COVID-19

  • Jul202020

    COVID-19, Law and Human Rights: Essex Dialogues

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    Researchers from the HRBDT project have contributed to an extensive response to the coronavirus pandemic published by the Human Rights…

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  • Jul082020

    Policy Briefing on the Escalation of Domestic Violence during the Covid-19 Related Lockdown

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    Social distancing in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic has led to millions of families the world over being…

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  • Jun222020

    A Conversation with U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed: Covid 19 and Freedom of Belief

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    This interview first appeared in Just Security on 18 June 2020. Ryan Goodman, Just Security‘s co-editor-in-chief, recently posed a series of…

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  • May222020

    The COVID-19 pandemic: Five urgent principles for leaving no one behind through technology

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    This post first appeared on the Universal Rights Group website. The UN Secretary General has characterised the pandemic as a…

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  • May192020

    Knowing all of the law, all of the time – responding to Covid 19

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    This post originally appeared on the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law website on 14 May 2020. As Paul White has…

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  • May072020

    HRBDT Team sets out Requirements for Deployment of UK Contact-Tracing App in Submission to UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights

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    The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project team, comprising experts in human rights law, surveillance and computer science from…

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  • Apr302020

    Contact-tracing Apps and Human Rights

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    This post originally appeared on the EJIL: Talk! blog. The Covid-19 pandemic engages the full spectrum of states’ human rights…

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  • Apr222020

    Right On – The Wednesday Web Chat

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    The HRBDT project is supporting a new digital initiative that aims to keep the Human Rights dialogue going during the…

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