Health and Human Rights

Health & Human Rights Program

About

The Health and Human Rights Program, launched in 2017, aims to improve the health and protection of some of the world’s most marginalized people – those experiencing violence and those impacted by conflict, natural disaster, or other humanitarian crises. Using innovative methods and intense technical assistance, our staff design and implement applied research, partnering with leading local and international organizations to develop new tools, guidelines, and interventions that can improve health and save lives.

Currently, our program is working...

Supporting Youth at Risk of Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Safer Cash Programming in Emergencies

About the Project

As donors and aid agencies increasingly turn toward cash assistance to support people displaced by conflict or natural disaster, evidence-based guidance is needed to ensure that cash safely and effectively reaches those who need it most. From 2017-2018, the Health and Human Rights Program completed the USAID-funded “Safer Cash” project in partnership with the International Rescue Committee. The project involved intensive research in conflict-affected communities in Cameroon and Afghanistan to inform the development of a toolkit for practitioners to...

Preventing Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings

About the Project

Growing evidence shows that child marriage—a practice that critically infringes on girls’ rights and negatively affects their health, education, psychosocial wellbeing, and lifelong development—can increase in humanitarian settings. Yet research on the drivers of child marriage is limited, and evidence on effective interventions is nearly absent from the global literature.

The Health and Human Rights Program partnered with Save the Children, Plan International, and local organizations in Jordan and Uganda to form the Child...

Our statement on the overturning of Roe v. Wade

June 24, 2022

UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Statement on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition annual report released with support from HRC

May 25, 2022

SHCC map of violence against healthcare workersThe Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC), with support from HRC Fellow & SHCC liaison...

HRC and Journalism Students Collaborate on Reveal Investigation

February 23, 2022

Grace Oldham of Reveal News, Berkeley Law student Emma MacPhee, journalism student Eliza Partika, and Gisela Perez de Acha of the Human Rights Center and Investigative Reporting Program celebrate the release of “A Strike at the Heart of Roe.”

Child Marriage in Humanitarian Crises: Girls and Parents Speak Out on Risk and Protective Factors, Decision-Making, and Solutions

Julie Freccero
Audrey Taylor
2021

Child marriage cover image final“Child Marriage in Humanitarian Crises: Girls and Parents Speak Out on Risk and Protective Factors, Decision-Making, and Solutions” is produced by UC Berkeley’s Human...

Sexual exploitation of unaccompanied migrant and refugee boys in Greece: Approaches to prevention

Julie Freccero
Dan Biswas
Audrey Whiting
Khaled Alrabe
Kim Thuy Seelinger
2017

Toward an End to Child Marriage

Julie Freccero
Audrey Whiting
2018

Toward an End to Child Marriage Report Cover