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Sekalala, Sharifah, Forman, Lisa, Habibi, Roojin and Meier, Benjamin Mason (2020) Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response. BMJ Global Health, 5 (9). e003359. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003359 ISSN 2059-7908.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003359
Abstract
To mitigate the spread of COVID-19, governments throughout the world have introduced emergency measures that constrain individual freedoms, social and economic rights and global solidarity. These regulatory measures have closed schools, workplaces and transit systems, cancelled public gatherings, introduced mandatory home confinement and deployed large-scale electronic surveillance. In doing so, human rights obligations are rarely addressed, despite how significantly they are impacted by the pandemic response. The norms and principles of human rights should guide government responses to COVID-19, with these rights strengthening the public health response to COVID-19.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law [Moys] > KB General and Comparative Law R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects, Human rights | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ Global Health | ||||||||
| Publisher: | BMJ Publishing Group | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2059-7908 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 5 | ||||||||
| Number: | 9 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | e003359 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003359 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 November 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 November 2020 |
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