nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210410-101028-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210410s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210410-101028-0 doi eng 342 23 Donald, Alice Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-8541-3530 Human Rights and COVID-19: Forging Recovery After a Pandemic of Abuses? Donald, Alice Verfassungsblog 2021-04-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier We anticipated a year ago that the pandemic, and state responses to it, presented both threats and opportunities in relation to the full panoply of human rights—civil, political, economic, social and cultural. Our proposition was that, as Scheinin ventures, “human rights do not present a barrier to decisive action to contain the virus”. Rather, they offer a universal frame of reference in the context of COVID-19—guiding national authorities as they balance competing interests and priorities; ensuring public accountability for their actions and omissions; and rendering visible the structural injustices that have driven the contagion’s disproportionate impact on certain communities. A year on, these arguments are all the starker. CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 Human Rights Leach, Philip Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/human-rights-and-covid-19-forging-recovery-after-a-pandemic-of-abuses/ raw object