COVID-19 and human rights / edited by Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis and Amanda Lyons.
Contributor(s): Kjaerum, Morten [editor.]
| Davis, Martha F [editor.] | Lyons, Amanda [editor.].Series: Routledge studies in human rights: Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge, 2021Description: xxvi, 321 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeeISBN: 9780367688035; 9780367688059 ; 9781003139140.Subject(s): COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects | Human rightsDDC classification: 362.1962414 Summary: "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."-- Taken from back cover.
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| 362.1962414 ADE Global health in practice : investing amidst pandemics, denial of evidence, and neo-dependency / | 362.1962414 BAM The unequal pandemic : COVID-19 and health inequalities / | 362.1962414 COR Coronavirus politics : the comparative politics and policy of COVID-19 / | 362.1962414 COV COVID-19 and human rights / | 362.1962414 COV COVID-19, the global south and the pandemic's development impact / | 362.1962414 ETH The ethics of pandemics / | 362.1962414 HAN Pandemic diaries : the inside story of Britain's battle against COVID / |
"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."-- Taken from back cover.