Human rights and the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective and prospective analysis.

ABSTRACT: When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, the failure of many states to live up to their human rights obligations should be a central narrative. The pandemic began with Wuhan officials in China suppressing information, silencing whistleblowers, and violating the freedom of expression and the right to health. Since then, COVID-19's effects have been profoundly unequal, both nationally and globally. These inequalities have emphatically highlighted how far countries are from meeting the supreme human rights command of non-discrimination, from achieving the highest attainable standard of health that is equally the right of all people everywhere, and from taking the human rights obligation of international assistance and cooperation seriously. We propose embedding human rights and e

SUBMITTER: Gostin LO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9671650 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature