COVID-19 and Human Rights

Herausgeber: Davis, Martha F.; Lyons, Amanda; Kjaerum, Morten

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights. The contributors argue that a human rights perspective is necessary to understand the pervasive consequences of the crisis, while focusing attention on those being left behind and providing a necessary framework for the effort to 'build back better'. Expert contributors to this volume address interconnections between the COVID-19 crisis and human rights to equality and non-discrimination, including historical responses to pandemics, populism and authoritarianism, and the rights to health, information, water and the environment. Highlighting the dangerous potential for derogations from human rights, authors further scrutinize the human rights compliance of new legislation and policies in relation to issues such as privacy, protection of persons with disabilities, freedom of expression, and access to medicines. Acknowledging the pandemic as a defining moment for human rights, the volume proposes a post-crisis human rights agenda to engage civil society and government at all levels in concrete measures to roll back increasing inequality. With rich examples, new thinking, and provocative analyses of human rights, COVID-19, pandemics, crises, and inequality, this book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in all areas of human rights, global governance, and public health, as well as others who are ready to embark on an exploration of these complex challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780367688035
• ISBN-10: 0367688034
• Artikelnr.: 61399634

Autorenporträt

Morten Kjaerum is Director of Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden and Adjunct Professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Martha F. Davis is University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University School of Law, USA. Amanda Lyons is Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Human Rights During Health Crises 1. Human Rights against Human
Arbitrariness: Pandemics in a human rights historical perspective 2.
Human-rights-based versus Populist Responses to the Pandemic 3. Human
Rights and Health in Times of Pandemics: Necessity and proportionality 4.
COVID-19 Risk Communication: The right to information and participation
Part 2: Vulnerability and Inequality 5. The Human (Rights) Costs of
Inequality: Snapshots from a pandemic 6. Racial Justice to the Forefront:
Do Black Lives Matter in international law? 7. COVID-19 and Violence
against Women: Unprecedented impacts and suggestions for mitigation 8.
COVID-19 and Disability: A war of two paradigms 9. Life and Death in
Prisons 10. Seizing Opportunities to Promote the Protection of the Rights
of all Migrants Part 3: Cornerstones for Social Cohesion 11. A Paradigm
Shift for the Sustainable Development Goals? Human rights and the private
sector in the new social contract 12. The Human Right to Food: Lessons
learned towards food systems transformation 13. COVID-19 and the Human
Rights to Water and Sanitation 14. Land Rights in Crisis 15. How the
Pandemic has Impacted the Various Layers of the Global Garment Supply Chain
16. Campaigning for Both Innovation and Equitable Access to COVID-19
Medicines 17. Is COVID-19 Frustrating or Facilitating Sustainability
Transformations? An assessment from a human rights law perspective
Conclusion 18. The Post-crisis Human Rights Agenda