@amarjesani.bsky.social
Researcher, teacher, activist - bioethics, public health & human rights. Editor https://ijme.in & co-founder https://fmesinstitute.org Mumbai India. A visiting faculty at a few institutions and universities. Loves reading - fiction, nonfiction & academic.
Significant:
Wounds such as burns or leg injuries more common in Gaza than among US soldiers who fought in Iraq/Afghanistan
“The extent of traumatic injury victims reflects “the impact of indiscriminate aerial and heavy explosive bombardment in civilian areas”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
NEW: Autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to human rights during both war and peacetime.
Technological advances and military investments are spurring the development of autonomous weapons systems that would operate without meaningful human control.
Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights.
Trans women are routinely denied healthcare, safe housing and dignity.
This isn’t an accident. It is hate, fuelled by those in power.
Trans rights are human rights — and I will always stand with the trans community.
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
So open with her mental illness.
Cuts to humanitarian aid WILL cost lives.
Disaster-hit communities, women in conflict zones, children threatened by malaria and many others face a future with diminished access to medical care.
Stand in solidarity and keep the conversation going. 📢
As more & more British money disappeared into Chinese pockets to pay for tea, there developed a vital need to sell something to China to stop the haemorrhage of gold. From 1780, the East India Company realised that India already produced a product the Chinese would willingly pay for: opium.
FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
India edges closer to China, hedging against Trump’s unpredictability – The Washington Post
Let’s be real about what could happen with this kind of information.
The mass sterilization of Native women is within living memory.
In the 70’s, the Indian Health Service sterilized one quarter of Native women without consent and despite legal prohibitions.
Screenshot of govt acknowledgement:
The forgotten Indian explorer who uncovered an ancient civilisation. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has recalled two dozen generic medicines sold to American patients because the Indian factory that made them failed to comply with U.S. manufacturing standards, federal records show.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
Gaza genocide and the Public health professionals / academics in Israel - here is an experiential account of a student.
ijme.in/articles/isr...
Sports and Ethics - the forthcoming theme issue of the IJME
ijme.in/articles/eth...
Community-based palliative care service in Kerala .... ijme.in/articles/unw...
Walt Kelly’s Pogo poster for the inaugural #EarthDay on April 22, 1970.
