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Primates in Medical Research: A Matter of Convenience, Not Sound Science

By Dr. Hope Ferdowsian and Dr. L. Syd M Johnson

This op-ed highlights the translational failures in medical research caused by focusing on using animals in research and calls for transforming medical research so that it protects and benefits both people and animals.

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Pesticide Exposure and Poisoning in Children: A Case Study of India

by Leah Utyasheva and Lovleen Bhullar

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.

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Shifting the Moral Burden: Expanding Moral Status and Moral Agency

by Dr. L. Syd M Johnson

Who matters enough to warrant a right to health? This paper proposes a broad and inclusive view of moral status and moral agents and argues that collective entities should bear some of the burden of moral responsibility.

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One Health, COVID-19, and a Right to Health for Human and Nonhuman Animals

by Laurie Sellars, Kimberly Bernotas, and Jeff Sebo

This paper shows how the devastating impacts on people and animals of the COVID-19 pandemic make a case for advancing the interdependent rights, health, and wellbeing of humans, other animals, and our shared environment.

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Slaughterhouse Workers, Animals, and the Environment: The Need for a Rights-Centered Regulatory Framework

by Dr. Delcianna J. Winders and Dr. Elan Abrell

This paper discusses the long history of failed regulatory oversight in US slaughterhouses and the need for a right-to-health regulatory approach that protects people, animals, and the planet.

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Emerging from COVID-19: A New, Rights-Based Relationship with the Nonhuman World?

by Mia MacDonald

Mia MacDonald uses the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic to argue 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.

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