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Lodestar in the time of coronavirus? Interpreting international obligations to realise the right to health during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Bueno de Mesquita, Judith, Lougarre, Claire, Montel, Lisa and Sekalala, Sharifah (2023) Lodestar in the time of coronavirus? Interpreting international obligations to realise the right to health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Human Rights Law Review, 23 (1). ngac036. doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngac036 ISSN 1461-7781.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngac036
Abstract
While the right to health has gained significant momentum in international law over the past two years, there is little clarity on what it means for States to comply with this right in times of COVID-19. Taking Articles 2(1) and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as a starting point, our article follows an approach guided by the rules of treaty interpretation under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties to suggest how right to health obligations to prevent, treat and control infectious diseases should be interpreted in relation to COVID-19, and how these obligations interact with general obligations of immediacy, progressive realisation, minimum core and international assistance and cooperation in this context. This article makes a novel contribution to clarifying the right to health during COVID-19, thus enhancing capacity for the oversight of this right; its incorporation in global health law; and the understanding of its corresponding obligations in future global health emergencies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [LC] > K Law (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Right to health, COVID-19 (Disease), International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966 December 16), Public health laws, World health, Epidemics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Human Rights Law Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1461-7781 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 23 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Article Number: | ngac036 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/hrlr/ngac036 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 June 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 June 2023 |
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