http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200512-133728-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/human-rights-the-essential-frame-of-reference-in-the-global-response-to-covid-19/ Human Rights – The Essential Frame of Reference in the Global Response to COVID-19 Donald, Alice Leach, Philip eng 2020-05-12 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus COVID 19 Human Rights ICCPR Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 It is mistaken to conceive of COVID-19 principally as a threat whose eradication necessarily requires rights to be sacrificed. Rather, human rights standards and principles offer a means of transparently balancing competing interests and priorities in the cauldron of COVID-19 decision-making – and rights-respecting measures which secure public confidence are likely to be more effective and sustainable over time than arbitrary or repressive ones.