Right to Health for Human and Nonhuman Animals
This paper shows how the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic make a case for advancing the right to health for human and nonhuman beings.

Slaughterhouse Workers, Animals, and the Environment: The Need for a Rights-Centered Regulatory Framework
This paper discusses the long history of failed regulatory oversight in US slaughterhouses and the need for a right-to-health regulatory approach.

Emerging from COVID-19: A New, Rights-Based Relationship with the Nonhuman World?
Mia MacDonald argues for the rights of human and nonhuman populations to be accepted as complementary and to be advanced together to further the right to life and health.

Beyond Anthropocentrism: Health Rights and Ecological Justice
In this essay, the author highlights why we need to include both sentient and non-sentient beings in a right to health and justice, including through legal frameworks.

US High-Level Office for Children Is Critical for Children’s Rights
This article describes why a US High-Level Office is critical for children’s rights, health, and wellbeing.

Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science
This essay outlines the need to establish a Belmont Report for Animals that extends important research protections that humans get to other animals.

Toward an Antimaleficent Research Agenda
This article outlines recommendations for transforming medical research so that it protects and benefits both humans and other animals.