Pathology

Sociology

Disease

Cultural rights

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

International human rights law

Pandemic

Politics

Algorithm

Outbreak

Human rights

Political science

Virology

Law and economics

Civil rights

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Computer science

State (computer science)

Medicine

Fundamental rights

American Journal of International Law

Any meaningful human rights law approach to COVID-19 must be holistic and recognize the breadth of the challenges to both economic, social, and cultural rights, and civil and political rights. It must be grounded in the threat posed by the disease but also address responses to it, and implicate a wide range of state and nonstate actors. Such an analysis should offer a positive vision of effective global reaction, and counter attempts to hijack rights to oppose legitimate pandemic measures.

“Lest We Should Sleep”: COVID-19 and Human Rights