Predicting Preparedness Through the 2019 Global Health Index: Mistakes and Lessons Learned
Preparedness means more than being good at planning or having processes in place. It also means being good at predictions.
Preparedness
A Feminist Human Rights Preparedness for Pandemics and Other Emergencies
La humanidad es todavía algo que hay que humanizar: Humanity is still something to be humanised.
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Preparedness? Unpreparedness? Or Punctuated Preparedness?
‘Punctuated.’ It’s not a widely-used word, and I can’t think of a time in the past when I considered it. Yet ever since the arrival of COVID-19, it feels about right.
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The Reinvention of Multilateralism
When the UN founding members promoted the entry into force of the Constitution of the World Health Organization in 1948 they declared inequality in the promotion of health and control of communicable diseases a common threat.
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Children Behind Bars in Times of COVID-19: Are Governments Prepared?
Since deprivation of liberty has a particularly severe impact on the physical and mental health and development of children, who are still in their formative years, the Convention on the Rights of the Child permits the detention of children only as a measure of last resort.
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Human Rights Community — Preparing for the Next Major Crisis
Eamon Gilmore, the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, welcomes GC Human Rights Preparedness as innovative, important and essential.
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COVID-19 and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
In this contribution I would like to take look at the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of a UN human rights treaty body, namely the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which, because of its mandate, has a particular responsibility in this respect.
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Introducing GC Human Rights Preparedness
#BuildBackBetter is one of the hashtags from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It speaks to hope, and to history too.
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