UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, applies a community-based protection approach rooted in the principle of “people protecting people”, recognizing that community members are often best placed to identify ...

Mental health service provision can—and should—respect the human rights of individuals seeking or receiving care. The necessary components of mental health services that respect human rights include ...

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” Dr. Afua Kuma, a Ghanaian philosopher, and Abeni, a scholar from West Africa Transition-aged youth, typically ...

Increasingly, states are adopting Section 1115 waivers that allow Medicaid to address health-related social needs (HRSN) such as food insecurity, housing instability, and lack of transportation. Ten ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide information to OHCHR to inform its expert workshop on the centrality of care and support from a human rights perspective and the High ...

Iowa City and Johnson County are participating in a 15-month pilot program aiming to train existing mobile crisis support services in the area in field mediation and redirect nonviolent, nonemergency ...