Article by Doug Rutzen and Nikhil Dutta. Just Security.
March 12, 2020.
A set of early analyses and recommendations of the human rights implications of COVID-19.
"Pandemics are fertile breeding grounds for governmental overreach... The coronavirus is indeed a significant threat to public health... Swift and effective government action is necessary. However, as we have seen during other emergency situations, some governments use a crisis as a pretext to infringe rights. Others retain over-broad emergency powers after the crisis subsides."
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