COVID-19 and Human Rights

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.

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