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Urbanization
A map of the United States showing the locations of gun-related deaths over the course of a month, approximately 1,200 deaths. The map uses red circles to represent incidents, with the size indicating the number of victims killed, ranging from one to four. Specific locations of mass shootings are highlighted with larger circles and labeled. The distribution of incidents is concentrated in the eastern and southern parts of the United States, with fewer in the western states.

The United States Can't Arrest Its Way Out of Gun Violence

by Caroline Nobo

Communities, hospitals, and prosecutors can play valuable roles in curbing gun violence

Governance
A line graph titled 'Gun Violence Leads U.S. Childhood Deaths' compares deaths by firearms and motor vehicle accidents among children and adolescents in the United States from 2018 to 2022. The vertical axis shows the number of deaths, ranging from 3,200 to 4,400. Firearm deaths, represented by a red line, surpass motor vehicle accident deaths, represented by a blue line, beginning around 2020. In 2022, firearms killed 4,608 children.

Solutions to U.S. Gun Violence Hinge on Election

by Sarah Muthler

Physicians are working to improve patient safety education but rely on research funding that is in doubt

A community health worker evaluates a baby for malnutrition.
Governance

Mali Prioritizes Child Survival During Armed Conflict

by Fatoumata Nafo, Ari Johnson

Improving access to free health care decreased child mortality by 63% over three years

Monarch butterflies rest on the ground at the Sierra Chincua butterfly sanctuary.
Environment

Mexico's Shared Fate in the Absence of Trees

by Angelica F. Recierdo

Increased violence and illegal deforestation of Mexico's Michoacán risks environmental and human health

Marie Marcelle Deschamps is seen with a group of children in Haiti, in 2021.
Poverty

Why I Stay: Haiti's Fight for Health Care

by Marie-Marcelle Deschamps

GHESKIO, a long-standing health organization, continues the battle to provide care amid disasters and violence in Haiti

Students create a human chain in memory of victims of the shooting at Prague University.
Governance

Tragedy in Prague Ignites Debate on Gun Control

by Ana Braun

The struggle between individual rights and public safety continues amid the mass shooting in the Czech Republic

A family member holds a photograph of Rosivel Elisabeth Grande in Quezaltepeque, Honduras, on July 2, 2013. Grande was killed by an unidentified man who shot her five times when she was going to work
Gender

When Love Becomes Violence

Countries in Central America should build resilient institutions capable of implementing programs that support women

A woman wears a face mask and has the words "Freedom" written in blue paint on her forehead in Arabic. She takes part in a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini, near the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 4, 2022.
Gender

The Toll of Violence on Women and Youth in Iran

by Behnaz Darban, Natasha Poulopoulos

A "pervasive trauma is seeping through Iran," affecting the mental health of women and children

A woman takes part in a rally to commemorate International Women's Day in Karachi March 8, 2012
Gender

Pakistan's Femicide Crisis

by Anmol Irfan

Disinformation, state neglect, and patriarchal conditioning have perpetuated violence against women

A protester casts a projection during a demonstration against police violence and racial inequality in Portland, Oregon, U.S., August 1, 2020.
Governance

Ending Police Violence in America

by Mohsen Naghavi, Fablina Sharara, Eve Wool, Greg Bertolacci, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Laurent Grosvenor

It is time Americans hold themselves accountable for preventing police violence and invest in Black communities

dian widows listen to a talk by Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of NGO Sulabh International which funds some Indian widows sheltering in ashrams in Vindravan on March 3, 2015.
Gender

India's COVID-19 Widows

by Meera Khanna

Why women need protection under international law

A protester raises a #MeToo sign during a rally against harassment at Shinjuku shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan on April 28, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Gender

#TimesUp on Violence and Sexual Harassment Against Women in Health Professions

by Roopa Dhatt, Jessica Beagley, Sandra Oyarzo Torres, Amina Jama

This week marks the first international treaty to end workplace harassment

A woman wears a face mask during a protest on the Day of the Dead against gender violence and femicide, in Mexico City, Mexico, November 2, 2020.
Gender

Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

by Morissanda Kouyaté

Why we need a global treaty

"We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19," the authors write. Here women wearing masks take part in a protest against gender violence in Santiago, Chile, on December 6, 2019. The photo is a striking image of women wearing red masks lined up, each person holding a hand over one eye of the person in front of them. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
Gender

Violence in Times of Coronavirus—The Ugly Truth

by Amber Peterman, Megan O’Donnell, Karen Devries, Alessandra Guedes

We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19—we need a world free from violence against women and children