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Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19 explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights, civil and political rights (CPR), economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), and freedoms around the world.
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Introduction: How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed the World from the Human Rights Perspective?Jędrzej Skrzypczak, Oscar Pérez de la Fuente 1. Accountability and COVID-19: The Spanish Perspective Oscar Pérez de la Fuente 2. Enforcement of Equality before the Law in Poland during the Coronavirus Pandemic Roman Bäcker and Joanna Rak 3. COVID-19 Entrepreneurs: Corruption and the Violation of the Rights of Health and Development in South Africa and Uganda Marianne Séverin and Hannah Muzee 4. New World Order after the Pandemic: Can “New Political Thinking” be Reinvented? A. Yu. Sungurov 5. Models of Human Resource Management in Healthcare Systems during a Pandemic: The Example of Poland Jędrzej Skrzypczak and Tomasz Maksymiuk 6. Smart Quarantine vs Strict Lockdown: Restrictions on Political Rights in Anti-Pandemic Strategies in the Czech Republic Maciej Skrzypek 7. Is Obligatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 Acceptable from the Human Rights Perspective? Tomasz Litwin 8. Freedom of Speech during the COVID-19 Pandemic Jędrzej Skrzypczak and Krzysztof Duda 9. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Changes in the Media Market and Information Pluralism Wojciech Adamczyk 10. The COVID-19 Pandemic as another Pretext for Information Control: Case Studies of Belarus and Ukraine Vladyslav Zinichenko 11. Grassroots Activity of Russian Citizens in Response to Worsening the Pandemic-Related Crisis of the State Anna Jach Conclusion: Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic Jędrzej Skrzypczak and Oscar Pérez de la Fuente
About the author
Jędrzej Skrzypczak is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Media Systems and Press Law in the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Additionally, he serves as the Chair of the Research Committee 26 on Human Rights of the International Political Science Association and Vice President of the Polish Press Law Association.
Oscar Pérez de la Fuente is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy in the Department of International and Ecclesiastical Law and Philosophy of Law and in the "Gregorio Peces-Barba" Human Rights Institute at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. He has written on cultural pluralism, free speech, and legal interpretation. He is Coordinator of the "Cultural pluralism and rights of minorities" workshop and is currently Vice-Chair of the Research Committee 26 on Human Rights of the International Political Science Association.
Summary
Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19 explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights, civil and political rights (CPR), economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), and freedoms around the world.
