Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19
How the Pandemic Has Changed the World
- 208 pages
- English
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Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19
How the Pandemic Has Changed the World
About this book
This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic radically changed many aspects of the lives of individuals and entire societies. This crisis and the unprecedented experience required extraordinary solutions, regulations, and rapid responses from decision-makers to limit the spread of the disease and protect societies. To this end, during this period, many countries chose to impose states of emergency, resulting in the granting of extraordinary powers to the executive. This has sometimes been a very convenient pretext for introducing various types of restrictions, oppressive surveillance, and other legal arrangements that can be qualified as human rights violations. The authors make a scholarly summary of this period, identifying possible rights violations — but above all — recommendations for the future. This crisis has shown how important it is to have universal, equitable health and social protection systems that cover all community members equally and without discrimination, and the authors remodel the concept of "human rights" and "human needs". The book covers varied examples from lockdowns to vaccination to information control, across Spain, Poland, South Africa and Uganda, the Czech Republic, Belarus and Ukraine, and Russia.
This book will appeal to higher-level students and scholars of law, political science, and international relations and will also be helpful for public policymakers at national and international levels.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed the World from the Human Rights Perspective?
- 1 Accountability and COVID-19: The Spanish Perspective
- 2 Enforcement of Equality Before the Law in Poland During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- 3 COVID-19 Entrepreneurs: Corruption and the Violation of the Rights of Health and Development in South Africa and Uganda
- 4 New World Order After the Pandemic: Can “New Political Thinking” Be Reinvented?
- 5 Models of Human Resource Management in Healthcare Systems During a Pandemic: The Example of Poland
- 6 Smart Quarantine vs Strict Lockdown: Restrictions on Political Rights in Anti-Pandemic Strategies in the Czech Republic
- 7 Is Obligatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 Acceptable from the Human Rights Perspective?
- 8 Threats to Freedom of Expression in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 9 The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Changes in the Media Market and Information Pluralism
- 10 The COVID-19 Pandemic as Another Pretext for Information Control: Case Studies of Belarus and Ukraine
- 11 Grassroots Activity of Russian Citizens in Response to the Worsening Pandemic-Related Crisis of the State
- Conclusions: Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Index