SouthViews No. 199, 12 June 2020
COVID-19 Economy vs. Human Rights: A Misleading Dichotomy
By Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
While COVID-19 is a threat to the rights to life and health, the human rights impact of the crisis goes well beyond medical and public health concerns. The health crisis itself and a number of state measures to contain it-—mainly isolation and quarantine-—are leading the world into an economic recession. States and others need to take preventive and mitigating measures urgently to contain the pandemic and these must entail global cooperation and coordination. Just as the health crisis response must be rooted in human rights law, so too must national and international responses to the drastic economic downturn.
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COVID-19 Economy vs. Human Rights: A Misleading Dichotomy
This article was tagged: Climate Change, COVID-19, Debt Sustainability, Economic Crisis, Employment, Health, Human Rights, Inequality, International Cooperation, Pandemic, Poverty Reduction, Public Health, Right to Health, Right to Life, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), TRIPS, Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
