Archive: 2020

Marie Claire Van Hout In May 2020, the World Health Organization joined with other UN agencies in a call for governments to recognise the heightened vulnerability of prisoners to COVID-19 and to act urgently to reduce the risks.[1] Human rights…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 333 – 345 PDF Carmel Williams and Joseph J. Amon Introduction Since 2002 the United Nations, through the (now) Human Rights Council, has mandated experts to advance the right to the enjoyment of the…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 309 – 312 PDF Jonathan Cohen This Viewpoint is an abridged version of the keynote address of the 15th Anniversary Symposium of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of…

Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna E. Huffstetler, and Roojin Habibi Global health law is essential in framing national responses to the globalized threats of infectious disease, yet the legal foundations of the global health system are now being tested as…

Katherine C. McKenzie, Eleanor Emery, Kathryn Hampton, and Sural Shah President Donald Trump has made abolishing most immigration a priority of his administration, and his policies have resulted in the de facto dismantling of asylum in the United…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 313 – 316 PDF Sara Wallach, Alex Garner, Sean Howell, Tyler Adamson, Stefan Baral, and Chris Beyrer As of August 12, 2020, there are over 20 million confirmed cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…