Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises

Edited by Andrea Broderick, full Professor, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace, Department of International Law and Jennifer Sellin, Assistant Professor, Department of International Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Contents
Foreword x
Cornelius (Kees) Flinterman
Preface xiii
List of abbreviations xv
1 Introduction to Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and
Vulnerability in Times of Crises 1
Andrea Broderick and Jennifer Sellin
PART I THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS, AND
INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEGAL
PERSPECTIVES, IN TIMES OF CRISES
2 Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: can human
rights embrace solidarity? 13
Dalia Palombo
3 Human rights in times of triage: the discourse of the
United Nations human rights experts during COVID-19 41
Gustavo Arosemena
4 EU social rights in a (post-)pandemic era: peering through
the lens of disability and vulnerability 66
Andrea Broderick and Jasper Krommendijk
PART II SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN TIMES OF CRISES
5 The right to health: then, now and in the future 96
Jennifer Sellin and Brigit Toebes
6 The COVID-19 pandemic and access to clean water:
challenges and opportunities 121
Kasim Balarabe
7 Never walk alone: using international cooperation and the
right to science to build back better 145
Remmy Shawa
8 The right to science: another tool to repair gender
inequalities in sciences and research 169
Yvonne Donders
9 Indigenous rights during the pandemic and the concept of
building back better in endemic times 193
Vanessa Tünsmeyer
10 Conclusion 214
Jennifer Sellin and Andrea Broderick