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FXB Center for Health & Human Rights | Harvard University Menu Close Menu Skip to content Search for: Search About Us About the FXB Center Leadership, Faculty, Staff, & Fellows Our History Work With Us Events Research Child Protection The Roma Program Present and Past Injustice Rights and Participation of Roma Youth Awareness Raising Studies on Refugee Youth with UNHCR Children on the Move National Identification Number Project Program on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Program on Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities Gender and Adolescent Agency in India Distress Migration Disaster Resilience and Response Program The Rohingya Puerto Rico All-Cause Mortality Study War and Crisis Studies Syria Data Science Research Partnerships Pedagogy Child Protection Certificate Program Field Education Internship FXB Online Courses Through HarvardX Health and Human Rights Resource Guide Publications Reports & Policy Briefs 2018 PUBLICATIONS 2017 PUBLICATIONS 2016 PUBLICATIONS 2015 PUBLICATIONS 2014 PUBLICATIONS Press Books Working Papers FXB Intersect India Digital Health Net HHR Journal FXB Study Highlights Critical Gaps in the United States’ Special Education System Read More A new study examines how the United States’ special education system is failing to serve communities of color equitably from start to finish. Read More New Report Evaluates Innovative Approach to Child Protection in India Read More A new FXB Center report underscores the need for innovative community strategies to prevent serious violations of children’s rights. Read More 30 Years Later: Are We Protecting Children’s Rights? Watch Now November 2019 marked 30 years since the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The FXB Center and Immigration Initiative at Harvard hosted an event to recognize this anniversary. Watch Now Opioid Summit: Stigma and Access to Treatment Learn More Watch Stigma and Access to Treatment, the October 10, 2019 University of Michigan - Harvard University summit on the opioid overdose crisis. Photo courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School. Learn More Posts Posted on February 5, 2020 FXB Center Stands in Solidarity With Sergio Aguayo François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Director Dr. Mary T. Bassett and Director of Research Professor Jacqueline Bhabha recently penned a letter to the Supreme Court of Mexico in support of Dr. Sergio Aguayo, journalist and FXB fellow. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Dr. Aguayo was ordered by a Mexico City court to pay a fine of 10 million pesos to former Coahuila state governor Humberto… Continue reading “FXB Center Stands in Solidarity With Sergio Aguayo” Categories: Blog , News Posted on January 13, 2020 January 13, 2020 Press Release: New Report Evaluates Innovative Approach to Child Protection in India January 13, 2020 For Immediate Release A new FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University report underscores the need for innovative community strategies to prevent serious violations of children’s rights. The report, “Before, Not After: An Evaluation of CINI’s Preventative Approach to Child Protection in India,” authored by Elizabeth Donger and Jacqueline Bhabha, documents and evaluates the harm prevention work carried out by the children’s rights nonprofit… Continue reading “Press Release: New Report Evaluates Innovative Approach to Child Protection in India” Categories: Featured , FXB Programs , News , Uncategorized // Tags: child in need institute , child protection , india Posted on January 10, 2020 January 10, 2020 New Study Highlights Critical Gaps in the United States’ Special Education System A new Harvard Educational Review article, “Racial Differences in Special Education Identification and Placement,” examines how the United States’ special education system is failing to serve communities of color equitably from start to finish, from identification to classroom placement. The article, authored by Todd Grindal, Laura Schifter, Gabriel Schwartz, and Thomas Hehir, analyzes the anonymous data of approximately 4.5 million public school students living in three states around the country.… Continue reading “New Study Highlights Critical Gaps in the United States’ Special Education System” Categories: Featured , News , Uncategorized // Tags: education , equity , Gabriel Schwartz , human rights , special education Posted on December 12, 2019 December 16, 2019 Celebrating 25 Years in Latest HHRJ Issue The December 2019 issue of Health and Human Rights marks its 25th year of publication. Celebrating the occasion, the editors dedicate the issue to founding editor Jonathan Mann and to Albina du Boisrouvray, who, as Mann wrote in his first editorial, “immediately understood, provided the means, and continues to share ideas and inspiration with us.” Published by the FXB Center since that first issue in 1994, the journal is now welcoming… Continue reading “Celebrating 25 Years in Latest HHRJ Issue” Categories: Blog , Featured , Highlights , News // Tags: health and human rights Posted on November 12, 2019 January 13, 2020 Press Release: New Harvard FXB/IOM Report Highlights Need for Better Support for Young Migrants Who Returned Home New Harvard FXB/IOM Report Highlights Need for Better Support for Young Migrants Who Returned Home For Immediate Release November 12, 2019 A new Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and International Organization for Migration (IOM) report finds that young migrants who returned home from Libya to Nigeria often face serious challenges in their efforts to reintegrate into society. The report, “Returning Home? The Reintegration Challenges Facing Children and… Continue reading “Press Release: New Harvard FXB/IOM Report Highlights Need for Better Support for Young Migrants Who Returned Home” Categories: Blog , Featured , News Posted on October 16, 2019 Op-Ed: Treating Stigma to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths In a recent op-ed, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, director of the Harvard FXB Center, and Dr. Chad Brummett of the University of Michigan explain how stigma has hindered efforts to address the opioid overdose crisis. Read the op-ed on Bridge Michigan’s website. Learn more about Stigma and Access to Treatment, the University of Michigan – Harvard University summit on the opioid crisis. Categories: Blog , Featured Posted on September 23, 2019 Climate Week 2019: Addressing an Urgent Threat to Health 2019-21 Climate and Human Health Fellow Dr. Caleb Dresser at the Climate Strike in Boston on September 20, 2019. Climate change poses an urgent threat to our fundamental human rights, including the right to health. An irrefutable body of scientific evidence demonstrates the various mechanisms through which climate change directly and indirectly threatens human health and well-being. Agricultural resources and land use have already been affected by climate change; water… Continue reading “Climate Week 2019: Addressing an Urgent Threat to Health” Categories: Blog , FXB Programs , Highlights // Tags: climate , climate change , climate week , health Posted on September 11, 2019 September 13, 2019 The Migrant Diaries: Vathy, Samos, Greece 2019 Wednesday 12th June It’s unbearable. I walk down a steep winding earth path between small tents and hovels made of plastic, scrap wood and blankets, clustered around smoking fires. There is rubbish everywhere, and the smell of human faeces. At one point the path runs beside a high mesh fence, topped with razor wire and cameras. Inside are the familiar white containers and yet more filthy tents crammed in between… Continue reading “The Migrant Diaries: Vathy, Samos, Greece 2019” Categories: Blog // Tags: child migration , Lynne Jones Posted on July 22, 2019 Trauma as a Border Control Strategy By Jacqueline Bhabha and Mary T. Bassett The United States continues to pull ahead in a xenophobic race to the bottom, making fear and trauma central to its border control toolkit. The list is ...